Posted on 04/18/2006 3:26:57 AM PDT by Mad-Margaret
Was Jesse Jackson there? Does he have any way of knowing what really happened?
Were the people demonstrating in front of the house for the last five weeks there?
Was the stripper's father there? Yet he has been on TV making statements, and I don't hear you going on about how inappropriate that is, to be all over the TV defending her. You presumably allocate him that right, but the father of two young men whose crime apparently was to be members of the lacrosse team and present that night does not have that right, because those boys were obviously exhibiting trashy behavior.
I don't hear your concern that Jesse and the population of Durham are making racist statements and drawing unwarranted conclusions. Where is your concern about that?
I'd say it was black opportunism.
Then I'll just have to contact the ghost of Jim Valvano to tell him of your support of Duke. :-)
Lighten up, would ya? Too much coffee today?
The Sheriff's Department picked them up, NOT the Durham Police Department.
So they avoided that little "chat" we all know they get from the officers who pick them up.
:-)
Superior Court Judge Ronald Stephens sealed a manila envelope containing the indictments shortly after the grand jury finished its business Monday. The judge cited a state law that requires everyone involved in a case, including witnesses, to keep the indictment secret until a suspect is arrested.
Lighten up??
Not good I would feel ................... but little of this "publicity" would have seen the light of a good day without this weird D.A.
You MIGHT have to alternate positions of the mop & bucket... you know, rear door one day, bathroom a day later... but it's not too hard to move the bucket. You can do it as you get a refresh on the coffee and get back on FR;)
STOP FEEDING THE TROLLS!
That just means the document was filed with the court, but not signed until the 12th. There is nothing unusual about that. Judge's usually don't sign documents until they are filed unless it is and emergency and then they are filed just as soon as they are signed.
Assuming N.C.'s like California, our first indication would probably be them waiving the arraignment. I think they'd go for the prelim, 'cause they'll pin down the DA further, and they've got a solid chance of getting it kicked on a motion at the end. Any idea what the NC speedy trail definition is? It's usually X days. Bet you whatever the limit is, the first day of the prelim will be after 5/2.
YOI!
Uh oh. The Finnerty house is located in a neighborhood of million dollar houses. He MUST be guilty. /s
I can't believe that no one leaked.
So that's really why the police pulled that stunt at the dorms last Thursday? They were trying to find out who was at the party on the eve of the GJ hearing? It really WAS desperation!
Next court date is set for May 15.
And the speedy trial thing is done on a case by case basis, but it's 60 or 90 days.
And the clock started ticking today.
"What about the e-mails from one of these young paragons of virtue concerning skinning a black woman??"
That email may be a sting....
http://time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1184007,00.html
Thirteen days after the election, huh? How convenient.
Actually, they were in church - the entire team, praying
ZULU, I'm disappointed at your uncalled-for sarcasm.
Since the beginning, the students have said that half of the players had left by the time the strippers arrived.
Some of them took cabs home, some of them might have used ATMs at the time that alleged rape took place.
It's quite possible that the stripper identified two players who had already left the party by the time the strippers arrived.
I think Finnerty has proof he wasn't there. First, he could have avoided appearing in court this morning, I think I heard, as Seligmann did, but there he sat looking relaxed. Then this CNN article shows Finnerty and his lawyer calmly walking by reporters. I heard Seligmann left out the back. If either of these guys who were picked out with absolute, 100% certainty is shown to have been elsewhere, then it destroys any other id the accuser made imo.
http://www.cnn.com/
That's only because you don't live in the state of Washington. Just wait until you see what I will be posting tomorrow; my declaration of probably cause for my citizen's arrest of the chief justice of the Washington State Supreme Court on May, 9, 2006, at 1:30 pm.
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