I can't get over how long they waited to search for that stuff. Heck, the forced the kids to be photographed for scratches and submit to DNA testing, even if they weren't at the party. What, the DA didn't think he could get a judge to order a search of 46 rooms right after the fake rape was reported?
Warrants sought personal items
Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann was arrested and charged April 18 with first degree forceable rape, first degree sexual assault and kidnapping in a case involving an exotic dancer who said she was raped at a lacrosse team party held in Durham.
Durham police on Tuesday night searched rape defendant Collin Finnerty's room for personal items belonging to his accuser, according to a search warrant filed today. They seized a news clipping and a seven-month-old envelope.
The investigators who visited Finnerty's room at Duke University's Edens dormitory the day of his arrest were looking for clothing, a shoe and other property, according to the warrant.
Pictures, which were taken the night of a March 13 lacrosse team party at which an escort service dancer says she was raped, show the accuser wearing only one of her white, high-heeled shoes.
The warrants also show that they were looking for photos and video recordings from the party, as well as e-mail, computers that might contain evidence proving a rape, kidnapping and sex offense.
But, according to an inventory made public this afternoon, they seized only a New York Times article about the case and an envelope sent to Finnerty in September from a woman with a Boston College address.
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