DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- Defense attorneys for two Duke University lacrosse players charged with rape are questioning the process by which the accuser identified her alleged attackers, a source close to the defense told CNN Friday.
Under the procedure, the accuser was shown images of the team's 46 white players and told they were people police suspected were at the party, the source said.
The defense will likely file a motion to suppress the identification because no pictures of non-team members were included in the presentation, the source said.
Legal experts told CNN that authorities would not necessarily be required to show pictures of unrelated people with pictures of the lacrosse players.
District Attorney Mike Nifong did not return a call seeking comment on the identification procedure.
So, the accuser was told the "pictures represented people the police thought were at the party". That is where they went wrong imo. They should have told her the pictures represented people who may or may not have been at the party. If she thought she could be caught IDing a police decoy or a mugshot of a burglar in jail at the time of the party, she may have been leery of IDing anyone.
I think by April 4, Nifong had been given a heads up by the SBI lab that DNA matches weren't found, and Nifong then pressured the AV to come up with IDs. Without those IDs Nifong couldn't have gone to NCCU several days later with his self-serving "As long as I'm here, the case isn't going away."