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."
To say nothing of the fact that the DA actually broke the law by not having pics of people who could not have possibly done the deed, who weren't in town on that day/night, etc.
This law was actually brought about in the 60s when the police would have an alleged, black, accused, suspect in a "line-up" with 4 whites, for example. In those days the black suspect, whether he was the actual person who had committed the crime, would get fingered in the line-up.
Or if the suspect was described as tall and slim then the suspect was put in a line-up with four, short, fat people.
I think you get the idea but the original intent against those kinds of procedures was to make sure that blacks weren't fingered just for being black.
She would have picked out a partygoer in any case. This isn't like a rape accusation against a stranger. She was at the party and she could have recognized at least three LAX players in any lineup, although she might have made a mistake.
The fact that she made the ID on April 4 is interesting. By that time, were the websites up that had the information on the players? Is it possible that her third ID was one of the players that was out of town? Is that why Nifong won't release it?