Posted on 04/23/2006 8:52:59 AM PDT by TexKat
DURHAM -- Results from the second round of DNA tests in connection with the Duke lacrosse rape investigation will not likely be available before May 15, District Attorney Mike Nifong said Saturday.
Nifong also denied an allegation by some defense attorneys that the second exotic dancer at the March 13 party where the rape allegedly occurred received special treatment from Nifong's office so she'd cooperate with the prosecutor.
Kim Roberts, 31, was arrested March 22 -- eight days after the lacrosse party -- on a probation violation from a 2001 conviction for embezzling $25,000.
The same day a grand jury indicted lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, a judge agreed to a change so that Roberts would no longer have to pay a 15 percent fee to a bonding agent. Nifong signed a document saying he would not oppose the change.
Soon after the rape allegation was made, Roberts told defense attorneys that she doubted the story of her colleague who told police she was dragged into a bathroom and raped. But in an interview last week with the Associated Press, Roberts said she thinks some players -- she's not sure which ones -- are guilty.
"It seems she is receiving very favorable financial treatment [from prosecutors] for what she is now saying," said Bill Thomas, a defense attorney for one of the lacrosse players who has not been indicted.
Nifong said Saturday that wasn't his motive in agreeing to change Roberts' bond from secured to unsecured.
"It's consistent with local bonding policy," Nifong said, when asked why he supported the change.
Nifong, who faces two challengers in the May 2 Democratic primary, attended a meet-and-greet with supporters Saturday at Joe & Jo's Downtown Restaurant and Pub, where he fielded a few questions from The Herald-Sun.
Nifong ordered the second round of DNA tests from a private lab after initial tests by the SBI crime lab in Raleigh failed to find DNA from any of 46 lacrosse players tested on or in the accuser, nor any of her DNA in the bathroom in which she said she was raped, sodomized, beaten and strangled for 30 minutes by three men.
Some defense attorneys had said they expected the new DNA test results last week.
Well, you do have a point........LOL.
Yeah we saw them play once. The TV photos don't do them justice.
He still has a lot of clout with the alumni; he's pretty well respected even by people who aren't Duke fans, of which I am one!
I think she could take at least a few of them!
Well-now I can't find the pictures--do you have a link?
Does this pertain?
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-725422.html
Stephens, the judge who sealed Monday's indictments, is the same judge, and a former Durham district attorney, who earlier sealed a warrant for Durham police to search a Duke dorm room -- a decision he did not enter into the public record and reversed the morning The Herald-Sun planned to seek a court order opening the documents.
Well if they ever play again I'll meet you at one of the games. No matter how mean and nasty she looks, I think you'd have to revise your opinion. Let's hope there's the opportunity to do that.
Pictures links:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1617550/posts?page=1013#1013
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1617550/posts?page=1015#1015
LOL. "Bucky" Waters, "Buck" Duke. I know the story of "Buck" Duke and his "Poor Little Rich Girl" daughter Doris. http://www.lib.duke.edu/archives/history/james_b_duke.html
They've been on here previously. I'm too lazy to look. There's a small one in the Newsweek article.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12442765/site/newsweek/page/2/
I'm looking at the one on the lower right hand. The one on the upper right hand is too dark to see but could settle the issue.
Most of the guys who play lacrosse in high school play football. Thry play it to stay in shape.
I seem to remember reading in a very early article that the other lacrosse team house was just around the corner from 610 N. Buchanan, just a couple houses away.
To my mind, the most likely reason for the DA to seek to seal the other search warrant documents is because making them public would jeopardize an ongoing police investigation, in a way that allowing the other search warrants to become public would not.
Here's some speculation: Perhaps the police found drugs at the second house. Perhaps even Rohypnol or some other date-rape drug. That may be why Nifong is "hinting" to Newsweek about a date-rape drug being involved in this case.
The DA/police may be trying to lean on the person in whose room or possession the drugs were found, in order to find out where the drugs originated.
Or it could be drugs were found, maybe cocaine or a large amount of cannibis, and the police have launched a separate ongoing investigation, unrelated to the rape allegations, as to drug possession and/or dealing.
I went and checked out the pictures again-thanks maggief-, and yes that looks like a garter belt to me.
Well, as a local, I would say it would be prudent not get involved with the local ~strippers~.
But as a general proposition, your statement falls on my ears as incredibly arrogant. If you read the Newsweek article, you may have noted the disgruntlement in the residential area around East Campus because Duke has pushed the hard partying out into the neighborhoods. I don't expect the folks in those neighborhoods are so charmed with Dukies pissing in their yards and running animal houses. I am sure, though, the Durham people are just too benighted to appreciate the subtle refinement of Duke youngsters.
(You pissed me off.)
What did she say about his exit from the coaching position? It happened just before I got there.
Thanks--Does the white garment look like a garter belt to you? It does to me, and I'm wondering what happened to the stockings that should go with it. Creepy stripper not wearing them, and they're not mentioned in the seized items from the house.
Thanks for the ping, Howlin.
It was a sensitive subject that wasn't brought up.
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