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.
Another thing, Peach. Nifong will only talk to a very select few local reporters. He doesn't run his mouth nonstop like he did at first.
That's a good question, maybe one of them was JJ Redick (joking of course).
Remember Kim said she was told one of the attackers was a "baseball player".
Nifong has destroyed any possibility of a conviction.
Absolutely! This whole episode resembles a novel by Tom Wolfe, whose characters are primarily motivated by vanity. God, wouldn't Wolfe love that detail about Nifong getting fashion tips from Kim's lawyer?
He's been caught too many time offering assurances that didn't pass the smell test. I'm suspicious of this tox test too and that a date rape drug was used. If it was, and they can prove it, why wouldn't they shout it from the rooftops? Because as it stands now, I would think the majority of people understand these boys have been railroaded and Nifong is all about politics.
All Nifong said is that it was a possibility, and this was at the begining of the case, and we all know Nifong shot off his mouth before ANY investigating was done by the police.
I've just been rereading the classical definitions of Occam's Razor. I think it applies here, too...
I am 90% sure the defense said the same.
From NBC-17 news:
"Defense attorneys also noted that two people at the party who aren't on the lacrosse team weren't included in the photos shown to the woman. Those two people also have never submitted DNA samples to authorities for testing, attorneys said."
Guilfoyle's citing Newsweek story on fox now...
Newsweek reporter trying to spin that the Lax kids spiked drinks..
"He's been caught too many time offering assurances that didn't pass the smell test. I'm suspicious of this tox test too and that a date rape drug was used. If it was, and they can prove it, why wouldn't they shout it from the rooftops? Because as it stands now, I would think the majority of people understand these boys have been railroaded and Nifong is all about politics."
He could be saving it...an october surprise of sorts...I don't think so, but just a thought, it seems like he would leak it just for the politics of it.
Reporter citing her interview with Kim. Good source, LOL!!
Wow. I wonder why they were not tested.
Not unless they were not white.
"entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"
http://www.nbc17.com/news/8694922/detail.html
But attorneys also noted that three people at the party aren't on the lacrosse team, and none of them have submitted DNA samples to authorities for testing.
Lotsa whistling past the graveyard by Guilfoyle. "He's gotta have something to pull out of is hat."
Yeah, right...
Newsweek reporter trying to spin that the Lax kids spiked drinks..
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Yea, strippers never do drugs on their own./sarc
How is the DA going to prove whatever is in Mangum's system was given to her, and not taken on her own!
Why, those LAX players are guilty!! I mean, they're rich (strike one), they used the "n" word (strike two) and they drive SUV's (strike three)!!
Nifong has destroyed any possibility of a conviction.
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Yep his two best pieces of evidence would have been:
1. DNA, taking DNA samples from the whole team with no probable cause could cost him all the DNA if any LaX players were guilty.
2. Victim ID, poor photo array techniques could cost him the victim IDs.
But this is not about conviction. He does not care about the stippers nor the LaX kids. He cares about himself and his reelection chances. He is irrationally reducing his reelection chances, but he probably thinks differently.
We'll know he's over the edge when he starts rattling the little steel ball bearings in hand. Heh, that's an idea. Maybe we should send him some bearings to use...
She is just fugly....no doubt about it. Catfish face....
Oh right....the DA has something BIG! ROFL
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