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.
Maybe the DNA is from Kim. Weren't the two rolling around on the floor for a little bit?
LOL - I don't know how much more of this I can take. That is just TOO funny! Hey Kimmy - you ARE stupid!
You so stoopid that when you was borned the doktor slapped yo momma!
Isn't May 15 AFTER the primary election?
Not only that, but the attending physician was so stupid that he threw away the baby and kept the afterbirth.
I think the pictures are authentic, but the DA will look for any way to undermine their legitimacy. I doubt anyone has really tested that, but I suspect this is why the cameras, computers, and Ipods are being scrutinized. I have never in my life seen such an effort to convict someone when they have an alibi and no matching DNA or any other evidence, just the word of two known felons with a motive of greed.
Lacrosse wasn't big where I grew up--it's a Yankee thing--but I ran with the same type of crowd in high school and college and the guys were big time into Skoal and Red Man. Of course, college students now aren't my contemporaries, but I know the type and it's not news to me, at all!
The problem with any theory of altering photos is that the photos basically track the statements of the two strippers and independent witnesses.
When I was in college, the Skoal and Red Man users were the Rodeo Team! LOL!
So they did do some toxicology tests and I'm sure there is no evidence of a date rape drug or we'd be hearing about it.
LOL
I agree, I just want everyone to know what the DA is looking at.
I'll be doggone, that does surprise me.
I think it's more the "kick" without the stink of smoke they liked. Gotta keep those pearly whites sparkling and worry about the jaw and throat cancer, later.
I can guarantee none of my friends were on the Rodeo team. :-)
So Bill Thomas says Seligmann made eight different cell phone calls between 12:05 and 12:24 when he got in the cab. How is Nifong going to justify having a 100% certain ID of Seligmann since April 4, and not knowing what his phone records showed? Just when would Nifong say in any of the timelines could Seligmann have raped the false accuser?
Yes. And it's also the day after graduation. There is some speculation amongst Duke students that the authorities want to get the students out there before they end this debacle.
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>>>When I was in college, the Skoal and Red Man users were the Rodeo Team! LOL!<<
Here in the boondocks of Oregon, it's how one can tell if the driver of a pick up is married.
Both sides of his truck will have a 'Montana Flame Job".
Isn't that what we'd all do after being raped? Go back inside the house to get our shoe? /s
Precisely. Nifong would HAVE to reveal this to stop the PR bloodbath he's now in...
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