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.
Think about this case: it has everything.
Sex, race, supposed violence, class envy, sports, style (Lacrosse clothes selling like wildfire), adult entertainment (lapdancing, strippers), law, town-gown, gender politics, tobacco, science (DNA), to name a few.
Heck, it even evolves the enviroment: peeing outside.
Yeah, I didn't date much within my own circle.
The old Mc Donald's paper cup recycled as a spittoon going everywhere with us was oh, so appetizing!
Some pro-rape elements are even speculating that since some time lines put her at the house at 11:30, she was raped between 11:30 and 12:00!!!
Yeah, brutally beaten, choked and gang-raped, but "the show must go on" and dancing at midnight!!
Yeah, right!!
Ugh, that's not a visual I want to contemplate on a Sunday.
Frankly, I think Kim could have beat the crap out of that whole team.
If you ask me, Kim is the prime suspect for having started this entire thing.
But notice SHE thought Crystal took HER money.........LOL.
Maybe Kim got her money out of Crystal's purse.
It's the first court day; convenient, huh?
I think Kim started the whole thing as a payback for the "racial slurs".
Wonder what she thinks of her little plan now? She's been humiliated and she's too stupid to even know it.
I note with hilarity that Kim Roberts attended Carolina. :-)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/18/entertainment/main681703.shtml
Could be. I think Kim should have remained a shadowed mystery. The song "Getting to Know You" wasn't written with Kim in mind.
If only Erskine Caldwell or Will Faulkner were still around to write this novel.
When I read articles like this, using phrases such as "lacrossetitutes" and generally sneering at the team and other students, without fail the first thing I think is that the article is written by some guy or girl who wasn't in the "group" in high school or college, and uses their job to even the score.
Tom Wolfe has already written it!
It's still getting funnier! Lady Kimmy thought little princess stole her money! No honor among thieves!
Multitasking?
Well, Evan Thomas was the one who sat on the Monica story so long, Drudge scooped him.
Howlin, we'd be disappointed if Newsweek reformed itself for just this story, wouldn't we? It's in their blood to write it this way...
That Slate column seems pretty irrelevant if as reported they were digital camera photos where the clock is set by the cell phone company.
Frankly, I think she's ruined for the prosecutor's case.
That being said, I'm dying for the defense to call her.
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