AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!
It happens to me too.
Posted on 04/25/2006 2:34:48 AM PDT by abb
DURHAM - District Attorney Mike Nifong plans to reinstate misdemeanor charges against a half-dozen Duke lacrosse players, saying a March 13 party where a woman reported a rape broke the deals that the players made with prosecutors.
Nifong's decision could affect players who, before the party, had entered agreements in which prosecutors would dismiss the cases if the players performed community service and stayed out of trouble for six months or a year. Among the first to have his charges reinstated was David Evans, one of the team captains who lived at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., the site of the party in which lacrosse players hired two women from escort services to dance. One of the women told police that she was raped by three men in a bathroom.
Two players, Collin Finnerty, 19, and Reade William Seligmann, 20, were charged last week with first-degree rape, first-degree sex offense and first-degree kidnapping. Their attorneys say the men are innocent.
On Monday, an attorney for Seligmann filed a motion seeking information that would help attack the credibility of the woman, the only person, according to the defense filing, who says a rape occurred. The motion seeks information about the woman, including criminal charges, mental and emotional problems the woman has suffered as well as social services, probation, child protective services and victim's advocacy records.
Today, Finnerty is due in a Washington court where prosecutors in an assault charge are considering whether to revoke a deferred prosecution agreement similar to those affecting other players in Durham.
According to court records, 16 players were charged in the past three years with misdemeanor charges in Durham including noise violations, public urination and alcohol violations. The deals placed the men on probation for either six months or a year.
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Reverend Jesse Jackson told ESSENCE that during a conversation in which he called to pray with the parents of the alleged victim, he suggested that the family call Willie Gary and gave the mother the necessary contact information. The father of the 27-year-old alleged victim called Willie Gary’s office to follow up on Reverend Jackson’s suggestion.
http://www.essence.com/essence/lifestyle/takeastand/0,16109,1186586,00.html
I'm speechless.
That's extorion. A thug of a man trying to goad a frightened college student and/or parents into telling the story the thug wants heard.
A fellow stripper ...
Shouldn't that be 'sister stripper' ?
In any case, what frightens me the most about this case is the prospect, should this go to trial, of 'Jury nullification'. Think OJ and the preponderance of DNA evidence. Here we have the opposite.
Also, the DA 'shopping' for DNA evidence kind of removes DNA or ANY physical evidence from the case altogether.
The Lynch Mob is gathering...
Heard on FOX this morning it is so bad, sometimes she screams when she sees a white man on the street.
Give me a break...........
Reverend Jesse Jackson ..........
I called it last night, just by looking a Willie's web page.
He reminds me of Johnny Cochran, but with more bling ...
http://www.williegary.com/
Sowell sanity ping.
Jackson helped hook up Gary with Coca-Cola employees filing a $5-billion discrimination suit against the company a few years ago. When Gary sued Burger King Corp. for $1.9-billion, his pal Jackson served as the mediator who helped settle the case in 2001. Gary said he's never made more than about $25,000 off any of those cases. What pays for his "Wings of Justice" 737, his Rolls Royce and the gold fixtures scattered across his mansion, Gary said, is his work for wealthy white clients - not the low-income African-American clients Jackson sends his way.
"My overhead is a million dollars a day. You know the most we could get out of those (Pinellas) school district cases? Two hundred thousand because of sovereign immunity (restrictions on lawsuits against government)," said Gary, whose track record includes a $500-million verdict against a funeral home chain, a $139-million verdict against Anheuser-Busch, and $240-million against Disney.
"When Jesse calls me, I don't even want to pick up the phone. There's one thing I know when Jesse calls - there's no money there."
http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/14/State/Reverend__lawyer_team.shtml
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!!
It happens to me too.
Here is the comment section which follows the Essence article:http://www.essence.com/essence/showallmessages/0,18603,1186586,00.html
It is very resassuring to see some Essence readers see the accuser for the liar she is, and "starving fully-clothed student" pegged JJ's "scholarship" to a Pure-T.
This kid's gonna get hanged twice.
Confusing sentence. If no one knows how to reach her, I suppose the relatives are the ones getting threats from alleged "white supremacists"? And I do mean "alleged". If someone called me and told me they were the Governor of NC, should I believe that person?
Is she "profiling"?
Sowell said it So Well.
This has now gotten 'way beyond guilt and innocence. Or simple legal justice. It's now a full blown good vs. evil at the same level as Abu Gharib, etc...
Profiling happens. And when the legal profile fits the ACTUAL and PROVEN stats, who complains "profiling"? Nah. The whole Political Pinata is continuing...
he definitely has this pegged dead on.
A very clever post, SirJohn. And so true.
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