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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and then she disappeared right after writing the poem about the DNA.
If she was missing some fake nails when she arrived, why wouldn't you want the DNA from her natural nails too?
There are more so called date rape drugs than rohypnol, and they have different effects. GHB, ketamine, etc.
(None of which I'm familiar with because my partying daze were before the rave scene. The only "downer" drug I knew of then were post-quaalude script opiods like perocodan and darvocet. In the 80's the focus was on uppers and psychotropics)
Well, since she joined 4/22 and is already gone.... Maybe she never really existed?
Maybe Hannity is lurking?
He should lurk here, but he doesn't like Freepers very much..
Some people, desperate for attention, like to pop in an investigatory thread and play at being mysterious. Happens all the time.
Welcome to Ameriﻯa!
Don't mean to be dense, but I have no clue what Shango is.
Daughter of quidam...
Yep.
But the panel noted that you don't want a reluctant witness in a case that's already in trouble.
I'm now seriously wondering whether this IS going to be how this case ends: that Crystal bails and her supporters claim that a crime was committed but couldn't be pursued because of the racist elite LAX players and the media.
and then she disappeared right after writing the poem about the DNA
Plus they'll claim the rich white boys had lots of lawyers to get them off on technicalities and plus they slimed the victim and she just couldn't go through with it. That's how I see it ending...
Maybe you didn't follow the Aruba threads. Shango posted infrequently, in rhyme.
Have you looked at the links are mystery freeper has posted? Puzzling.
that Crystal bails and her supporters claim that a crime was committed but couldn't be pursued because of the racist elite LAX players and the media.
I peersonally do not think it will ever go to trial, especially with these two defendants....but, what do I know...I never stay at a Holiday Express.....lol
Ahhhh! The men in suits. Were they blue or grey suits? I can't remember.
The only thing I can think of, is he MAY have a date-rape drug tox report, and he's banking on that and his witness statement.
Other posters from the area have said that Durham juries make the OJ jury look smart. He may be able to get away with it, but it doesn't make it right IMO.
I'm very familar with the use of GHB/rohypnol as a recreational drug. My party days were the mid-to-late '90s scene in San Francisco and Seattle.
If it ever gets that far, there will be a change of venue. Count on it...
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