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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No, at the time Bill Clinton wasn't quite yet Notorious Big. and she had a legitimate bit of political lobbying to be had as a businesswoman with her State AG. She had some reasonable expectation of a more refined character than some white face Gangsta. Her judgement could have been better, but it is a world of difference -- or used to be, maybe -- between asking the State's highest law enforcement official to your hotel room to discuss policy matters, and asking NC State's lowest street trash to your boy's club house to strip and dance in a most lewd manner (and without male escort-bouncer). Is that distinction understandable enough to you?
They used the broom instead of their tinkiwinkies.
Have a good trip! :)
" Anyone watching Rita tonight? "
The AV's father says the AV confessed to him that she was actually raped with a broom-thus the absence of DNA.
The audio on this part wasn't too clear, but, it sounded like the AV told her father that she was required to perform oral sex on all three attackers.
AV spent a week in a mental unit " for nerves" in 2005.
Wendy Murphy went beserk -screaming "that of course it was a broom !! "
Other attorney on panel ridiculed the broom story, said that rape indictments are for penises , not brooms.
We were hysterical the other day suggesting a broom theory. Someone is reading FR. LOL
Is that what's called a woody?
Condoms on brooms?
Bedknobs and Broomsticks?
One broom, two brooms, three broom? Where are the brooms?
Orally raped with a broom?
She's made some very intemperate remarks on this case. You can bet the defense follows the media, and looks for actionable statements.
ROFL again the broom re-appears!
We are going to find out she has a history of a serious mental disorder...I can feel it in my bones.
Did they take turns with the broom, or what?
This contradicts what she told the DA when she ID'd the "perps" 100%, 100% and 90%.
Does a broom leave dna? Why waste the taxpayers $ if that is the premise?
Slivers?
I caught Wendy Murphy's "performance" this evening.
When I used to read about remedies used in medieval common law, I wondered to myself, "what could they have been thinking?" Now I must say I am beginning to understand.
the "Scold's Bridle or Brank":
A scold was defined as: "A troublesome and angry woman who by brawling and wrangling amongst her neighbours breaks the public peace, increases discord and becomes a public nuisance to the neighbourhood."
But Roberts called Colin the skinny one. I would think it would be the broom.
After being shown the pictures in a sequence of PowerPoint slides, the document adds, the woman said she could identify the two players indicted April 17 with 100 percent certainty. She picked out Reade Seligmann as the attacker who forced her to perform oral sex and Collin Finnerty as the second man to rape and sodomize her.
She said she also could identify with 90 percent certainty the first man who raped and sodomized her. This attacker has not been arrested as of today, though District Attorney Mike Nifong said at the beginning of the week that he was looking to make a third arrest.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4107190
You think she's manic because she's carrying a full class load?
That's twelve hours a week - minus coffee breaks.
Only if it was a wood broom.
" This contradicts what she told the DA "
Nifong told Abrams that she could not see if her attackers wore condoms, because they attacked her from behind and she was fighting for her life.
Nifong also told the media early on that because of the stripper lifestyle, it wouldn't surprise him if the attackers wore condoms.
I expect Nifong to indict O-Cedar tomorrow.
I am aware what"good" we hear about her is spin and it is what those close to her want us to think she is.
Personally,I think she is a skank, a lying skank at that.
But some of her behavior can only be described as crazy. She has contradicted herself in the most obvious ways. A five year old can keep track of their lies better.
Just wondering out loud.
O Cedar makes your life easier!
BTW-wonder if Nifong is sh!ttin' bricks yet?
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