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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These guys did what most rich, poor, and middle class guys and gals do in college.....if they're sociable. They study hard and party. That's all a part of growing up. Sure, they might do some "stupid" things. And someday, when they're a little older, they recognize that.
Unfortunately, these guys invited the wrong girls to their party.
And the only bores are people who criticize and accuse when they don't know what they're talking about!
Good evening, everybody. I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you to being with us tonight. Tonight, a quarter-century-old murder case that went cold, now red hot in an Ohio courtroom. Father Gerald Robinson actually wears his priest`s collar every day to his murder trial.
But first tonight, a Duke multiple rape suspect in even more hot water on a separate case of assault, a severe beating meted out near a local D.C. bar. And is the Durham DA set to charge 16 additional Duke lacrosse players for criminal behavior as a result of the night the student-turned- stripper says she was raped and beaten? And tonight, we are taking your calls.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This incident has been grossly mischaracterized.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think, ultimately, kids have the responsibility and accountability. Student athletes have to be responsible and accountable for their behavior.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is not and has not been charged as a bias- related allegation. I want to make that clear.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fact is, only two of them now are the ones that are charged, and all 46 have been sort of colored, as if all of them had, in one way or another, been engaged in this kind of activity, whether or not some of them might have been at the place or not. I`m just troubled by that.
You're saying most DA's would take over an investigation from the police, hold some 70 public interviews on the case, and fix the ID process so that only a lax player would be picked? It's apparent that you haven't done your homework.
Absolutely not.
I guess that's the difference between us. I'm proud of my children every second of every day. Do I think they never make mistakes? Of course not! They're as human as I am. My challenge is to help them recognize mistakes and as my children become adults, they help me as well. I am blessed.
Nancy doesn't give up easily does she? BTW Megan Kendall repeating the AV's father's claim his daughter won't proceed. But I'm not quite sure the father remembers his story from one moment to the next.
Common with mine.
So people who can't do crap with their own lives take pleasure in seeing the destruction of people who can.
LOL Something like this? "How was school? Fine. How was practice? Fine. How was the dance? Fine. Anything special happen today? No, not really." LOL
Right. Yet you describe them as the "good" one and the "bad" one?
What are you doing talking to my son. Stay away from him. :)
LOL Something like this? "How was school? Fine. How was practice? Fine. How was the dance? Fine. Anything special happen today? No, not really." LOL
LOL...get used to it...my now 24yo still does it...if you ask a follow-up question on the same subject he accuses me of *freaking out*........but when he does want to talk, I'm the one he comes to...
"And the only bores are people who criticize and accuse when they don't know what they're talking about!"
Wouldn't that be "boors"? And I do know that guys were arrested and charged with rape and kidnapping because they were accused by a stripper that they hired.
NC has lost a lot of manufacturing jobs we our unemployment rate is lower than the national average so we're doing just fine.
Well, I purposely watched her last night, and she compared this case to OJ Simpson's, Robert Blake's, and all sex offenders who killed their victims, both adults and children. And then she had Wendy Murphy there agreeing with her!
They are a disgrace! Geraldo is no better.
While she was talking, I was thinking of this post by Howlin, and I had to laugh.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1620385/posts?q=1&&page=751
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