Some facts about Bishop: He is a graduate of the NCCU law school, is a member of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity (some on here have speculated the AV may have performed at a frat house prior to the Duke party) and he seems to have had some minor issues with the law.
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060430/2068479.asp
She coulda been a celebrity
4/30/2006
By KATHLEEN PARKER
Nobody wants to play second string, and exotic dancers are no exception to the rule. Which becomes a problem when, by fate or misfortune, you're cast in the media drama du jour as . . . The Second Dancer.
Always a stripper, never a star.
Not if you're Kim Roberts, dancer at the Duke University lacrosse team party last month when the other dancer hired for the event allegedly was raped.
Roberts wants, badly, for you to remember her name. Because, as it turns out, the worst thing that might have happened to the accuser may have been the best thing that ever happened to Roberts. Or so she apparently hopes.
For a few days, it seemed as though no one would notice or remember Roberts. She didn't see anything, after all, and for a while she said she didn't believe the accuser's story, according to defense attorneys for the accused Duke students. Thus, she faced the unthinkable - being un-famous, an un-celebrity. Un-known.
Suddenly, the divorced mother had a novel idea: It coulda happened. So naturally, she contacted a New York public relations firm.
In an e-mail to 5W Public Relations obtained by Fox News, Roberts wrote: "Although I am no celebrity and just an average citizen, I've found myself in the center of one of the biggest stories in the country. I'm worried about letting this opportunity pass me by without making the best of it and was wondering if you had any advice as to how to spin this to my advantage. I am determined not to let any negative publicity about my life overtake me."
It was signed, "The 2nd Dancer."
First off, never write an e-mail you wouldn't mind seeing on Fox News. Maybe Roberts doesn't mind, as those who pursue celebrity seldom concern themselves with the reason for fame, only the fame itself. And, of course, the financial rewards one hopes to reap. Roberts was clear on that score.
"Why shouldn't I profit from it?" she said when asked about her willingness to profit from her colleague's alleged rape - or the ruin of two young men who may be innocent. "I didn't ask to be in this position . . . I would like to feed my daughter."
I know we're not supposed to question a person's character these days. A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do and boys will be . . . no, wait, that's wrong. Girls are virtuous because they're stripping to feed their children; boys are evil because they will pay a virtuous single mom to strip. It's so confusing, isn't it?
Probably more to the point, Roberts' query to the PR firm, which has declined to represent her, coincided with her new slant on events that night.
"I was not in the bathroom when it happened," she told the Associated Press. "So I can't say a rape occurred - and I never will." Later, after her own criminal record was raised, Roberts said, "In all honesty, I think they're guilty . . . and I can't say which ones are guilty . . . but somebody did something . . . that's my honest-to-God impression."
Who wants this story? Do I hear $25,500? Anyone? The $25,000 figure isn't random - it's the amount Roberts was convicted of embezzling from a Durham, N.C., photo-finishing company a few years ago.
Coincidentally, around the same time Roberts was forming her new impression of what went down at the lacrosse party, a judge excused Roberts from having to pay a 15 percent fee to a bonding agent.
I can't say Roberts is getting favorable treatment for becoming a better prosecution witness. I was not in the lawyer's office when it happened. So I can't say a transaction occurred - and I never will. In all honesty, I think somebody did something . . . that's my honest-to-God impression. It coulda happened. Or not.
Orlando Sentinel
From your link:
In 1997, an assault with a deadly weapon warrant was never served. Bishop called it a misunderstanding with his former law partner.
And the candidate never served any time after he was arrested for resisting an officer and failing to stop in 1998. Bishop said Duke University police pursued him after he took pictures of a client in the hospital.
"I was trying to get to the Durham Police Department to save the evidence," he said.
http://www.alphaphialpha.net/alpha/today/committees.html
National Chairmen & Coordinators
Mediation and Arbitration
Keith Bishop
Are any reporters investigating police corruption in Durham or are they all too busy exposing the "lacrosse culture" at Duke?