Posted on 05/01/2006 7:51:52 AM PDT by don'tbedenied
Accused Duke lacrosse player Reade Seligmann's attorneys want Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong thrown off the case.
Today, they filed a legal motion specifically asking for it.
"DA Mike Nifong neglected his duty as a prosecutor to seek the truth and a fair prosecution," the defense's motion reads.
The motions were filed just 24 hours before Nifong's Tuesday election in which he's fighting to keep his seat. Nifong is being challenged by former prosecutor Freda Black and private lawyer Keith Bishop
Why do they want to retest it?
If a date-rape drug was used, why wasn't that charged?
Their "why we exist" link is UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
And the photo of Malik? I suppose it's supposed to make him look like Yul Brenner.
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There was this female in my ole state, and this is exactly why she filed a million complaints. She was a dribbly little weasel with too much, too high self-esteem.
I wonder if anybody will cover the "major town hall meeting" live at 6 p.m.?
I'm gonna be looking for it, that's for sure.
The local news at 5 barely gave it any coverage at all.
I can't get over the fact that she's only spent 3 weekends in jail w/all the illegal acts she's responsible for.
The thing to do is to find out from the Creedmor police why they didn't or couldn't go forward with the complaint and, depending on the answer, put them on the stand.
I don't think she hates men necessarily. I think she views them as chumps, as does Kim Roberts. In fact, I think Roberts is worse.
There Is No New Black Panther Party: An Open Letter From the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation
In response from numerous requests from individual's seeking information on the "New Black Panthers," the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation issues this public statement to correct the distorted record being made in the media by a small band of African Americans calling themselves the New Black Panthers. As guardian of the true history of the Black Panther Party, the Foundation, which includes former leading members of the Party, denounces this group's exploitation of the Party's name and history. Failing to find its own legitimacy in the black community, this band would graft the Party's name upon itself, which we condemn.
Firstly, the people in the New Black Panthers were never members of the Black Panther Party and have no legitimate claim on the Party's name. On the contrary, they would steal the names and pretend to walk in the footsteps of the Party's true heroes, such as Black Panther founder Huey P. Newton, George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, Bunchy Carter, John Huggins, Fred Hampton, Mark Cark, and so many others who gave their very lives to the black liberation struggle under the Party's banner.
Secondly, they denigrate the Party's name by promoting concepts absolutely counter to the revolutionary principles on which the Party was founded. Their alleged media assault on the Ku Klux Klan serves to incite hatred rather than resolve it. The Party's fundamental principle, as best articulated by the great revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, was: "A true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." The Black Panthers were never a group of angry young militants full of fury toward the "white establishment." The Party operated on love for black people, not hatred of white people.
Furthermore, this group claims it would "teach" the black community about armed self-defense. The arrogance of this claim is overwhelmed by its reactionary nature. Blacks, especially in the South, have been armed in self-defense for a very long time; indeed, the spiritual parent of the Party itself was the Louisiana-based Deacons for Defense. However, the Party understood that the gun was not necessarily revolutionary, for the police and all other oppressive forces had guns. It was the ideology behind the gun that determined its nature.
Because the Party believed that only the masses of people would make the revolution, the Party never presumed itself to be above the people. The Party considered itself a servant of the people and taught by example. Given massive black hunger, the Party provided free breakfast for children and other free food programs. In the absence of decent medical facilities in the black community, the Party operated free medical clinics. In the face of police brutality, the Party stood up and resisted. Considering the overwhelming number of blacks facing trials and long prison terms, the Party developed free legal aids and bussing-to-prison programs.
The question the Foundation raises, then, is who are these people laying claim to the Party's history and name? Are they reactionary provocateurs, who would instigate activities counterproductive to the people's interests, causing mayhem and death? Are they entertainers, who would posture themselves before the media, and, according to numerous sources, with empty guns, to spin gold for themselves? Are they, given the history of their late-leader Khalid Muhammad, a group of anti-Semites like the very Ku Klux Klan they allegedly oppose? What is their agenda?
Conditions for blacks in America today are worse than when the Black Panther Party was formed in 1966. Blacks in the main continue to live in poverty; disproportionate percentages of blacks die from AIDS and cancer, as the black infant mortality rate continues to be double that of whites. There is a desperate need for liberation agenda. The Black Panther Party unarguably set the example, espousing principles and a history that certainly should be embraced by all those still struggling for freedom. Rather than appropriating the Party's name, however, groups that purport to represent African Americans ought to follow the Party's true historical example. In the absence of such commitment, the Foundation denounces the usurpation of the Black Panther Party name by this questionable band of self-appointed leaders.
For further reading on the Black Panther Party, please visit our website at www.blackpanther.org. Books by and about the Black Panthers can also be purchased online through this site. Suggested reading includes Revolutionary Suicide, To Die for the People, War Against the Panthers, This Side of Glory, and A Taste of Power.
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Let's see Huey Newton tell David Horowitz: "The Black Panthers were never a group of angry young militants full of fury toward the "white establishment."
"Like, yeah, Huey. Uh-huh" sez I while doing the neck jerking thing.
I got an appointment I gotta attend to this evening. I miss all the fun.
But naw, probably laugh, as a family, regularly over "how they can scam the system". I get to occasionally overhear these conversations from whites, blacks, latinos, ad nauseum. They just think they are "alllll" *that*.
What they are is low-lifes with no love or respect for their fellow man.
People like this create the climate of corruption, add to it, and wallow in it while blaiming everyone else for their own wicked and indecent acts.
My ole ma would have called them poor excuses for human flesh.
I suppose they want the junk under nails retested. Quite a clever move, I think. I bet they are some anxious men somewhere in Durham (though definitely not lacrosse players).
the red neck version of what your 'ma' said is "They ain't had no raising."
Oh! I like that. I intend to adopt it. My mum was a Brit; would get that pained expression on her face when she'd hear about someone not trying to make this world a better place.
Yep, they threw a press conference and nobody came! ROTFL.
CTV reporter saying defense has requested to retest the DNA.....and they want her cell phone records
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I wonder why they would want to retest the DNA, considering the results were good for them?
I hope there's not a runoff.
Does that mean the defense has seen the new results and are questioning them?
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