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
Nifong is behaving sadistically, IMHO. It was the "closet" comment that really pinged my attention.
Thank you for the link. :)
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/435161.html
Duke actions
FALL 2003: Disciplinary incidents involving men's lacrosse players increase "noticeably," according to records reviewed by Duke's associate dean for judicial affairs. Ten players are cited in nine incidents involving underage possession of alcohol, noise violations, public urination and other incidents. Seven other incidents involving 12 players are documented in spring 2004.
SPRING 2004: Student affairs and athletics officials meet with campus police to discuss controlling "outrageously excessive behavior" of Duke students tailgating before football games.
2004-05: Residential coordinators in Duke residence halls cite "on-going problems with the block of sophomores who lived in a single pod of the Edens Quad on West Campus."
OCTOBER 2004: Stephen Bryan, a dean of judicial affairs, compiles the team's disciplinary record and circulates it among student affairs officials. The report reaches Tallman Trask, executive vice president of Duke. It is never discussed, however, at any meetings of top officials or student affairs administrators. The dean of students calls player conduct an "irritant." Administrators discuss the team's disciplinary record with Coach Mike Pressler. No student affairs officials or athletics department officials convey any "sense of alarm" to Pressler, and no extraordinary action is demanded of him.
LATE FALL 2004: Trask meets with Duke Athletics Director Joe Alleva to discuss the lacrosse team's disciplinary record. Trask tells him there were too many infractions but says they do not warrant drastic action.
MAY 2005: Eddie Hull, dean for residential life and housing, bans the lacrosse team from use of East Campus residence halls after the end of the school year after a documented case of player misconduct in the Southgate residential hall. Pressler suspends two players from post-season play.
JUNE 2005: Pressler sees a summary of his team's written disciplinary record for the first time at a meeting to discuss Southgate misconduct. Trask pressures Alleva to get the baseball coach and men's lacrosse coach to help tone down raucous tailgating before football games, a tradition the teams are credited with helping to start. Alleva discusses tailgating with Pressler and grants Pressler a three-year contract extension after advising him of his team's "problematic disciplinary record."
JULY 2005: Pressler initiates a meeting with Bryan and asks Bryan to notify Pressler and Senior Associate Athletics Director Chris Kennedy whenever a lacrosse player is cited for any infraction. Between then and Nov. 14, 2005, Bryan sends e-mail notices of charges filed against eight players. Pressler gets no more e-mail from Bryan after Nov. 14.
APRIL 2006: Pressler is asked to note, on a list of nonsuspendable charges prepared by Bryan in October 2004, which incidents he was aware of and which ones prompted him to take disciplinary action. Pressler was "largely unaware" of most of the incidents, according to his annotations. Of the incidents he was aware of, Pressler mostly ordered extra running as punishment.
SOURCE: REPORT OF THE LACROSSE AD HOC REVIEW COMMITTEE TO DUKE UNIVERSITY
From article subhead: "'It Was Almost Like She Went Eenie, Meenie, Miney'"
jaw on desk. I believe this subhead is supplied by the newsagency; not the player. Fascinating.
I did study up close as much as I could about the Coach. It was my understand that he was "forced" out. I think he went to the mats for his players.
"It says they are model academic citizens -- they've been on the honor roll," Baker said. "But there as been underage drinking. There has been bad behavior."
Underage drinking? Is this professor thinking we're all too dumb to recognize that underage drinking is prevalent on every campus...even by non athletes? I think he doesn't realize how much this situation is hurting his University. He's now discrediting his fellow professors' investigation.
Again, as I've said earlier -- the house at 610 Buchanan is TEENY. And there were HOW many people at the house? A lot. The strippers were the show. And somehow.. no one would notice the alleged activity in the TEENY TINY BATHROOM?
No way.
Nailed. YES, these boys were "framed" from the very onset.
Duke has hired a PR firm to help them with "handling" this situation.
It was a "death" hug. With NIFONG now as DA, and if the case is tried in Durham (which it SHOULD NOT BE), you don't think the usual cabal won't go after the Defense? They will.
They'd better get busy
"And Duke stepped up its game, retaining Burson-Marsteller, a global public relations firm that has helped polish the reputations of some of America's largest corporations.
"They brought in a bunch of people who have been essentially training groups of 10 to 12 administrators, faculty and students to talk to the media. They've been pre-positioning these people to latch on to the TV crews coming through," one source says.
"Butch" Williams graduated from the North Carolina Central University in 1976, and received his Juris Doctor degree from the North Carolina Central University School of Law in 1979.
Kerry Sutton, earlier in the case, notably passed on a chance to criticize Nifong.
The interviewer on TV.. said it sounds like you don't really have a gripe with Nifong and Sutton replied she hopes he sees the light in this case and does the right thing.
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Well her client was not indicted, so her ass kissing paid off, didn't it?
Since 1990, Mr. Williams has taught sports law and trial practice as an Assistant Professor at North Carolina Central University.
Much as the Fruit of Islam goons were brought in the Courtroom to send a message to the OJ jury.
Keep your head in the sand. Denial serves NO purpose at all and one wonders about your agenda here on this thread.
Like D.C., the citizens of Durham will have the justice they have earned with their vote.
"Butch" Williams, the lawyer who hugged Nifong, is currently an assistant professor at NCCU.......Would that position and his representation of one of the LAX students be considered a conflict of interest?
Ah, if only the rest of the world was as intelligent as you and your student.
Buffy, or is it Muffy, so glad your student just loved those visits to Nana!
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