I'm watching you LB!
Posted on 05/03/2006 5:48:12 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
They stated, "Every year since 1989, in about 25 percent of the sexual assault cases referred to the FBI where results could be obtained, the primary suspect has been excluded by forensic DNA testing. Specifically, FBI officials report that out of roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases since 1989, about 2,000 tests have been inconclusive, about 2,000 tests have excluded the primary suspect, and about 6,000 have "matched" or included the primary suspect."
The authors continued, "these percentages have remained constant for 7 years, and the National Institute of Justice's informal survey of private laboratories reveals a strikingly similar 26 percent exclusion rate."
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I'm watching you LB!
What a poisonous toadstool she is.
I was completely serious. A man who is truly uninterested in sex can refuse to participate regardless of his state of intoxication.
"Alleged victims were, in effect, raped all over again in the courtroom
Is hidious. SEcondarily, if you as a property owner get "robbed", and the insurance investigator begins asking questions like: Were the doors and windows locked? Is this like being "thefted" all over again?
I'm disgusted. Words do NOT equal rape. Rape is an action. Words are speech.
Lastly, as for example, Kathleen Parker has pointed out: Women who have made previous accusations (false or otherwise), under rape shield laws, WILL NOT HAVE THIS EVIDENCE BROUGHT UP.
No. I do not like rape shield laws.
Nor do I like double standards. Our Laws demand that women be treated like men in every regard except in "punishment and penalties" phases of social discourse, law, the courts, and overall "accountability".
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm....
bttt
"When I was 8, the girl next door STOLD a cookie!"
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i'll add that unreport to my file of unreported crimes. soon, we should be able to get to the bottom of this!
"I was completely serious. A man who is truly uninterested in sex can refuse to participate regardless of his state of intoxication."
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the issue of legal consent concerns a woman who may have WANTED to have sex at the time, and who appeared to consent to sex, but who was intoxicated.
because of the intoxication, it could be argued that she was unable to give legal consent. (i.e., not in a rational state of mind where she could give consent.) later, the man could be charged with rape because she did not give legal consent.
presumably this same scenario could happen with a man. however, it is unlikely a woman would be charged with rape.
IOW, we could call it the "playground taunt files".
I don't know what you are thinking, BUT I'll tell you what I think. I think that the feminist socialist legal beagels have culled records from all over the nation of "priors" by women to use in their frothy over "zillions of rapes but the women don't report it".
Using the rape shield laws to protect "women" who make repeated accusations WHILE using those same stats to allege that women "don't report rapes". Double-bind.
In addition to, of course, classroom polling/women's groups' data types of "numbers".
By Paul Bonner and Brianne Dopart : The Herald-Sun pbonner@heraldsun.com May 5, 2006 : 10:12 pm ET
DURHAM -- Allegations of rape by a Duke University student after an annual Last Day of Classes party last week aren't drawing District Attorney Mike Nifong's office into the investigation yet, Nifong said.
Students drank and inhaled smoke from a marijuana vaporizer at a celebration held on the second floor of Keohane Dormitory the night of April 26, according to the affidavit from the search warrant.
The alleged victim told a Duke University investigator that she had been drinking since noon, and that she was far more intoxicated than she'd ever been when she met the fellow Duke student who she said raped her.
The woman told police she was also getting high from the marijuana smoke wafting through the dorm room, when the male student attempted to kiss her "deeply" several times. When she protested that she was a lesbian and had a girlfriend, he told her he could make her straight by having sex with her, according to the warrant.
The students continued to talk and then walked to an on-campus concert.
The male student told police that after the concert he walked the alleged victim to her dorm because she seemed "very intoxicated." He took her to her dorm, he said, to put her to bed. Both students swiped their access cards at the alleged victim's dorm at 10:46 p.m.
Once in the dorm room, the male student told police that he washed the woman's feet because they appeared dirty. She asked him to help with her nightgown, but he denied taking off her bra and panties. After he "tucked her in," he left his number and AOL instant messenger ID and left her dorm.
The next morning, the woman woke up and found that she was completely nude, although she told police she never sleeps without underwear. Convinced something was wrong, the woman went to Duke University Hospital where a S.A.N.E. nurse found a "milky fluid," consistent with semen, in the alleged victim's vagina.
Nifong said Friday he learned about the April 26 alleged rape from television news reports Thursday. He has since spoken with Duke police investigators, he said.
"It appears to me that the Duke police are handling the case the way I would expect it to be handled," Nifong said.
Nifong will await a final report from Duke police before deciding how to proceed, he said. That's how most reported rapes and other crimes are handled, and usually only after police make an arrest, he said.
"That's the way it happens 95 to 98 percent of the time," he said.
That is in contrast to his office's involvement in the lacrosse rape case, Nifong said. In that case, the Durham Police Department investigated a woman's report that she was raped by three lacrosse players on March 13-14 at an off-campus team party where she was hired to perform as an exotic dancer.
After three weeks of investigation during which Nifong's office obtained a court order for DNA samples from 46 team members, two players were indicted by a grand jury on charges of kidnapping, sexual assault and rape.
"The Duke lacrosse case was very different from the way we normally get rape cases," Nifong said. "The District Attorney's Office is normally not contacted during the course of an investigation unless the law enforcement agency needs some special kind of assistance," such as obtaining a court order, he said. "That has not been the case in [the latest] investigation."
Duke police did obtain a search warrant from a magistrate to search a Keohane dormitory room Wednesday and obtain DNA samples for testing. The investigation appears to focus on a single suspect, Nifong said.
"It's a different situation if you have a focus on a specific individual, as opposed to a specific address," he said, referring to 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., where the lacrosse party took place.
A recent report made by Duke police states that 24 "forcible sex offenses" were reported to campus police between 2002 and 2004. The report does not specify what characterizes a forcible sex offense.
While rape is, sadly, a very real crime, far too much of it is just "morning after regret" and/or revenge.
DURHAM, N.C. Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong says he doesn't expect the Duke lacrosse case to come to trial before next spring.
That will set up an intense and lengthy stand-off between sides that have refused to budge.
Defense attorneys sound like Nifong has no case to pursue. They say the two players charged with raping a stripper at an off-campus party in March are innocent. They say the only evidence connecting them to the accuser should be thrown out.
Nifong, who's been emboldened by his victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary, vows to press ahead.
He says a sexual assault occurred in the house and he hopes to charge a third player. Nifong has repeatedly denied that politics played a role in pursuing the case.
Duke Lacrosse Players Move Out Of Home
DURHAM, N.C. -- On Friday, two men were moving things out of the house where an exotic dancer claims three Duke lacrosse players raped her on March 13.
Three lacrosse captains lived at the home on Buchanan Boulevard, but moved out after the rape allegations. One of the men said Friday that he's a friend who was trying to help the players get their belongings.
I'm with you there. Not in surprise tho. Eventually, this truth had to emerge in public. No matter how hard "politicians and their allies" have tried to silence it and silence those who tell it.
It's Drive-By Cotton Mathering and his allies in the gossip alleys known as the MSM and special interest support.
What a grevious miscarriage of justice, and stains Durham. Not Nifong; he's still useful to those with moneyed political interests. Durham has elected its own "community interest" executioner. Who in their right mind would visit Durham, now.
A mere speeding violation turning into some witchunt case that intent was purposed to "murder" others with a vehicle; a late payment on taxes: Willful intent to Defraud Durham. There is no end in sight when Pandora's box has been opened.
And, it has been opened in Durham.
This is a very sensible editorial, TexKat.
Was appalling to me. It was all one sided. And I think this "educator" Neal (at Duke) has some serious singular obsession issues.
It is good and right to use the "teachable moment" (ick) to prepare males for the biases against them. But there is not a SINGLE admonishment rendered to females. This is disgusting. Obviously, the author of this article, and the non-coach quotes parts (like the Educator...) see women as fairywomen: Not real; Encouraged to be a bunch of Blanches waiting for their Streetcars to arrive. Men are to be held accountable; females are not.
Got it.
Obviously, the only ones getting any valid values out of this "situation" are the Athletes. All else are being encouraged in their madness and obsession delusions about reality.
Paraphrased: Yes, we *know* the Duke Players are guilty; but can the University survive this?
Okay, SUV's kill people. Now we are left to wonder if a building housing students and academics will fall to a rumble. A smack of lightening, a bolt, will strike Duke or not. We get to judge it. "heh heh heh"
What a sly, snarky article. Pitiful.
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