Posted on 05/08/2006 1:57:24 PM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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A committee said Monday that Duke University administration was slow in addressing the alleged rape involving members of the lacrosse team.
It said key administrators relied too heavily on initial reports from Durham police that the alleged victim "kept changing her story and was not credible."
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It didn't surprise me that a very PC school like Duke would produce a committee report like this. An outsized concern about the "racial aspects" of the case and worry if a lack of diversity in the administration contributed to a failure to act sooner are par for the course there.
What interested me in the report was what very well may enable the players/families to sue Duke for damages:
"The players may been been lulled into a false sense of security about the events shortly to unfold and might well have sought legal counsel sooner had they been aware of the stakes. Some parents of the lacrosse players were (AND ARE) distressed by the failure of Duke authorities to alert the students and their families to the seriousness of the situation in the days immediately following the party."
Would the three team captains have participated in 25 hrs. of police interrogations on March 16 if they had had lawyers at the time? Not likely.
One of those captains, David Evans, apparently admitted to being at the party where alcohol was potentially available to underage players. For that honesty, he is now faced with a criminal record, as Nifong has rescinded his earlier misdemeanor diversion deal.
If I were his, or any other player's parent, I would be eager to punish the Duke administration, as their failure to advise me or my son as soon as this case came to their attention (Mar. 14) resulted in grave harm.
http://www.wral.com/news/9178286/detail.html
See, the black racialists despise Shelby. For the same reason they despise Ward Connerly.
Steele: It is a deal between the power hungry left and black leaders who care more about being thrown a bone and offering fake opportunity to their followers than they care about freedom, autonomy and excellence."
Socialists offer the "Plantation mentality". Work for us, and we won't whip ya. But if you ever try to leave our "plantation", we'll lie about you and hurt you in ways you can't even begin to imagine.
Emotional and Domestic terrorism.
Just because the people on this committee have Ph.D.'s doesn't mean they have any common sense. Yet somehow they think they know so much they can make these pronouncements. LOL
My favorite: The president should have been told the AV was black. Really? Based on her race he would have made different decisions?
Duke should start giving back all their federal money if that is the way the school is run.
You know that's something I can't figure out. Is the implication that the Duke admin was supposed to have been thinking that the rape was of a white woman, but hey, no big deal?
Unless Nifong can find a jury made up of 12 escort workers, he will have a hard time convicting anyone.
Disagree. OJ's jury wasn't comprised of 12 football players.
It certainly reads like that.
More on the AV's timeline:
Durham Police Department
Media Report 3/28/06
http://www.bluelineradio.com/610Buchanan.jpg
"Occur From Date: 3/13/06 23:00
Occur To Date: 3/14/06 1.22
Report Date: . 3/14/06 1:22"
Why were they investigating 3 males since she said that 20 males raped her? And that timeline doesn't comport with the neighbor's statement or the player's photos.
I don't see probable cause, preponderance of the evidence, clear and convincing, or beyond a reasonable doubt.
The timeline is not consistant with what Kim Roberts said either.
That's right; how terribly inconvenient for the DA. LOL
No, it does not. Where she was from 11:00 to 11:45, and earlier?
It also says not alchohol or drug related, and $2000 stolen.
Kim said she arrived at 11:50pm.
If $2,000 was stolen Kim probably took it from Crystal who got it from her one-on-ones earlier in the evening.
Do all "exotic dancers" have $300 camera phones? I thought she was a struggling working mother and student?
If this officer is making out this report at 1:22, just minutes after another officer said the AV was passed out drunk, who could possibly be giving her the information?
And if the AV was "drugged" as Kim would have us believe, how could she remember what type of cell phone she had and how much money was stolen?
And notice how drugs was indicated as N/A....
Some of this information we're getting just don't jibe... or would that be jive?
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