Posted on 05/10/2006 11:24:25 PM PDT by OakOak
By John Stevenson : The Herald-Sun jstevenson@heraldsun.com May 11, 2006 : 12:20 am ET
DURHAM -- Tissue found under the fingernail of an exotic dancer who claimed she was raped at a Duke University lacrosse party may match a player who was there, several well-placed sources said Wednesday.
Analyzing the tissue, scientists concluded it came from the same genetic pool and was "consistent" with the bodily makeup of one of 46 lacrosse players who gave DNA samples for testing, the sources said.
At the same time, scientists ruled out a possible match with any of the other 45 students, according to the sources.
If accurate, the fingernail tissue match would offer the first DNA evidence potentially linking the dancer and an alleged attacker.
But because a complete DNA pattern was not obtained from the tissue, it was not possible to match it with the nearly 100 percent certainty that DNA results usually offer, the sources added.
The dancer told police she clawed at three attackers as they raped and sodomized her for 30 minutes during the March 13-14 lacrosse house party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
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Exactly. There is so much to be questioned in re AV, and what's been going down in Durham for a LOT of years.
I remember some weird stuff went down in NY too. Appears NY was hiring "criminals" for their PD. The bad cops were shaking down dealers for a share in the "money". All done under "preferential affirmative action" and "quotas".
And dig this: Something Like the current RAPE SHIELD LAWS: wherein you cannot ASK someone about "former criminal convictions".
"Not just a receipt form the ATM...a video!!"
Nancy Grace is a nut.
Very true. Usually felony arrests occur without interviewing when the arrest takes place while the crime is in progress. Otherwise, they are investigated, meaning determining who the suspects might be and ascertaining their whereabouts during the time the crime was committed, unless there is sufficient evidence to get an arrest warrant without it, such as fingerprints, video, eye witnesses, etc..
I think Nancy Grace broke her record for mis-information in 1 show.
She stated why would a woman tear off her $60.00 nails and throw them on the floor.
1) I look up the Press-on Nails.. I saw them for sale (20 - TWO sets) for $5.57
2) She conveniently neglected to mention that the Photos show her entering missing at least one nail and one where most of the polish was gone.
3) She didn't mention the finite life span of those nails. When they are done, they're done - and they come off easily at that time. #2 indicates the nails we're at the end of their useful life when she entered 610 N. Buchanan.
Nancy Grace does NOT belong on TV.
Nancy Grace also said the Timeline fits the Accuser's story?
Huh? What the hell is she talking about.
Exhibit A: Reade Seligmann her 100% ID
It's irresponsible to let Nancy Grace go before a Camera.
It will be the same results.
Well, that's what I meant. i hope that Reade's attorney is looking into the circumstances under which this warrant was generated, activated, reviewed for due diligence, and then served. If the cops had proof that Mostafa knew these women or was related to them or was known to have worked with them before in a criminal activity, they would still have to have some probable cause showing he was involved with them in THIS crime. Someone could have pled guilty and given him up in exchange for a light sentence or one of Nifong's famous probation deals.
The crime took place in 2003, but I am still not sure when the warrant was issued (Yale Galanter said 2003, but I'm not sure he wasn't just talking about when the event happened) and when it was activated. The reason I am suspicious is because Mostafa doesn't seem to be hiding from anyone and, in any case, if he's a licensed cabbie, even NC must have some sort of permit renewal process cabbies go through periodicially as a public safety measure, so the warrant should have been served long ago if it had been issued and activated into their system contemporaneous to the shoplifting case, either way you cut it.
Well, I did a minute of research and learned the AG is a dummyrat, so there will be no ethical oversight from that agency. That leaves the state bar and the judiciary.
He said it was "rootless."
I got ya. I guess I was adding that the state has learned more about the crime since the warrant was issued (a conviction and admission has occured). State agencies are known for not updating their databases or following up..
I think the only difference is that Nifong is spinning the second result as a match. He hoped for more markers from the second test and didn't get them. If he'd known that going into the second test, he would have spun the first set of results on the fingernail as a "match." It's typical rat procedure: it doesn't matter if something is true. We'll just say x=y and that's it, rational thought and scientific principles be damned.
It also occurs to me that he had the first set of results back before Mangum "identified" the suspects, so Nifong and others knew who had a few matching markers on the one nail when the photo line-up was run.
I don't think anyone on Fox (H C) knows that there was an admission and a conviction in the Cabbie case.
Wish they would spend some time researching.
"Look what we can do to the cab driver.." He may still be trying to get one to turn.
But this would probably have just been a local warrant. It might not have been submitted to a state-wide system. I also expect the cabbie licensing is done by the city or county because I doubt if one needs a special class license (issued by the state) to operate a cab. Further, if one of the other shoplift defendants had named Mostafa as an accomplice, there is no logical reason why they wouldn't have picked him up, prosecuted him, and cleared the case.
Something just isn't adding up. If Mostafa was a cabbie in Durham then, and is a cabbie in Durham now, and has been all along, he wasn't hard to find and, even if they didn't get around to serving the warrant, it should have been discovered during a cabbie permit renewal. It just makes no sense that they would clear part of the (shoplift) case and not the rest of it when you've got a suspect easily located and also needing permit or licensing (assuming NC requires that).
And Governor Easley is utterly "silent" on this matter. Where's the State AG? Hmm?
Has Ryan McFadyen been cleared of rape charges?
No argument here. I'm just saying I think the admission and conviction of the person the Cabbie was driving carries more weight than when a warrant was issued.
I believe initially they did issue a warrant for him, that wouldn't be surprising if they were investigating the crime and it was unknown to authorities whom did what at that point.
The authorities NOW do know what happened and there's an admission and a conviction - so, that alone, to me, makes what Nifong has done an outrageous abuse of power.
DiFong is starting to remind me of "Moose"...just plain pro-black for political reasons and "just plain stupid".
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