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Posted on 05/11/2006 9:17:59 PM PDT by TexKat
DURHAM, N.C. -- A Duke lacrosse player whose DNA may match tissue found under the fake fingernails of an exotic dancer who claims she was raped was identified in a photo lineup with 90 percent certainty, sources tell NBC-17.
The Durham Herald-Sun reported Thursday tissue found under the accuser's acrylic fingernail 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 paper cites several sources and said scientists also 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.
90 Percent Certainty
Now, NBC-17 has learned that the player is not one of the two already accused in the case -- Reade Seligmann, of Essex Fells, N.J., and Collin Finnerty, of Garden City, N.Y. He is, however, a player that the alleged rape victim picked out in a police lineup with 90 percent certainty.
The 27-year-old North Carolina Central University student told police she was beaten and raped by three lacrosse players while she performed at a March 13 team party. She said she clawed at the players in an effort to fight them off.
Never Applied?
Defense attorneys claim, however, that nothing about the reported possible DNA match means anything to the case if you look at the type of fingernails, where they were found, and if you look at a picture of the accuser's hand shortly after she arrived at the party.
According to defense attorneys, police found four stick-on acrylic fingernails in a trashcan at 610 Buchanan Street, the house where the party took place. The tissue connected to the possible DNA match was found under one of those fingernails.
But defense attorneys said the third player accused lived at the house and it is no surprise that trace amounts of his DNA could be found inside his own trashcan. They also said they don't believe the type of fingernails that were found -- the kind that are applied with an adhesive strip -- actually ripped off during an attack. They don't believe the fingernails were ever applied and they say they have pictures to prove it.
NBC-17 has seen a picture of the dancer's hand at the house when she performed her dance routine. It appears that long, fake fingernails were on some of her fingers in that photo, but not all of them.
Other photos show what defense lawyers believe is red fingernail polish on the walls of the house and on the railing outside the house. They believe the accuser was painting and applying her nails while at the party.
Defense attorneys admit that none of them have seen the DNA report the Herald Sun article is based upon, but they said if District Attorney Mike Nifong has the DNA report, their clients are entitled to see it.
Accuser's Father Responds
The accuser's father called reports of a DNA break in the case long overdue.
"I wasn't surprised to hear that. I feel like we should have learned it before," he said.
Kim Roberts, another dancer who performed at the party where the alleged attack took place, paid an emotional visit to the accuser's parents on Thursday.
"It was real emotional -- she was crying, my wife was crying. She said that she was sorry she left (outside) the house before my daughter did," the accuser's father said.
Authorities said they would know what the DNA shows by early next week.
Best to just go to Duke campus and stay off Durham streets. If you want a feel of a college town go 7 miles away to UNC-CH and hang around Frankin Street.
What's in RTP in July, I live down here and am in Biotech.
Agreed. People who think this case will be dropped just because there now is a DNA match indicating sex with someone else, haven't been paying attention to Nifong.
This case will go to trial, unless the AV herself refuses to testify.
Now you're talking!
This thing needs someone to take it up a notch to where Nifong feels some pressure. If you can help make that happen, that would be one heckuva public service, from what I can tell.
Pharmaceutical seminar. I am switching jobs and have an intense 3 week training session at RTP.
He needs to be filling out forms to collect unemployment.
Semen: I'm still way behind but asked several times why no one has said where she was BEFORE she got to the Duke's house.
Hey, I'm not just going to die!
LOL! And being denied compensation.
Oh yeah, NG was all over this last night, drawing out her words with great drama --
"and this is poTENNNNtially a BOMMMMBBBshell that a Duke player's DNA has been presumptively identified under the fingernail of the victim (with many dramatic pauses for effect, so that the viewer can absorb the horror of the poor victim's plight and the sheer evil that is a white male Duke lacrosse player.).
She had very little to say about it tonight after that press conference, didn't she.
Maybe for her, right now, opening Al Capone's safe would be a good career move.
I learn things on FR that I never see anyplace else!
The 'buzzzzzzzzzz' you heard earlier was your reference flying right over my head. :)
<< why no one has said where she was BEFORE she got to the Duke's house >>
The Durham police know where she was (according to an investigator that O'Reilly interviewed) and BY NOW, with all these crack national investigative reporters on the case, undoubtedly at least some of them must have an idea as well.
However, other than Megyn Kendall and Dan Abrams, the other reporters have been slanting their coverage to favor the AV, so I wouldn't be surprised if there are reporters who know that information and are just sitting on it because it is not flattering to the AV.
"LOL....legs up and for years the contemplating question will be....where is that other damn shoe?"
Over a power line in Durham....above Nifong's office!
it would be interesting wouldn't it, knowing how many other rape cases are thrown together as fast as Nifong threw this one together.....
how many other women have complained of rape only to have their cases turned down by Nifong for lack of evidence?......
Nifong took this politically correct face only to win election and only to show what a bully he can be when the adults HAVE to listen to him...
I'll bet Nifong has a severe inferiority complex and guess what?....its going get worse....
Does NC have a pimp registry?
I'm 90% positive that the infobabe asked about a name that began with "L".....Landon, Lang,....
Long dong...
Under a concrete slab in the Meadowlands under Giants Stadium, right next to Jimmy Hoffa
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