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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.
The heels must be round.
Did you have to throw in the 30 years? I got it right away and now I feel old.
I better clarify, before the UNC folks jump all over me, a "loose" woman was often referred to as having "round heels" because one push and she's on her back.
...one of UD's readers, is fascinating background material on the Landon School contingent among the Duke lacrosse players. No one knows to what extent, if any, the large number of Landon grads on Duke's disgraced team were involved in what happened in Durham. But a culture of cheating, cynicism, and entitlement is clearly already well-established at Landon.
Well if you also get "Locomotive Breath" then you're guilty of being old.
It won't slow down. ;)
"Under a concrete slab in the Meadowlands under Giants Stadium, right next to Jimmy Hoffa."
LOL!
Ah ha! You know! And I thought he was at the bottom of the Hudson.
I meant no way to slow down...
Have you picked out your rest home yet? I'm putting my decision off to the last minute.
First this:
The first thing I would like to say about that report is that I think that it is very interesting, interesting to note for the ones of you that care to note these things, that this report was leaked by the district attorney`s office, according to press people who have told me specifically that they leaked it to them, several days ago. We only received this report at 5:00 o`clock. I received it at 5:02 this afternoon by fax. I find it interesting that it was leaked that way and faxed to us in a way that was apparently done so that we would not have the opportunity to respond to it. That`s the first thing.
Good man, Cheshire -- call them on these games!
Second:
Now, let me say that to you again. Even though they said earlier that there was no semen taken from the vaginal swabs of this woman, we now find that they did retrieve male genetic material from a single source, a single male source, from vaginal swabs and that that source has been named in this report, is a person known to the Durham Police Department, but is not any of the Duke lacrosse players.
Ulp. Two parts: 1). Why didn't DA Nifong come clean the first go round. 2). Who is the "DNA-linked" SOURCE the Durham Police knows?
Oh my.
I'd say at this point, the unnamed sperm donor is a "Material" witness. Is it a crime to "be silent"? It can be and I'll bet that in this case, it is.
Didn't somebody in an earlier thread turn up a male name in connection with the website of her employer BunnyholeEntertainment? If that's her manager probably worth a check, but the guy on the website may be further up the "corporate ladder" LOL.
One point I've been unclear on is whether the AV normally lives with her boyfriend or with her parents? Do her two kids normally live with her parents or with the AV (and perhaps her boyfriend)? If there was an address associated with the AV other than the Charles St address one could check for the names of the residents against "Landon" or "Lang" or something similar.
He looked like the cat that ate the canary... with that weaselly ex-San Francisco DA being the canary. Greta saying the case is all but over.
injustice keeps people fired up.....
This is kind of a hit piece on a school. I don't condone cheating, but it really isn't fair or rational to judge a school on this kind of evidence. I'm a bit on the old side, but I saw cheating in high school. It was mostly confined to one class with an incompetent teacher. He made up for it at the end of the year with a cheat-proof final exam.
Know that you know -- you don't know, know what I mean? -- fuggedaboutit.
which is the rightful thing to do...
it also means the police believe that that sexual act was consenual....
too bad Nifong didn't have similar reguard for the LAX team instead of making rapists out of everyone of them ....
I'll take the one that has the Bose system in every room.
Correctamundo. Exactly. When you've been genuinely "raped", there is no real need to ponder the proverbial Shakespearian question: "Have I been raped?" -- YOU KNOW IT.
you know that Jimmy is a reported homosexual, don't you?....nothing wrong with that , but I don't respect him....he overprosecuted the "dog people" in San Fran when their dogs attacked and killed a young lesbian woman.....
I think he was acting probably like Nifong in this present case....taking a politically correct posture no matter what....
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