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Rape Accuser Had Photo ID'd Possible DNA Match
NBC CHANNEL 17 ^ | 5/11/06

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.


TOPICS: Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: daysofourlives; duke; dukelax; durham; thedukesaga
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To: maggief

Oh my? Never saw those posts before.

Since the DNA is known to police, someone with a serious record where they would take DNA?


901 posted on 05/12/2006 6:52:44 PM PDT by Peach
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To: BossLady

Crytal's Mother of the Year Award is null and void. She and Nifong will share a dual Liars' Award w/the Press.


902 posted on 05/12/2006 6:54:00 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: TexKat

Single source DNA that doesn't match any players. I think we were right all along and she had sex before the appointment with lacrosse players and she didn't get paid or she got hurt and decided to blame it on the rich white boys.


903 posted on 05/12/2006 6:54:06 PM PDT by Peach
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To: Swanks

"Nah. If its rich white boyz from Duke its a criminal case. If its a Durham city offical then its personal medical records."

I hope you're wrong, but I think you're right!


904 posted on 05/12/2006 6:54:58 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: toldyou

Maybe it was JJ redick's? ***only joking****


905 posted on 05/12/2006 6:55:17 PM PDT by Perdogg (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem)
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To: maggief

I thought Hugs and Kisses directed us to a black fraternity.


906 posted on 05/12/2006 6:56:38 PM PDT by Publius22
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To: maggief

<< Yes, a reporette blurted out some name during the presser. >>

Perhaps someone with good ears can give another listen to that at WRAL website and figure out the name?


907 posted on 05/12/2006 6:56:51 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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To: Howlin; GAgal; Protect the Bill of Rights
We heard....that the campus police contacted the guys at the house...said there had been a rape accusation at the house and the police would be contacting them....the police then contacted them....they gave them everything.

As to how the transfer took place...did not say. Did say that they guys who supposedly committed this crime alleged by the FALSE ACCUSER, gave the police this stuff instead of disposing of it.

908 posted on 05/12/2006 6:57:09 PM PDT by Rheo
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To: Peach

Could very well be, Peach.


909 posted on 05/12/2006 6:57:11 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: toldyou

You watch. Nancy Grace will be back to Aruba on Monday. Her feminazi guests will be elsewhere damning President Bush after his speech at 8pm.


910 posted on 05/12/2006 6:58:25 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Carolinamom

"Aren't they putting up some kind of statue on the NCCU campus commemorating her?"

It will probably be legs up.



911 posted on 05/12/2006 6:59:06 PM PDT by toldyou
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Smoking in the girl's room tonight..I was puffing with you!




Woo-Hoo We're all SMOKIN'!!!!!!


912 posted on 05/12/2006 6:59:14 PM PDT by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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To: toldyou

LOL! Some enterprising business man will be hawking key chains w/a single white high-heeled shoe to commemorate this "event."


913 posted on 05/12/2006 7:00:34 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: toldyou

LOL....legs up and for years the contemplating question will be....where is that other damn shoe?


914 posted on 05/12/2006 7:00:54 PM PDT by Rheo
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To: GAgal

"Is that consistent with someone that knowledgeably and knowingly committed a rape?" Cheshire said. "That they would leave fingernails that were ripped off a person in a violent struggle in their trash can after they're told there's an investigation and that police were going to come to their house, and when the police do, they give them the fingernails?"

The "single male source" who matched the genetic material found on the vaginal swab take from the victim is named in the report on the second round of DNA results, and "is known to the Durham police department," Cheshire said. He declined to give the man's name or comment on his relationship with the accuser.

"There is no indication that this man should have his name dragged through the mud," he said.

http://www.nbc17.com/news/9209919/detail.html


915 posted on 05/12/2006 7:02:07 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: sissyjane

Some suitable background music.....Phil Harris singing "Smoke, smoke that cigarette." LOL


916 posted on 05/12/2006 7:02:24 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: SirJohnBarleycorn

The reporters have the name.


917 posted on 05/12/2006 7:03:02 PM PDT by maggief (and the dessert cart rolls on ...)
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To: Carolinamom; All

Anybody who missed it can see some of the press conference on Nancy Grace in a few minutes.

(And my damn washing machine is NOT spinning.....now instead of hot sheets, I'm gonna have WET sheets!)


918 posted on 05/12/2006 7:03:05 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: maggief
"There is no indication that this man should have his name dragged through the mud," he said.

Attorneys choose their words carefully.

919 posted on 05/12/2006 7:03:26 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: maggief

That's what I remember too, but it seems odd to me. That they didn't clean the bathroom or hide anything points to innocence. That they would fish the nails out of the trash can without being directed to seems rather unusual.


920 posted on 05/12/2006 7:03:59 PM PDT by GAgal
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