Joe Cheshire, a defense attorney for Duke University lacrosse players at the center of a rape investigation, said the latest tests show no conclusive match to any of the lacrosse players' DNA. (ABC News
Posted on 05/13/2006 9:30:51 AM PDT by SkyPilot
May 13, 2006 — The second round of DNA test results in the Duke University rape investigation show "no conclusive match'' to any lacrosse players, defense attorneys said, but a vaginal swab of the alleged rape victim produced DNA from a "single male source'' — a man not on the lacrosse team who did not attend a March 13 party that was the site of the alleged rape.
Joe Cheshire, a defense attorney for Duke University lacrosse players at the center of a rape investigation, said the latest tests show no conclusive match to any of the lacrosse players' DNA. (ABC News
Defense attorney Joe Chesire declined to identify the mystery man or his connection to the alleged victim, but ABC News' Law and Justice Unit has learned that the unnamed source of the DNA is the alleged victim's "boyfriend," according to her mother.
ABC News is withholding the name of the man because he is apparently not a target of the investigation. Records indicate that Durham, N.C., police gave the "boyfriend'' a cheek swab to collect DNA on May 3, ABC News' Law and Justice Unit has learned exclusively.
It is unclear if or how the first DNA tests missed what appears to be the only foreign genetic material found on the alleged victim's body, defense attorneys said. Two Duke lacrosse players were indicted more than two weeks before the cheek swab was taken from the "boyfriend."
It is also unclear whether the alleged victim had sex with the "boyfriend" the night she claims to have been raped by three Duke lacrosse players. DNA experts tell ABC News that genetic traces of semen can remain in the body up to six days after intercouse.
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And hence we had the Oscar winning song "It's hard to be a pimp". LOL
The other question you were going to raise: how many other different semen sources were there in various places that have not been matched yet.
Can they sue the prosecutor/county for mishandling the case or false arrest?
I've asked this question before and never really understood the answers. LOL
I would think they could sue the city; police departments get sued all the time. Doubtful they could sue the DA personally but his office.
That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. (/bill cosby mask off)
If someone concocted this diabolical gambling scheme, why not pull it off Duke Basketball or Miami Football?
Two month ago I didn't know what lacrosse was.
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xo did tell us to "Follow the DNA" back in late April before the boyfriend was even tested. Just a lucky guess on his part?
Hmmmmm. I wonder if the writing staff over at NCCU's "Campus Echo" newspaper will write a follow-up to this dograg of a story that ran in last month's issue. My 5 year-old nephew has better journalism chops.
http://www.nccu.edu/campus/echo/archive11-0506/o-omokaiye.html
Did she disclose this at the hospital?
How high does the stake have to be for a pro to seek a serious change in the odds by getting a player, or maybe even a whole team, pulled from the season?
(BTW, this is based on the assumption that the pros will bet on anything).
I do not know.
I'm sorry, I don't understand the question?
I think you are either drunk or joking. Since it's too early to be this drunk, I'll take it as joking and not dignify your question with a reply.
I guess my joke was too subtle.
He wasn't "reporting" today; he was doing a live remote from a CAR SALE today.
Duh--smacking self in head...;>)
Speaking of gambling, the pros say folks are betting on the DNA results.
http://www.gambling911.com/040806news.html
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DNA tests that attorneys for Duke University lacrosse players say will exonerate the students had not been received by District Attorney Mike Nifong's office late Friday afternoon, despite Nifong's earlier statement that he expected to have the results this week."
She kind of has a Mariah Carey/King Kong thing going on there.
I don't know, but I know she would have been asked.
I find it doubtful, she hasn't told the truth about anything else.
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