Posted on 05/22/2006 4:05:16 PM PDT by zaxxon
Lawyers representing one of three Duke University lacrosse players charged with rape want details about any toxicology tests performed on the accuser, asking in a motion filed Monday whether such evidence even exists.
"No such toxicology report, if it exists, was provided to the defense," wrote attorneys Kirk Osborn and Ernest Conner, referring to nearly 1,300 pages of evidence prosecutors provided to defense attorneys last week. The attorneys represent Reade Seligmann, one of three lacrosse players charged with raping a woman hired to perform as a stripper at a March 13 team party.
Seligmann's attorneys want a judge to order prosecutors to provide any reports "generated from blood, urine or other biological samples" collected from the accuser. In the motion, they cited a story published in Newsweek earlier this month that said District Attorney Mike Nifong "hinted" such tests would reveal the presence of a date-rape drug.
Authorities have said a doctor and specially trained nurse performed a physical exam on the accuser that found evidence of sexual assault. But the nurse who filled out a report on that exam indicted no toxicology tests were performed, according to the defense motion.
Nifong declined to comment.
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They must do things differently in NC. This woman has a history of alcohol and drug use. She still owes money to the court (and others) for trying to run over the cop, among other things. This incident happened when? 2001/2002? She had to do mandatory drug testing as part of her probation. Why is she not in jail for not completing her probation?? And while I'm at it, is the IRS going to investigate this liar's tax returns?
<< I suspect the money is the key element that caused her not to want to leave Kim's car and led to Kim trying to dump her at Krogers. >>
The cop said she was actually passed out when he first encountered her in Kim's car. Kim said she couldn't get any info from Crystal about where to drop her off because Crystal was passed out.
Are both Kim and the cop lying? Isn't the simplest explanation that Crystal was in fact passed out from the time the lacrosse player loaded her into the car until the cop first encountered her at Kroger? Doesn't that explain why Crystal didn't simply tell Kim where to take her or simply get out of the car when they pulled up at Kroger?
I thought I read somewhere??? that it was 36 hours before the police even interviewed Crystal.
Nifong probably did look over the documents being turned over, at least in terms of different major pieces. A subordinate would have prepared and checked the file for completeness first. Nifong was mandated to turn it all over. He's up against a good defense team, and it would be foolish to hold anything back because this team is going to find it out which would place Nifong in jeopardy, whether he intended to use it at trial or not.
You might want to read the criteria again, and think about her condition when the cops arrived at Kroger.
Was falling down the back stairs at the house and lying on the ground passed out (according to the lacrosse players) also "an act"?
<< You might want to read the criteria again, and think about her condition when the cops arrived at Kroger. >>
You might want to read the ESPN article with the interview of the source AT THE HOSPITAL, and think about her condition when the hospital personnel were observing her.
I know from personal experience that immeidately after a concussion you want to lie down and hang on tight to something to keep from moving, period. I've had a few in my younger days...
It would be interesting to know if any of the symptoms of a concussion were observed and noted in either of the examinations...
No, Mangum paid her fines and restitution when she pled out to the misdemeanors, according to her attorney at the time, Woody Vann. It's Kim who still owes a ton of money for her embezzlement conviction.
The IRS isn't likely to investigate.
And, with her condition as such, even if she straightened up somewhat by the time she got to DUMC, there would have been enough residual effect of drugs or alcohol that the SANE nurse, if doing her job right, should have wanted a urine test.
It would be interesting to find out if Crystal told the SANE person that she fell down the stairs or that some of the bruises are old. We don't know what the interview with the SANE person contained and/or if it was recorded.
It was 31 hours before she gave details of the rape allegations, and that was not made up by the press. When questions were first raised as to why it took so long for the police to execute the search warrant at 610 N. Buchanan, that was the explanation for the delay, as reported in the press, which explanation apparently came out of the police department.
Correct, that was also the city manager's evidence that the police were "taking seriously" the AV's charges... They "immediately" produced a search warrant right after they got her "finalized" statement on the 16th....
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