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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And why wait till now to get her story right?
I wonder if the ethics complaint could have been filed due to the "knock and talk" attempt?
Look at the slap on the wrist given this Durham cabbie who kidnapped and groped a Duke student:
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-737899.html
Isn't that bizarre?
Check out the cabbie's rap sheet:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1636586/posts?page=554#554
Not my friend. :)
Interesting.
Something's wrong with our justice system.
Well, think back to the beginning.
Nifong's many, many press conferences, his confident and bold talk, his demonstrations of how the crime occurred, his remarks about hooligans, etc., etc.
The media was biased because of this. Who would have thought at the time that Nifong ran with so little evidence?
Nifong's initial performance was so bold and cocky, and done so often, that you still have people waiting to see what Nifong has that will convict these guys.
This is at least part of the reason why some of the talking heads are clinging to hope that Nifong wasn't blowing smoke.
Not on your life, sweet cakes...
:-)
We will have to agree to disagree on this.
No, it is working just the way it wants to - self-perpetuating bureaucracy that consolidates and increases it's own power.
What, you thought it was there to protect YOU?
My guess is it's visa versa.
Her memories are pretty detailed as well.
Court records show that Kafi was allowed to plead guilty this month to only the misdemeanor, receiving a 60-day suspended jail sentence and 18 months of probation.
The kidnapping charge was not prosecuted, and an apparently unrelated allegation that Kafi took indecent liberties with a child was dismissed, the records indicate.
You know, when I read stuff like this, I become convinced it's just open season on white guys and everyone else gets a pass.
Scary, isn't it?
One of Tom Wolfe's points in Bonfire of the Vanities was that prosecutors in high crime areas like New York City get sick and tired of shoveling the same muck through the justice system, i.e., inner-city minority low-life morons, and long to instead prosecute that "great white defendant."
Anyone who was in New York City during the "Preppy Murder" case of Robert Chambers will remember that the media frenzy surrounding that case was indescribable. If I recall correctly there were over 1000 homicides in New York City that year (maybe even 1500), and yet this one case received vastly disproportionate media attention, as well as police and DA resources, compared to the other 1499 killings.
oops, I thought the post on the other website was yours. Now I see it was someone else. I was really surprised you would post something like that. LOL. Thank you for clarifying.
He probably would have received 2 years probation had he been a citizen.
Well, you get used to it after a while.
Just don't count on these clowns to protect you.
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