Posted on 06/06/2006 9:41:05 AM PDT by Perdogg
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An exotic dancer who performed for Duke University lacrosse players the night of the alleged rape of a fellow dancer said in an interview the students behaved drunkenly, shouted racial epithets and made her feel unsafe.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.myway.com ...
The photos will come in because they have time stamps on them, the time stamps ostensibly being the point. But they can also be used to show the women did not seem or act fearful.
Cheering crowds in Baghdad at the Iraqi Prime Minister's announcement, per U.S. military confirmation that it is indeed Zarqawi.
Al-Jazeera also reporting the killing of Zarqawi.
Thanks for the great news!!!!!!!!
Just got up for some water and a quick FR peek...
Now it is couch & TV!!
KILLED???
Thank you Jesus!!!!!
It is party time. I'll bring the pork!!
One more thing...
F U Murtha!!!!!!
I'm very interested to see if the Medical report that's out there affirms the strangulation that the AV reported. The beating too.
I suspect the Medical report does not support the strangulation. In one of the early searh warrants, Nifong lists Felonious strangulation as one of the crimes commited at 610 N. Buchanan. Robbery is also mentioned.
None of the 3 charged players have been charged with felonious strangulation (nor robbery). I can only take from this that Nifong listed it in an early search warrant as justification to a Judge by going on the AV's word; however, when the medical report was reviewed there was no evidence to support this charge and it was not persued.
The question is why didn't the fact the woman reported strangulation, yet the medical report didn't support it - set off Alarm bells with Nifong and investigators?
If this was a pursuit of the truth that should've gave Nifong pause, reservation, and reasonable doubt.
Makes it that much better! He WAS the inspirational leader.
Past tense is - oh so sweet.
Yeah, a 21 fried-pork-rings salute to that!
I second that one, too!
NIFONG STILL RUNNING WILD: These subpoenas issued just a week ago.
article:
Motion protests DA's bid for data
June 08, 2006
'Fishing' is claimed in Duke lacrosse case
Anne Blythe, Staff Writer
DURHAM - District Attorney Mike Nifong is on "a fishing expedition" in his quest for records of students not charged in the Duke lacrosse case, attorneys for one player said in court papers filed this week.
Nifong issued two subpoenas May 31. The first asked Duke University for home addresses for 47 lacrosse players and two other students; the second asked for identity card data that could track where the 49 students were in the hours before and after the alleged rape.
Thomas C. Manning of Raleigh and Robert Ekstrand of Durham, who represent Frederick Krom Jr., a lacrosse player from Summit, N.J., filed a motion in Durham Superior Court on Tuesday asking that Nifong's subpoena be quashed.
An escort service dancer alleged that she was raped at a team party that started March 13 and extended into the early hours of March 14.
Players David Evans, 23, of Bethesda, Md., Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, N.Y., and Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J., have been charged in the case.
Attorneys for the accused have said their clients are innocent.
On May 15, Nifong issued a statement saying he expected no other indictments in the case.
"The district attorney is apparently on a 'fishing expedition' as it relates to Fred Krom Jr.," Manning wrote in the motion.
The motion argued that student records are privileged under federal law and struck out against Nifong's handling of the the case. The motion described the rape investigation as "an investigation of sorts."
Nifong had not shown that the information could not be obtained other ways, said Manning, contending that it was "abhorrent" to seek the information through "the shield of a judge's chambers" and subpoenas.
Nifong could not be reached for comment Wednesday.
Manning said in his motion that Nifong had no legal basis for using "the subpoena power of the court to 'poke' around in" the personal affairs of Krom and his family.
"Specifically, the district attorney must demonstrate that the disclosure of the protected and privileged material serves the end of justice," the motion states.
Krom's father, reached at the family's home in Summit, N.J., declined to comment on the motion or how the investigation has affected his son.
On Wednesday, Bill Cotter, a lawyer representing Finnerty, filed a motion asking that his client be permitted to waive his appearance in court June 22.
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/448364.html
In regard to Nifong subpoenaing the records.
Wonder if the investigative "brain trust" is thinking that the player's away from each other and relaxing during the summer break will be more likely to talk? Is that the reason for the home addresses being sought so late in the game?
More visits and questions without lawyers present? Remember, the lawyers are Durham based. If they are visited by investigators in New York or Maryland, their lawyers are going to be 300 miles away or more.
As for the key card data from Duke, how bad does that look that 3 months AFTER the party, Nifong is looking for this information? More evidence that Nifong doesn't know who was at the party and who wasn't? More evidence that Nifong is STILL trying to figure out what happened?
Or was the University Key-Card data going to be used to squeeze some kids in Connecticutt without their lawyers? Show the kid the data showing that he didn't come home that night, tell him he's the prime suspect and they know where he was and we found incriminating evidence at stated location, evidence tying you to the crime. Unless you tell us everything and agree to testify against Reade and Colin,
you're going behind bars - and not just for the summer.
Nifong is not going to drop this case, he only needs one to jump out of fear
DURHAM UPDATE: from the smoky back rooms to the Golf Greens, corruption never sleeps in Durham:
U.S. Attorney takes action
Nikole Hannah-Jones, Staff Writer
State Rep. Miller is arrested
Durham Democrat is charged with falsely claiming he paid off a student loan
State Rep. Paul Miller of Durham was arrested Wednesday on charges that he sent copies of doctored checks to the U.S. Department of Education to make it appear that he had paid off more than $20,000 in student loan debt to avoid garnishment of his pay.
The U.S. attorney filed a warrant for Miller's arrest in U.S. District Court on Tuesday, charging the Durham Democrat with making a false, fictitious or fraudulent statement or representation to the federal government and using the U.S. Postal Service to execute a scheme or artifice to defraud.
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/448278.html
Reference Crimestoppers Lacrosse Poster distributed to angry crowds and published.
Is this the smoking gun that ties Nifong to "Crimestoppers"?
Does Nifong give them the pictures, ask them to publish it, and then notify the media its on the way:
"As you get additional information through Crimestoppers or through other witnesses, there are leads to follow up on the possible identities of some of the suspects," Nifong said.
http://www.nbc17.com/education/8323322/detail.html
Other poster info:
http://www.wral.com/news/9280281/detail.html
New Commentary on Duke Alleged Rape:
New York Daily News, by Sidney Zion
At Duke, Innocent until assumed Guilty
Comes now the president of Duke University, Richard Brodhead, reinstating the men's lacrosse team he whacked out two months ago, based solely on a woman's accusation that three players had raped her.
Brodhead delivered his collective punishment before the players were indicted, and now relieves the team of it while the three face charges that could imprison them for many years.
Is there something wrong with this picture?
Everything's wrong, baby, just everything.
The case against the boys seems to be skimpier than the G-string the accuser wore while stripping at the party where the so-called rape had its inception.
The accuser, a 27-year-old black woman, was first encountered by the police in a car, where she was later described by a cop as "just passed-out drunk." After she was detoxed, she accused the three guys, who are white, of rape.
Based on this allegation, Brodhead canceled the team's season. Forget about the presumption of innocence, just deliver collective punishment and, in so doing, help ruin the accused players' lives.
There was no DNA evidence to connect the players to the woman. Alone, this ordinarily would have disposed of the case. If anything else was required, the doctors examining the accuser found no gynecological evidence of rape.
But the Durham, N.C., district attorney, Michael Nifong, running for reelection in a primary in a heavily black district against a black candidate, told a forum at North Carolina Central University, a historically black college where the accuser is a student, that "my presence here means this case is not going away."
The DNA results meant nothing to Nifong, who indicted the players and, of course, won the primary, meaning he will run unopposed in the fall. The election turned out to be as easy as the grand jury, which proved again that a prosecutor can indict a ham sandwich.
Against this backdrop, Brodhead this week did what he clearly considered to be a magnanimous gesture. In reinstating the team, he said he was "taking a risk." Richard the Brave.
Uh-huh. And then he laid out conditions: The lacrosse team would be on probation; the players would have to respect new rules of behavior. I have no argument with these rules, having to do with drinking, etc., but coming from Brodhead, they were a new way to spell chutzpah.
The fundamental rule he should have imposed was on himself and his college: Respect the presumption of innocence and never impose collective guilt.
As for the media, we need to reconsider what we do in rape cases. By refusing to reveal the names and faces of the accusers, we turn the presumption of innocence on its head.
We say implicitly that the defendant is guilty because no woman would make this accusation if it were not true. I know the argument: Name the woman, and she won't make the accusation.
If the government forbade us from naming the woman, we'd be in court in a minute, but somehow it's fine for us to censor ourselves. We have lost our way when we decide that the role of the press is to protect not the accused, but the accuser.
Originally published on June 8, 2006
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ideas_opinions/story/424521p-358174c.html
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-742276.html
Lacrosse player's lawyers seek more papers from Nifong
By John Stevenson : The Herald-Sun
jstevenson@heraldsun.com
Jun 7, 2006 : 10:45 pm ET
http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/news/state/14761868.htm
Posted on Wed, Jun. 07, 2006
Investigation into (sexual) assault by hockey players ends without charges
Associated Press
MANKATO, Minn. -
Nope. Not going to call you a jackass, even if you are wrong. It is evident to me that mental health issues affect people in all levels of the Government, the MSM, and society in general. Thus it doesn't surprise me in the least when they bend over backwards to assist one of their own, like the F/A.
So Nifong hasn't bothered to check on the whereabouts of the LAX players until now?
Most DA's would have done that long ago, like before trashing the whole team at a news conference.
I wonder if he'll finally figure out when RS got home?
I am SHOCKED that the local newspaper actually called him a Democrat!
Court Filings for Seligmann (6-8-06)
Court filing reveals early details in case
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/448437.html
A smart DA, and that lets out Mike Nimrod, would have had that information before an indictment was filed. What a putz.
I guess you can see why the strangulation charge was in early documents (search warrants) and then was dropped.
No medical evidence to support it.
Thanks for the info.
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