Posted on 06/08/2006 2:03:55 PM PDT by Mike Nifong
The motion also says the alleged victim told Durham police that she had performed for a couple at a Raleigh hotel hours before the Duke lacrosse party. She told police that she used a vibrator. Osborn suggests that could be the source of the vaginal injuries mentioned in the rape kit report. (snip) Osborn says the accuser gave conflicting accounts of what happened. The motion says medical records indicate she told a doctor that she used no alcohol or drugs. The accuser told the sexual assault nurse that she had consumed one drink of alcohol and was taking Flexeril, a prescription drug used to treat muscle spasms.
The alleged victim told a doctor the next day at UNC Hospitals that "she was drunk and had had a lot of alcohol that night," the motion said.
She later told police that she had consumed a 24-ounce bottle of beer and then told police she had two 22-ounce bottles of beer, according to the motion.
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As someone typed on courtTV's board, just when you think it can not get worse!
Nifong's braggadocio in saying that the defense attorneys were afraid to mess w/him shows us what a nitwit he really is.
LOL
Never leave this rollercoaster ride for a minute, at least SIX PHOTO ARRAYS:
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Look, I have a life to live here. Can we stop bashing these poor sex workers? LOL!
Is there going to be a body or a missing person before this is all over? This is fr@#$%*) ridiculous!
It's so bad, I've forgotten some of the earlier outrages.
That was a big innuendo type slam at georgia, who is clearly supporting Mangum because of her race. What an ignorant disgusting racist bitch Goslee is.
A holy crap BUMP!
From your link ... (where is Chalmers?)
Attorneys: At Least Six Photo Lineups Done In Duke Lacrosse Investigation
POSTED: 9:04 pm EDT June 9, 2006
UPDATED: 9:33 pm EDT June 9, 2006
DURHAM, N.C. -- In a motion filed Friday, defense attorneys say the accuser in the Duke Lacrosse rape investigation went through at least six sessions with police, trying to point out her attackers.
Defense attorneys for former Duke player Collin Finnerty have requested notes and results from all the line-ups. They say how the accuser identified her alleged attackers is critical to their defense, suggesting there have been discrepancies in the identification process.
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Related: Court Documents Requesting Photo Lineup Details
Three days after the alleged victim told police she was raped by three lacrosse players at an off-campus house, she was shown a series of pictures of possible suspects. Defense attorney Joe Cheshire claims his client, Dave Evans, was never picked in the first lineup.
Three weeks later, police conducted another lineup with the accuser. During that session, the woman identified Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann with 100 percent certainty. She also picked Evans with 90 percent certainty.
Defense attorneys for Finnerty say there were at least six lineups, and possibly even more. They want all the reports and police notes from the sessions
Defense attorneys not related to the case told WRAL it is highly unusual for investigators to conduct so many lineups. Police said they couldn’t comment while the case is under investigation.
That was a big innuendo type slam at georgia, who is clearly supporting Mangum because of her race. What an ignorant disgusting racist bitch Goslee is.
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Jezebelle needs her own show. Ann Coulter doesn't have sh*&& on her.
It might be a bombshell in any case and in any week but this one. In a week we read that Mangum told the police Roberts participated in the assault on her, this may barely make a ripple.
This is why Nifong and the cops, at least Himan, MUST be prosecuted. An example needs to be made of them for prosecutors eveywhere. We've seen way too much abuse of prosecutorial power in recent years.
Watch Patrick Baker. Watch him very closely.
He has inserted himself at critical points all along. Even when Chalmers in the paper about current cases, he wasn't on this case.
Baker and his extravagant lifestyle are mighty suspicious. He
was the one the reportedly dispatched the detectives to question the players with their lawyers present, just a day or two AFTER indictments were signed against Seligman and Finnerty.
Everyone is so afraid and cowed by blacks, nobody in a position to do anything meaningful will stand up and just speak the truth about what is going on and the extent to which race played a detrimental role in this case.
Question: If the case goes to trial, can Nifong be called as a witness? In other words, can he be called to testify as to the basis for his on camera statements on the basis that he had custody of the evidence?
That's because the medical report was supposed to be the remaining lone piece of viable evidence against the boys, or at least reasonable proof that at least a rape took place. Now that's shot to hell. But that's the reason why a lawyer would focus on the medical report - it was the last bastion of evidence for the prosecution, and the understanding of its content has now been put asunder, too. Without what it was represented to be, there just is no case left.
As long as her partner doesn't have a "bad back"--if so why bother-GRIN!!
Paging Cash Michaels...
Paging Cash Michaels...
Please pick up the courtesy reality phone.
Paging Cash Michaels...
Holy sh*t!!!
This just keeps getting worse and worse.
Yes, he can, although it would be unusual. But this is an unusual case.
When a prosecutor inserts himself into the investigative process, he makes himself a witness. When he inserts himself into the media to the extent he has, he exerts influence on the jury pool, and his conduct can be raised during voir dire of the jury.
I have been researching ... I am sure you have read this:
New city manager receives warm reception as City Hall morale rises
BY GINNY SKALSKI :
The Herald-Sun
gskalski@heraldsun.com
Feb 5, 2005 : 8:02 pm ET
DURHAM -- As Durham's new city manager, Patrick Baker is getting used to seeing his picture in the newspaper.
But there was a day early last month when seeing his photo in ink sent him to the county jail.
It happened the day after a young man accused of shooting an 18-year-old woman at a downtown nightclub turned himself in to police.
Two stories in the newspaper that day painted starkly different pictures.
One featured Baker, smiling slightly in the photo, talking about efforts to close a downtown intersection.
The other was about the young man's arrest. Accompanying it was a police mugshot of the 20-year-old with frizzy hair, half-closed eyes and a scowl.
"There was something sort of about my picture, with kind of a grin on my face and being the manager, and his picture with hair all over the place and not a really happy face, and that just sort of struck a chord with me," Baker said.
The next day, a Sunday, the then-interim city manager drove his Range Rover to the jail to learn what allegedly prompted the man to fire several shots into MK's House of Jazz and R&B.
What Baker found was a scared gang member who had never met his father and already had two children.
Nobody asked Baker to go to the jail. It was a trip, he said, he felt he had to make.
"As a community, we've got to engage these kids because we're losing them left and right," Baker said. "I can double the police force if people want me to, but it's not going to help. We're still going to have the same kind of problems."
The City Council hired Baker as city manager on Jan. 14.
For five months, he had filled in for Marcia Conner, who resigned after a rocky three years. The offer to be interim manager came the day before Baker's 37th birthday -- a "mentally exhausting" day spent helping the council negotiate Conner's severance package in his previous role as assistant city attorney.
As they tied up the loose ends, council members told Baker they wanted to talk about one more thing. Grinning, they invited him to sit down, and asked if he was interested in the interim position. Then they began grilling him -- what was his vision for the city, what did he hope to accomplish?
"It was one of the most surreal moments of my life. There were times during the interview process that I would tap my foot on the floor just to get some sort of sensation," Baker said. "I was just trying to hold it together."
Lack of experience seemed a strike against Baker moving from interim to permanent manager. But several council members said they had noticed a boost in City Hall morale during Baker's temporary stint.
"The change of atmosphere in the organization ... caused the council to pick me," Baker said.
People who know Baker say he has a way of putting others at ease.
Baker points to his small-town upbringing. He was born in Camp Lejeune in 1967, the son of a Marine and a homemaker. Eventually, they moved off base into the nearby Havelock community, population 22,000.
It was a friendly place where everyone knew each other, Baker said. That "small-town mentality" is helping him build trust today with city employees, he said.
Baker's older brother Anthony calls him genuine, a "straight shooter."
"Whoever he's talking to, he'll get his full attention," Anthony Baker said. "Whether it's a secretary in his office or the mayor, neither one of them is going to get more attention because of who they are."
The youngest of four children, Patrick Baker calls himself "the proverbial 'oops' baby" because he was born 10 years after his two brothers and sister. Being the youngest, however, had its advantages, he said.
With all of his siblings out of the house by the time he was 9, Baker had the perk of receiving all his parents' attention.
Neither of his parents graduated from college, but they emphasized education -- and it worked. The four Baker children sport nine degrees among them.
His oldest brother, Scott, was a family doctor before dying of a heart attack in 1998 at age 45. Anthony is a professor at Campbell University's law school, and sister Marie Watson is an elementary school teacher in Raleigh.
Baker met his future wife, Rae Ann, when she moved into his neighborhood just before they began the seventh grade. But they didn't become friends until both started playing tennis at Havelock High School.
By their junior year, they were best friends. As seniors, they decided to trade in their friendship for romance.
"He confessed that he was more nervous than I was that it might not last," Rae Ann said. "He was worried about taking that plunge."
The high school sweethearts continued seeing each other while Baker attended Wake Forest University and Rae Ann went to UNC Greensboro. They married when he finished law school.
Baker moved to Durham in 1993 to work at the downtown law firm of Poe, Hoof & Reinhardt doing insurance defense and personal injury work. Now he can see his former employer from the window in his corner office on the second floor of City Hall.
The manager's office has become a second home for Baker. He estimates he works nearly 75 hours a week.
Because he's not a morning person, he usually works late, sometimes staying past midnight. He tries to slip out of the office early enough to read to his children -- Griffin, 6, and Chloe, 4 -- before tucking them into bed.
"When we do prayers at night, they always say, 'Thank you for daddy's new job,'" Rae Ann said.
On some nights when Baker can't make it home for dinner, his family will haul takeout food to his office and pop "Shrek 2" or "Tarzan" into the DVD player hooked up to the projection screen in his conference room.
And when Baker needs to work on Sundays, he'll occasionally take along Griffin and Chloe to give a break to his wife, who is a stay-at-home mom.
"We've had to be creative with time, and we've really had to guard it," Baker said. "It's a constant challenge."
Rae Ann plans to put a rug in the corner of the office to create a play area, complete with toy- and book-filled baskets.
When City Council members met in August to write a classified ad detailing the manager's position, they made sure to include the word "challenging."
Deserved or not, the reputation of Durham's city government isn't the best. But Baker said negative labels didn't keep him from applying for a job that some people wouldn't go near.
"I really believe in the organization," Baker said. "I wouldn't have taken this position if I didn't believe in the organization and people here. This just plays into, sort of, my strength -- making order out of disorder."
For the past few months, Baker has visited city employees to shake hands and give a short speech about taking ownership and pride in city government.
"When you take an active ownership in it, you take pride in the organization, and you don't want to see some of the problems that have popped up in the past," Baker said.
He seems to have won over a city staff hardened by Conner's more abrasive style. When Baker recently kicked off the city's annual budgeting process by telling employees they had a lot of work ahead, they burst into applause.
"I think he's the real deal, the genuine article when it comes to caring about Durham," said Assistant City Attorney Sherri Zann Rosenthal.
But Baker acknowledges it will take more than a morale boost for Durham to rebound from a string of scandals. Then there's Durham's other image problem: crime.
When he was named city manager, Baker made crime his top priority -- reducing it, and changing the perception that Durham is an overly dangerous place.
His answer doesn't necessarily lie in putting more police on the streets. He says he favors fighting crime through neighborhood revitalization and stepping up efforts to enforce the city housing codes and zoning ordinances.
He also believes in the "broken window" theory -- that crime increases in blighted neighborhoods because criminals think no one sees or cares.
"I think that we spend way too much time focusing on the Police Department to solve all of society's ills, and all they're doing is catching the ones that act outside of our norms and sending them to jail," Baker said. "And then the court system sends them back at some point in time and we catch them doing it again. I just don't see the cycle ending."
One of Baker's goals is to increase youth programs and other opportunities for young people. He wonders what might have happened if the man he visited in jail last month had had more choices while growing up.
"There were several failures in this kid's life that go way beyond anything the police could have done," Baker said. "All the police could do was catch him and send him to jail. Where do we go from here?"
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