Some are 18, some are 19. Their lives (and careers) have been severely interupted.
I'm saying they scare or intimidate one of these kids (or just make the attempt). The prosecution team has to be thinking there's 47 of these guys and many are teenagers. We only need one.
Scare them with statements like "we'll never stop investigating you?"; wouldn't you like to have everything get back to normal?; you can make this all go away; we know what happened, Frankie told us about the pot. He told us all about it. Do you want to go to Duke ever again?
Or Joe, Sam, and Brian have decided to put a stop to all this and work with us. If you join them, you 4 will be the Captains. You guys will get to work and mold the new program in the right direction. If you don't, then we'll probably recommend that you not be reinstated along with a couple others. Broadhead has asked us to weed out some of the troublemakers, so that the new program doesn't make any headlines. It's up to you, join your teammates, sign a couple documents - or I'm going to have to put you on the list of those that shouldn't be reinstated.
Or How much of your college career have you lost? You have two years of eligibility left, right? We just need some information from that night. We know what happened. We know you weren't involved, we know you are good guys. The girl was trouble, she's lied. I never did believe her story. Look I know you like to drink. Go to Charlies a lot. If you help us, no one has to know. If you don't, I'll have a undercover guy on you every weekend. First time, you enjoy one - you've blown another season of eligibility. Duke will ask you to leave just like Ryan.
You don't want to lose another season do you? You'll be working soon enough. College is for fun. You should enjoy this season like all LAX guys before you. You can do that, if you sign a couple papers. A couple pieces of paper and we're out of here and no one will have to know. You'd be a fool not to man.
Like a false confession given to stop the pressure. People have confessed to murders just because a guy is yelling in their face.
I'm sure these guys would love to catch one of these kids at home while their parents are in Hawaii or at the beach. The kid might answer the door with a beer in his hand. Nifong is desperate at this point and I'm sure it's occured to his crack staff that the players may be more approachable when they are separated, far away from their lawyers, when they are more relaxed at home or when they are least expecting to be confronted by Durham Detective.
They can show up at their house and say we just came from Ann's house (girlfriend). She told us that it got a little rough in there that night. Some things were said. I know you were drunk, but there are hate crimes. Just using the offensive words you used, in Durham that's 3 years in prison - no questions. Now, we know you used them. We have the videotape from the party and the girl that sits next to you in Physics - Brianne - she ID'd your voice from the videotape. That's all we need we have enough to sent you up for 3 years - no questions. Now, if you help us out, will take 20 minutes, then we'll tear up Brianne's statement. We just want to be able to move forward, you can help us and your teammates by putting this all behind us. The team can't operate with all this over it's head.
etc, etc.
I think they've had enough legal counsel and warning to withstand it. The cops already tried this in their dorm raid and it didn't fly. They did the same thing with the phony email they sent out. Both efforts were amateurish and clumsy, in my opinion.
Trying to squeeze somebody into lying is subborning perjury. That is a felony. Any DPD officer doing this directly would be really, really stupid, and getting someone else to do it for you would be conspiracy on top of the subborning charge and would serve up a witness with a lot less to lose than the cop or DA who initiated it. If they use the mail or a telephone to commit the crimes, then you can add wire and mail fraud to it. Oh, and I almost forgot obstruction of justice.
Now, if something really did happen that night, it would be different. But even kim said in her first statement, before she considered how she could gain from the case, that she was away from Mangum for five minutes or less, so we know it didn't happen. So, it looks like the cops' only option is to subborn perjury or suck it up. I think they want the addresses just to harrass and follow them, maybe try to catch an incriminating or semi-incriminating statement or one that could be twisted that way, and make their lives unhappy by bugging the hell out of them and their families. But they'd have to pay somebody in the area of these guys to do it because I doubt if DPD can afford to send a dozen or more investigators to set up shop in these other states for the summer, what with manpower costs, lodging, etc., and I doubt that they can afford to pay private dicks to do this in that many jurisdictions for a very long period of time at all - like almost no time at all.