Posted on 07/12/2006 1:52:14 AM PDT by abb
Phone use spans time of team party
In the middle of a Duke lacrosse party where a dancer said she was gang-raped for 30 minutes, a call was placed from her cell phone to a Durham escort service.
The 12:26 a.m. call to the service, Centerfold, lasted one minute, according to a copy of her cell phone bill reviewed by The News & Observer. It is unclear whether the call was a request for another job, a cry for help or something else, or even whether the accuser made the call herself.
But the accuser's phone records add some details to the chronology of the March 13 party, a drunken spring break bash that spawned a national controversy.
Neither prosecutors nor defense lawyers would discuss the phone records Tuesday. Neither the accuser nor a second dancer at the party could be reached, nor could representatives of Centerfold. Police Chief Steve Chalmers was out of town; his spokeswoman said he would not discuss the case.
Three players have been charged with first-degree rape, sexual offense and kidnapping: Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Fells, N.J.; Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, N.Y.; and Dave Evans, 23, of Bethesda, Md. Lawyers for the players have proclaimed their clients' innocence and said no rape or sex occurred at the house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
District Attorney Mike Nifong, whose handling of the case has undergone national scrutiny, has been adamant that the woman was raped at the party. Nifong has not given a precise timeline of when he thinks an assault occurred.
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I remember Nifong laughing about it in court as though it was absurd. In order for him to actually think it was absurd, he would have to have known when calls were made.
Will he try to claim that Mangum didn't make those calls prior to her arrival and thus the calls are no proof she arrived at 12:40 but rather arrived earlier? That still wouldn't explain why she would be dancing at 12:05 after just having been brutally raped. She, herself, stated the phone was left there, thus she had to have made the call at 12:26. So that leaves a 20 minute window during which Reade was only present 8-10 minutes and was on the phone almost continuously.
I've just emailed my Senator asking for him to request a response to several questions from the DC attorneys office about their actions in the Finnerty case. (It is the Senate that has ultimate oversight of DC).
It's odd that two attorneys would be assigned and a full formal court convened for a misdemeanor student brawl, when DC is in the midst of a declared crime emergency.
Besides the waste of resources, there is suspicion that there was an attempt to secure a conviction against yet another player (besides Evans, against whom Nifong judge-shopped to obtain a conviction in a noise-abatement case) in order to taint and perhaps even restrict their testimony (according to NC law) at a later trial.
How many other defendants get treated with the same level of scrutiny as did Finnerty? And how much did this all cost? Was Nifong ever in contact with the DC office, and if so, what was discussed?
These people are our public servants, and we have the right to know the answers to these things. (Hint: if you are displeased about the way your public servants have acted, and about how they are spending your public tax dollars,then I urge you to email your senators, also.)
You are correct. We don't know if Abrams has seen the additional 500+ pages.
I miss his take on this.
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07.12.06
Addendum: A reader notes that the stripper-accuser worked for Bunnyhole Entertainment but called Centerfold Escorts at 12:26 a.m., which may suggest she was looking for another gig for the night/morning. The reader also said that according to a police statement attached to a June 8 Motion to Suppress (PDF), the police contacted Angel’s Escort Service.
Now, I don’t know anything about the escort “industry,” but I suspect one business may operate under different names. True? If not, that means the stripper worked for several escort services. And let’s dispense with the “escort” euphemism. The stripper worked for prostitution “businesses” in a prostitute capacity. There, I said it.
It may be that the phone was actually provided to her by the service which I believe is probably the case and they want to clear themselves of any "involvement" in this scheme.
Was your question asking me if I know how the escort industry works? LOL! Just kidding!
Hardly, but I guess this may be standard operating procedure for hookers/escorts/exotic dancers/whatever they want to be called. Get finished with one gig, call all the other "agencies" and get more gigs.
These all may be run by a single "broker" who fulfills requirements for all the adult entertainment industry in town.
Didn't the AV have two cell phones?
If so, why would she talk to her father on her "business" phone?
Yes, please do enlighten us. LOL
Wow, how did we miss THAT?
You are terrible! :-)
Lol, maybe this is where Chalmers and Co. come in to play. Think of it. They have dispatchers, transportation - everything needed to operate the business...
That is PRECISELY what I think is going on! Not LOL...very serious.
... and officers to check in on the young'uns???
...and if not Chalmers, perhaps Howard Clement III? Or the entire group?
Paging Melanie Sill... paging Melanie Sill...
Judge Stephens was awfully fast to consider the privacy rights of "third-parties" when Crystal's cell phone records were requested by the defense attorneys. I origianlly thought he was grandstanding for the media. But after all that we've learned about Durham? I agree there is something much bigger going on here than the Duke "rape" case.
Mark my words: this case will never go to trial. Somebody make a bet with me fast before online betting is outlawed.
According to the timeline, the women were together continuously until several minutes after Reade had left with Wellington, which was 12:20 according to both Kim and Bissey. Kim has said she saw no rape while she was present. Therefore, Reade could not possibly have committed a rape. If Reade is innocent, then so are Collin and Dave, because they are all alleged to have committed the crime in concert and Mangum's ID of Reade and Collin were 100% (even though she previously described them quite differently).
Mangum's phone records and Bissey's account show Mangum's arrival on the property between 11:40 at the earliest and 11:50 when Bissey first saw them outside. The women were together continuously until 12:20 which is after Reade left and, in any case, photos show Mangum dancing at midnight and several minutes later, and nobody would dance for a bunch of guys after having just been raped, so what and how Nifong has a different timeline is a lie and is provably inaccurate.
I think the phone records were asked for a long time ago (remember the squabble in court about whether the phone was owned by a 3rd party?) and turned over with the second batch of discovery. That's what I remember anyway.
May have been pointed out, Chalmers is out of town.
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