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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Excellent site. Durham's has an overall crime rate about 3 time that of my County, but Durham's murder rate tracks 30 times higher per 100,000 people! Durham is a nasty town. The city father's are going to love some of these numbers - not.
I'm just hoping she stoops to reply to the comments of a little plebe reader. I'd really like to let her have it with the other barrel.
7 Johns and no prossies!! That doesn't make sense. Also what a whimpy article. It looks like Bishop simple took the police blotter and rewrote it.
The prostitute was a female cop, so it makes perfect sense, I think.
It's just Durham that's particularly bad. The rest of the state is no more or less corrupt that any other place you might be.
Let's see that makes 7 out of 12 40 or over and an average age of 34. Guess the young ones were able to outrun the Durham cops!
Right, I think we are both on the same page both here and the CourtTV board on the issue of the photo arrays and what Nifong might claim and what they really were.
I posted this at stalag CW as well.
http://www.wral.com/slideshow/news/8856916/detail.html?qs=;s=5;w=764
Note the account of the attack used in the Finnerty search warrant. It was written on 4/18, so it is a later version of events.
Note how it doesn't mention that the dancers went into the bathroom after the broomstick remark. It has them leaving the house together for the car after the broomstick remark.
A huge difference.
It's really odd because it blows a hole in the idea that the AV was incapacitated after the dance by a drug. In this version, the AV just goes out to the car with Nikki after they quit dancing.
Note also that this version references Kim's statement, yet it is at odds with Kim's statement.
^5, Dr. LB
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No johns named??? :-/
"Wellington and Seligmann basically have exactly the same alibi"
Hey, Nifong might as well have indicted George Bush, Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney. Those three have photos, documents, and witnesses to the fact they were not at the Buchanan house; and a DNA exam would prove they never had contact with that woman.
So why is it so obviously absurd to think that they could be guilty, but not similarly absurd to think that Seligman, Finnerty, and Evans could be guilty?
FYI Seligmann is also a home run on $$$$.
No, but if you go to the Inmate Population Search for the last 24 hours they are on the list. I don't recognize any names.
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