Duke Lacrosse Alleged Rape Case Timeline

NBC Durham ^ | 7/12/06

[GAgal]

Durham tv station WRAL ran a segment about the case on the evening of Mar. 23, following the team's dna sampling that day. Jason Bissey makes some remarks, even though Himan didn't take his statement until 3-31, if I remember right.

Also seen on video is Durham PD Cpl. David Addison, whose remarks seem especially outrageous now. He's the one likely responsible for the inflammatory team poster/flier distributed by police that defense attorney Chairns has been seeking info about on behalf of an unindicted player. He is AA, and the police coordinator of the local CrimeStoppers.

http://www.wral.com/news/8241434/detail.html

Cpl. Addison is hip-deep in responsibility for the early madness and misrepresentations imo.

[gopheraj]

mark

[maggief]

"There hasn't been a major federal crackdown on escort services in North Carolina in a decade."

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/423120.html

Safety key to escort service, ex-owner says

Published: Mar 29, 2006 05:35 AM

EXCERPT

Problems in policing

Prostitution is a state crime that is prosecuted sporadically by local police. In the past few years, Raleigh and Greensboro police have turned their attention to escort services and made several prostitution arrests.

In Cary, police say they have targeted escort services by posing as customers in hotels. But the cases are hard to make, Capt. Dave Wulff said.

"When we talk to them on the phone, all they're doing is saying that they offer companionship," Wulff said.

Just getting a woman to the meeting location can start at $100. Once the woman is there, that's when they start negotiating sex services, Wulff said.

There have been cases, though rare, in which a woman will go to meet one of the officers and offer only companionship. Whether that means there are companies that legitimately offer just companionship or that the escorts suspect they are in the company of police, Wulff doesn't know.

There hasn't been a major federal crackdown on escort services in North Carolina in a decade. In the last one, Peeples was caught in an Internal Revenue Service sting that snared escort companies that used a credit card service allegedly to hide the source of their income. In 1999, he pleaded guilty to money laundering and served more than three years in prison.

Now living in Mississippi, he hesitantly agreed to a phone interview Tuesday, saying he would talk in hopes of helping protect women in the escort trade.

"They have a right to say 'no' just like anybody else does," said Peeples, who is no longer in the escort business. "The vast majority of girls working with escort services are not bad people. They are people who would absolutely abhor anybody knowing that they work there."

[GAgal]

More of what Durham PD Cpl. David Addison had to say before Mar. 27, which is said to be when Nifong piped up:

* 3/24 WRAL: DNA Samples Taken From Duke Lacrosse Team After Reported Gang Rape

"We are not going to bypass them [the whole team] because of a small inconvenience," said Cpl. David Addison of the Durham Police Department. "You are looking at one victim brutally raped. If that was someone else's daughter, child, I don't think 46 tests would be a large enough number to figure out exactly who did it," Addison said.

* 3/25 N&O: Dancer Gives Details of Ordeal

Durham Police Cpl. David Addison said, "We will be relentless in finding out who committed this crime."

* 3/26 ABC News: Duke Lacrosse Rape Claim Spurs Outrage

"That brutal assault, that brutal rape that occurred within that house cannot be explained by anyone," Addison said.

The word "alleged" is not part of Addison's vocabulary.

[xoxoxox]

What Happened at Duke?
Sex. Race. A raucous party. A rape charge.
And a prosecutor up for re-election. Inside
the mystery that has roiled a campus
and riveted the country.
By Meadows; Thomas, Newsweek , May 1, 2006
-excerpt-
Shortly after Nifong decided to run, he began reaching out to Simeon.
He went to an NAACP banquet and crossed the room to extend his
hand in peace to Simeon. On March 28—the day after Nifong first spoke
out in the Duke case, publicly chastising the players for not coming forward
to volunteer information about the alleged rape—Simeon told Nifong he would
support him. He invited Nifong to speak at his church, Ebenezer Missionary
Baptist, and introduced him to the African-American congregation as a man
who had always been a "good prosecutor," but who, Simeon said he had
recently learned, was also a "good man."

Who gift-wrapped this hoax and handed it to the DA on a silver platter?

[maggief]

Sound like more intimidation, IMO.

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:tV1eibDDhbIJ:wilmingtonjournal.blackpressusa.com/news/Article/Article.asp%3FNewsID%3D67967%26sID%3D4+Cpl.+David+Addison+durham&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=9&client=firefox-a

DUKE RAPE DNA EVIDENCE COULD BE CHALLENGED, WEEK OF MARCH 30-APRIL 5, 2006
by CASH MICHAELS
The Wilmington Journal
Originally posted 4/3/2006


Durham Police spokesman Cpl. David Addison told the Herald-Sun that “…it was ‘unfortunate’ that police had to go to such lengths, but that the team members ‘denied participation or knowing anything.’

Addison added that “the team got several chances to cooperate with police and that the non-testimonial order was issued only after the players kept silent.”

“We never would have had to do those swabs if they would’ve cooperated,” Addison told the Herald-Sun.

[GAgal]

I think Ben Himan, lead investigator, needs more scrutiny.

"Himan, who joined the force [Durham PD] in 2002, has arrested suspected vandals, shoplifters, and drunken drivers during his work patrolling the streets."

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/434144.html

Himan is a young man, so when the article says he "joined the force in 2002" I think that means he first became a police officer in 2002. Yet this young, white patrolman was elevated to detective last January, and despite almost no experience was named lead investigator of the most divisive Durham case in recent history. That makes no sense to me, unless incompetency was sought by higher-ups.

[GAgal]

Could Addison have been unaware of the three captains' complete cooperation? Perhaps, but unlikely. Why is a "corporal" making these inflammatory public statements anyway? Addison is the CrimeStoppers coordinator, not a police spokesman like Kammie M.?

[xoxoxox]

The Mayor cracks down on prostitution.

excerpt from The Durham News, July 15, 2006

"City Councilman Howard Clement III said he is disgusted by the prevalence of prostitution in the area.

"The prostitution is coming with the gangs because the gangs are bringing the drugs," Jenkins said. "What we have is a vicious cycle and somewhere in the loop we're leaving one part [out]: the parents, the community and the businesses, and that's why we're here. A safe community makes better business."

Change should start in the community, Mayor Bell said, because residents know the drug dealers' identities and can alert the authorities as to their activities. He expressed his desire that residents let him and other city council members know of neighborhood issues until they are resolved.

"If you don't squeak, you don't get any grease," Clement said."

http://thedurhamnews.com/front/story/2976753p-9408093c.html

[maggief]

"Payoffs" ... interesting term.

http://www.pac2durham.com/minutes/pac/pac09_09_02.htm

9/9/2002 Partners Against Crime District II Minutes


Crimestoppers suffers from something of an identity crisis: many people think they're a part of the police department, but in fact, they're a nonprofit funded by community donations. (Crimestoppers is a 501(c)(3) organization.) Hence, although they do get some funding aid from the city, they are not a publicly funded service, and they rely on donations to continue their work. Crimestoppers works with a coordinator from the DPD, currently Inspector David Addison. He meets with them every third Tuesday and brings a list of recommended payoffs based on which tips from Crimestoppers have proven useful.

[GAgal]

That 2002 report mentions District 2 officers Capt. Clark and Lt. Sarvis. The current District 2 officers in charge are Capt. Sarvis and Lt. L.T. Smith.

http://www.durhampolice.com/districts/d2.cfm

Do Gottlieb and Himan work out of District 2? In the 4/4 lineup transcript, Gottlieb says he left the 3/31 meeting with Nifong where the coming lineup procedure was discussed and returned to District 2 to brief Capt. Lamb and Lt. Ripberger. Who are they then?

[maggief]

Interesting comment from Sarvis, (sorry, can't except USAToday).

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:sPu-yJDDsioJ:www.usatoday.com/sports/college/lacrosse/2006-05-02-nifong_x.htm+duke+lacrosse+Sarvis&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a

[GAgal]

Thanks, maggie, I missed that article the first time. It quotes one of Nifong's fellow NC DAs saying Nifong discussed the case in early April with him and others at a conference. I seem to remember the initial dna results were delayed because Nifong was going to be out of town. He surely knew the dna results by then, but I doubt he shared that bombshell with his peers. I'd love to know what they think of "Mike" now that public perception of NC justice has plummeted.

[Neverforget01]

“We never would have had to do those swabs if they would’ve cooperated,” Addison told the Herald-Sun

If only those players had just said someone was raped that night, they wouldn't have all had to be tested! Imagine a system working like this??? Admit to a crime and then you won't be harrassed? It's mind boggling, especially in view of the fact there isn't one piece of evidence proving the woman was raped and she had every motive to make a false claim. I sure hope this farce ends soon.

[JLS]

Very interesting set of articles:

1. The Duke student's article in the WAPO is almost useless as she does not under stand the different between a rape shield law that keeps out non germane prior sexual behavior and the press voluntarily choosing not to publish Mangum's name.

2. The call not to donate to Duke is part of the drip drip drip pressure on Duke. I think that will continue to get worse. [This whole idea of suspending any student charged with a felony is problematic for Universities. I think he came out of criticism of how athletes in the cash sport were treated but it invites setting up your athletes and other students some one has a grudge against.]

3. The Cheek article was very interesting and the speculation is on at various websites is a deal is in the works, Nifong drops the lacrosse case and Cheek does not campaign. But I wonder about a very very real chance that Cheek might win even if he doesnot campaign. In fact not campaigning might cause the Nifong voters to not come to the polls and aid Cheek in winning.

4. Finally the wishy-washy useless N&O article is pointless. In this case there is a side to be on. After this case discussing the the press issues might be interesting. But now the falsely accused need to be advocated for by the press and gotten off the hot seat. Finally, I have news for Irving Joyner, NCCU Law Prof, YOU ARE OLD. YOU ARE AN ATTORNEY. YOU ARE AS ESTABLISHMENT AS IT GETS. YOU ARE NOT OF THE STREETS. BEING BLACK DOES NOT MAKE YOU HIP AT 64, it makes you old and black. I have a neighbor like this. She is a middle class, suburban wife wife several kids. She think because she is black that makes her hipper than others. Actually thinking you are hipper or part of the streets when you are middle aged and older and middle class is embarrassing and pathetic. Sorry Mr. Joyner, "in the street" they don't use violin metaphors.

[GAgal]

Professor Irving Joyner: http://www.nccu.edu/law/faculty/faculty/joyner.html

After saying that NC rape shield and other laws will prevent the jury from hearing much of the defense info, Joyner told SI of Nifong, "He still has a viable shot at victory before a jury in Durham."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/magazine/06/22/duke0626/
I bet Joyner has no idea what that statement says about him and his community.

[JLS]

I bet Joyner has no idea what that statement says about him and his community.

Joyner is an OLD NORTHERNER. He does know jack about this community which is most certainly NOT HIS. He is babbling on. His babble is the academic equivalent to trash talking. He says things like that to scare white people.

Joiner is an outsider, with more in common with the defendants in this case than Mangum. He went to LIU and Rutgers for goodness sakes.

[abb]

Pinging the DukeLax List. Article in Today's (7/16/06) NY Times New York Region Edition only. Posted on Friends of Duke University Blog - http://friendsofdukeuniversity.blogspot.com/

Published in New York Times (New York Region only) on July 16, 2006. Many of our readers do not have access to "New York Times - New York Region Only". So, we are reproducing the article here. We hope NYT - New York Region will be okay with this.

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As Accusation at Duke Festers, Disbelief Gnaws at Suspect’s Supporters

By PETER APPLEBOME
Morristown, N.J.

PATRICIA CRAPO has been teaching religion and writing college recommendations for a quarter century, but only once did she allow herself to put so much of her heart on the page.

“If I had a son, I would hope he could be like Reade,” Mrs. Crapo wrote three years ago on behalf of a student applying to Duke . “I have been teaching at the high school level for 24 years, and I have never said or written that about another student.”

The letter, written about a student, Reade Seligmann, whom she taught for four years at the Roman Catholic Delbarton School here, still rings completely true to her.

But that letter can sum up the jarring disparity that characterizes Reade Seligmann’s life now. On the one hand is the person his acquaintances know. On the other is his role as one of three white Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a black woman hired to dance at an off-campus party. The case has inspired endless jeremiads on race, gender and class despite growing questions about whether the accusations are true.

On the surface, the most obvious disparity is that records, photographs and eyewitnesses’ accounts from his cellphone, a taxi driver, an A.T.M. and his electronic dorm entry card seem to show that he was either on the phone or far from the party virtually the entire time the attack is to have occurred. (Lawyers for both the other accused players say they have compelling alibis and have passed polygraph tests claiming their innocence.)

But to teachers, coaches and monks at Delbarton, to his neighbors in Essex Fells, N.J., and to his friends at Duke, the disparity between the indictment and these circumstances is not the biggest absurdity. Instead, it’s that he is part of this story at all.

Father Luke Travers, the Benedictine monk who is Delbarton’s headmaster, and Katie Fisher, a recent Duke graduate, have little in common except for making the same point in similar words. When they heard he had been identified as one of the suspects, the whole story began to lose any credibility.

“Before anyone was charged, rumors were flying all over campus, but no one ever guessed for one second she could name Reade,” said Ms. Fisher, referring to the accuser. “And when I heard it was Reade, I knew 100 percent in my heart this was a completely false allegation.”

Full disclosure: I graduated from Duke long ago and have a son there now. And I’m slightly involved in alumni affairs through a board, composed mostly of journalists who are Duke graduates, which meets twice a year to advise the alumni magazine.

But you don’t need ties to Duke to look at details that have emerged about the case — the accuser’s history of past accusations and differing accounts of the crime, a lack of DNA evidence, a police lineup of only Duke lacrosse players, a second dancer’s original statement saying no rape could have occurred — and come away queasy.

Maybe he and the others are the monstrous incarnation of white, male privilege, or maybe this has become a cautionary tale of a rush to judgment before facts were known, of a toxic brew of politics and race in the middle of an election for district attorney.

Reade Seligmann, a barrel-chested high school All-American and top student, was recruited by nearly every top university in the country, including all the Ivies, to play lacrosse or football.

His nickname on the team at Duke was “Frazzle” because he worried so much about getting anything wrong: a dropped pass, any kind of misbehavior. He was viewed as the team’s resident Nervous Nellie. The family joke is that he worries for two weeks if he feels he didn’t give someone a good enough handshake. “He was a person of definite goals, but especially of values,” said Abbot Giles Hayes, the monk who oversees Delbarton. “Sixteen- and 17-year-olds aren’t finished yet, but Reade acted finished. He acted like he was 37 or 47.”

HE was an honor student at Duke and a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference academic honors team. He chose to live in a separate part of his dorm from most of his teammates, not because he disapproved of them (he doesn’t), but because he didn’t want social pressures to impinge on academic ones. He told friends that he attended the infamous party reluctantly and mostly because he thought it would seem rude not to be there.

There’s not enough space for all his character references, but at Duke you could start with Yani Newton, the only black member of the women’s lacrosse team, who had a regular breakfast date with Mr. Seligmann before an 8:30 class, and who knew he was the only white student in his African-American studies class. Asked if he had ever given indications of being racist, she said: “Oh my God, absolutely no, a resounding no. The idea is just laughable.”

Is Reade Seligmann a saint? Not many of us are. Did some kids on that team behave like complete jackasses? Absolutely. And there are certainly cases where good kids do unspeakably stupid things — particularly when alcohol is involved.

But it’s easier to spin the narrative of race, class and privilege when it’s not attached to a real person. So Mrs. Crapo has dug out an old picture she took of her former student in class and put it on her dresser at home to blot out the pictures from mug shots and courtrooms, the sickening images that look to her like a good kid caught in a bad movie he can’t escape.

[Howlin]

Photo caption Left to right:  Attorney Irving Joyner, a professor at
 North Carolina Central University's School of Law, and Reverend
 William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP,
 respond to questions regarding the upcoming conference on crime, its
 impact in minority communities and the solutions to these problems.

 For more information, contact Professor Irving Joyner at (919)
 530-6293.

[Howlin]

Dr. Joyner pontificates:

http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:tV1eibDDhbIJ:wilmingtonjournal.blackpressusa.com/news/Article/Article.asp%3FNewsID%3D67967%26sID%3D4+Professor+Irving+Joyner&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=6