Posted on 07/12/2006 7:56:13 PM PDT by freespirited
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.
mark
"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."
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.
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 28the day after Nifong first spoke
out in the Duke case, publicly chastising the players for not coming forward
to volunteer information about the alleged rapeSimeon 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?
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 wouldve cooperated, Addison told the Herald-Sun.
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.
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.?
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
"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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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