Posted on 07/20/2006 2:44:49 PM PDT by abb
"Come get some!"
And here's his pic on Nifong's webpage. http://www.mikenifong.com/districtcourt.php
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-754725.html
Attorneys want gag order lifted
By John Stevenson : The Herald-Sun
jstevenson@heraldsun.com
Jul 21, 2006 : 8:09 pm ET
DURHAM -- Lawyers for three Duke lacrosse players indicted on rape charges banded together Friday to ask Superior Court Judge Kenneth C. Titus to modify a quasi-gag order he issued Monday.
Titus told lawyers on both sides to refrain from discussing the case with the media except under special circumstances.
The judge said the order was necessary because extensive pretrial publicity already may have harmed the possibility of seating a fair jury.
But the defense lawyers contended Friday they were entitled to "pursue lawful strategies" to try to get the indictments dismissed or the charges reduced -- including using "the court of public opinion" to try to show their clients don't deserve to be tried.
The motion noted that District Attorney Mike Nifong granted dozens of media interviews in March and April, setting out "a clear narrative of this case that was embraced by most if not all of the media covering this case, as well as the public it served."
Nifong was on vacation Friday and could not be reached for comment.
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http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-754727.html
Who are 'Friends of Duke'?
BY GREGORY PHILLIPS : The Herald-Sun
gphillips@heraldsun.com
Jul 21, 2006 : 8:46 pm ET
DURHAM -- The group that criticized Duke University leaders this week for their handling of the lacrosse rape case came together in cyberspace.
And Friends of Duke University have found growing support via the Internet since publishing an open letter in a full-page ad Wednesday to Duke President Richard Brodhead in the school's student newspaper, The Chronicle.
Who are "Friends of Duke"? ... "A bunch of people speaking out who found each other," Jason Trumpbour, the group's spokesman, said Friday.
Indignation at the perceived mistreatment of the Duke lacrosse team and the three indicted players after a March incident in which they are accused of raping an exotic dancer at a private, off-campus party, was the common ground that brought the group together, Trumpbour said.
The group bills itself as "alumni, parents and friends" of Duke, and is made up of a self-funded, five-person steering committee that maintains a Web site -- http://friendsofdukeuniversity.blogspot.com -- and paid for Tuesday's Chronicle ad.
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The swipe card data is a much bigger deal, imo. If Nodong received that info, it would be fodder for him to target certain boys for special harrassment and badgering about what went on that night.
The addresses are easy to get anyway, and the cops should have and could have gotten their permanent (home/parents) address when they went down to DPD for the torso photos.
The swipe card data is a much bigger deal, imo. If Nodong received that info, it would be fodder for him to target certain boys for special harrassment and badgering about what went on that night.
The addresses are easy to get anyway, and the cops should have and could have gotten their permanent (home/parents) address when they went down to DPD for the torso photos.
Yeah, you've got the sequence right. Investuigate, THEN arrest if you've got the goods.
Yes, investigations usually always continue a lot or at least a little after arrest, but not as a search for your prima facies case let alone your case-in-chief, LOL! On a big case or a case with "hinky" witnesses, you may continue shoring up evidence up to and even into trial, gathering evidence to refute witness testimony, and so forth.
But so far, WRAL hasn't published anything about it. They may have tipped Crotch off.
er.....mmmm.....maybe they didn't sound right. ;>
My thought, too. But Nodong doesn't have the integrity to flush his office of such people, so he won't have Crotch's PC checked by their MIS people.
Gotta love that letter. We'll need more of them.
With Nifong is a liberal Democrat and all the racial implications of this case, the MSM isn't going to get interested in this case.
Has anyone heard anything about the Fresno Football team alleged rape. It's not on my TV!
Race loyalty is so entrenched in a very high majority of black Americans. But I guess that's to be expected when we condone such organizations as the Congressional Black Caucus, NAACP, Urban League, NOI, NBPP, and on to less-known organizations as well as such things as Miss Black America, Black History Month, Kwanzaa, Juneteenth, and all the rest of the stupid crap that the race whores pump out.
What's comical is that they bitch about discrimination but they have black graduations, black proms, and other restricted events.
I can understand it when it comes from air-heads like Georgia Goslee (TOTAL dimwit/affirmative action/peter principle) and nutcase Leo Terrell, but Bob McNeil is a "serious", extremely competent defense attorney.
Looking at his movie list, I'd say he's got the intellect of a gnat. Transformers? Spiderman?
I take it the NC bar exam is not a great challenge.
That's Rod Wheeler, and he's a pretty good guy, not a racist. He's a top-notch detective, NYPD I think. He's become distrustful of Mangum's story, although he was slightly supportive of her early on - but no longer.
I absolutely remember it and yes, the ruling is binding on the court, not the individual judges that come along. He is supposed to follow Stephens' ruling on the permanent record of all open court proceedings. Defense counsel even made a bid for written transcripts of in camera stuff, but Stephens said no.
FRESNO GANG-RAPE ALLEGATIONS 11 year old girl
Okay, there's nothing in the media - they could care less. One little paper has printed a story in the last 5 days by my search.
Just as predicted, the little media stories report this solemnly. The lament the futures of the PLAYERS. There is no judgement. There is no outrage.
I wrote a week ago to look for the sympathetic stories on the Fresno (black) players and the lone recent article lived up to my prediction:
excerpts:
"It's tempting to believe such cases are the result of young men getting out of control because they are far from home with little supervision, says Davis' lawyer, Jack Revvill."
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"Scott, 19, grew up in a tough section of West Palm Beach that offered young men many ways to get in trouble. But he had been "a straight arrow" who knew what he wanted, recalled Dan Sanso, Scott's coach at Palm Beach Lakes High School."
"Scott was a wide receiver, focused, and with good hands _ just the tools that college coaches look for, his coach said."
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"Bouncing from one juco program to another is not unusual for players of Davis' caliber, Jersild said. "Some are trying to better themselves, some of the others are just trying to get away from home, do the wrong things," he said. "They're the bounce-arounds.""
NC justice (which I use euphemistically :>) moves in geologic time. Speaking of time, here in CA a defendant has to waive time or s/he goes to trial in 45 days.
In Reference to the TIMELINE, check out what the Durham Police said in one of the first articles printed on the alleged Gang-rape & beating:
"No one had been charged late Thursday in the incident, which police say happened close to midnight March 13 and into the early hours of the next morning. Alcohol was involved, Durham police Sgt. Mark Gottlieb said."
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/421494.html
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The previous timeline POST also correlates with early Court Documents filed by Nifong and Investigators where the Date of the Crime is listed as MARCH 14th (that'd be after mid-night).
Nifong has some baggage to move along with his timeline apparently.
The ruling is binding on subsequent judges. It can only be undone by one of the parties filing a new motion to change the ruling, followed by a hearing on the motion and then a new ruling is entered, motion granted or denied, or part and parcel such as we saw in the ruling that came down today. If not, utter chaos would reign. They can't move squat as it is, so imagine if they had to re-adjudicate everything already decided when a judge is replaced. That those decisions stand until modified is procedural doctrine in all courts.
Same guy. Rod Wheeler.
No, they asked and were granted all open court proceedings be recorded. Defense even asked for in camera to be recorded, but Stephens denied that.
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