[Mad-Margaret]

Don't think this has been posted yet.

http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/463224.html

Wow! A 17-page motion? I hope it's eventually posted.

Also, note that the quasi gag order applies to witnesses! Gee whiz! I didn't know that the Rules of Professional Conduct could be extended to non-lawyers! (They do some weird stuff in that state....)

Was that quasi gag order ever posted anywhere? The judge -- even though he hadn't read all the motions -- had it all prepared in duplicates for his signature.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I haven't seen a 17 page motion, but I am going to be looking, LOL!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

OH OH OH (sounding like Horshack)

It looks like Osborn is setting up a blog page

http://www.currentcaseblog.com/

[maggief]

Too bad they can't gag Jakki, Cash Michaels, Nancy Grace, Georgia, et al. I'd be all for that!

[JLS]

A 17-page motion? I hope it's eventually posted.

I am sure it will eventually be posted. I hope it is posted soon.

Clearly the defense is doing two things here:

1. Forcing Titus to get up to speed by making him read the details of all that Nifong has done.

2. Showing Titus that as they have done in the past, the defense can continue to communicate with the public via motions.

I am beginning to think that if you look up dumb in the dictionary there will be a picture of some Durham judge. I understand the need to SAY to the community that this case is no different that others and these guys will not be treated differently than any other defendants. But you don't take your own rhetoric seriously. Or maybe Titus wants to look bad and make Durham look bad nationally. Like Stephens, Titus was completely in over his depth in his first hearing on this case.

I am shocked that Titus met in chambers before the hearing to discuss publicity. All he accomplished was letting some members of the press claim he took the defense attorneys to task about pre-trial publicity. And as the defense showed him with this motion they can still talk to the public.

I also wonder if Titus was unhappy or reacting to a Nifong complaint that the defense allowed Abrams to read all of discovery. That is of course dumb on Titus' part too as Abram's is an attorney and the defense can certainly say Abrams is a consultant on this case.

[Mike Nifong]

quasi gag-order applies to Witnesses

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Nifong would love to shut up Kim, Murchinson, Johnson, etc.

Nifong will threaten them with being charged if they speak or sell stories now.

[bjc]

The article seems to suggest that the defence was about to launch a campaign of having all the other Duke LAX players make public statements as to their uderstanding as to what did and did not happen at the party. Nifong's subpoena and threat that any team member could be called as a witness and Titus' apparent gag order now seem part of an effort to prevent this from happening. Does Titus' so-called gag order apply to as yet unidentified witneses - who have simply been listed on a subpoena?