everything they said matched what came out LATER. I dont know why NY Times is blind to this point. Why can't they compare statements made in advance that match actual evidence (the DNA) to the credibility of statements written afterwards that don't match. Gottlieb did what defendants normally do, having heard what happened, they try to weave a tale and find it does not fit.
The whole thing continues to sicken me.
About a week later, the sergeant met with the Durham County district attorney to go over the case. For several days, the prosecutor, Michael B. Nifong, had been beseeching Duke lacrosse players to break their "stonewall of silence" about what had happened at a team party on March 13. Now, he turned up the pressure, telling Fox News that there was "no doubt in my mind that she was raped."
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Mr. Evans and the two other team captains who shared the house were there. Police reports say they cooperated fully. Not only had there been no rape, they said, there had been no sex at all. They talked for hours without lawyers, gave DNA samples and offered to take polygraph tests. The officers declined the polygraph offer because, they said, DNA evidence would solve the case.