[Mike Nifong]

ONe problem the record does not show those "internal" tests revealed any damage.

From the Liberal NYT:
"The sergeant, Mark D. Gottlieb, reviewed the medical report, which did not say much: some swelling, no visible bruises."

Why wasn't any of this in the record? This is like an urban legend. Did the people working on this woman read the papers - read about her terrible injuries her father described on local Television and recall the incident incorrectly?

The Record has none of this.

[RecallMoran]

Gottlieb's report will help the defense if this debacle ever goes to trial because of its internal inconsistencies, contradictions, lateness and convenient and easily discredited explanations (as you point out, the report is consistent with incorrect media reports, not actual records).

Actually, my first reaction when reading the NYT story is that Nifong or someone in his office wrote it for Gottlieb. Only a lawyer could produce a 33 page typewritten report, based upon 3 pages of handwritten reports, that attempts to plug every hole in a legal case and sounds like a legal brief. Police reports are factual, and Gottlieb's is very argumentative.

[jennyd]

Exactly. Even when Gottlieb claimed that police officer noted bruises on the woman (starting to develop), NYT admits the officer's report does not mention bruises. And that was a few days after the party.
And how long does it take the bruises to develop anyway?
After two days, I would think the bruises should have been developed.
Yet no one but Gottlieb is able to see them.