Lacrosse players' defense: Documents being withheld

HeraldSun ^ | September 1, 2006 | William F. West

[Ken H]

Here you go-- http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1697625/posts

[Jezebelle]

I judge you on your thinking, nothing more.

It's not up to the people at Duke to "act poor" just to appease the "townies." That's absurd. The "townies" need to either ignore Duke or show them the same respect they demand for themselves.

[maggief]

(3) the 5 "probes" identified in the records revealed one of child molestation, which I am confident was against ther ex-husband because it was made on the eve of a child support hearing

Do you have the date or more information regarding the child support hearing?

[abb]

Question to the group: Have blog and bulletin boards made the Herald-Sun and the News & Observer superfluous? They've written nothing of consequence for nearly a week, but so what? What say y'all?

[Mike Nifong]

Ken,

I think you have a good idea. It is hard to go back and find information on FR. The farther out the trial is the more dead links and less information accessible to the average user. I particularly like the idea of a timeline thread.

Thanks and Enjoy your weekend!

[GAgal]

Crystal's kids' dad, who wasn't her ex-husband McNeil, was ordered to pay $400 monthly child support for her two kids in 2003. She divorced McNeil soon after the birth of her second child, and her split with the fellow sailor/father came well before 2003.

[GAgal]

So, with the latest defense motion available online, neither paper has reported on what it says? Very odd.

[abb]

Last Saturday's HeraldSun did a story on the filing - see article at the top of this thread. However, it missed much of what was in the filing...

[streeeetwise]

the motion is downplayed in the papers. For example, no way you should be holding emails for months. I mean, if this is critical to the people of Durham (Nufungs premise) get the case moving and turn stuff over. Same with phone data, they are still looking at it--peoples lives are at stake the whole nation is watching and the cop in charge of this data can't get to it!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, this is the stuff of ridicule and disbelief.

[maggief]

Crystal's kids' dad, who wasn't her ex-husband McNeil, was ordered to pay $400 monthly child support for her two kids in 2003. She divorced McNeil soon after the birth of her second child, and her split with the fellow sailor/father came well before 2003.

Looking for a pattern...

Probes:

8-30-2000 Driving While Impaired

9-17-2000 Larceny

10-25-2000 Family/Minor--other offenses

4-26-2004 Child Molestation

Timeline:

8/18/1996 Reported rape by three men three years prior when she was 14

Fall 1996 Joined the Navy

Fall 1997 Married McNeil

8/16/1998 Reported McNeil threatened to kill her 1998 Discharged from Navy

??? Three license suspensions

6/21/2002 Drunken car theft/cop assault

May 2003 Convicted on misdemeanor charges

2005 "Nervous breakdown"

Rap Sheet

[maggief]

Asked how local crime-control efforts stack up against others in North Carolina, Lang also said District Attorney Mike Nifong's office appears understaffed compared to those in other jurisdictions of similar size.

Too much time on the LAX case perhaps ... giving interviews, conducting lineups, DNA testing, intimidating witnesses? ...

[ltc8k6]

The rap sheet appears to cover only the taxi-stealing incident, though.

[maggief]

Has her rap sheet been sanitized?!?

[Locomotive Breath]

Interesting post at John in Carolina: Duke lacrosse: A 60 Minutes proposal

[ltc8k6]

I don't know. You can't help but wonder why the other stuff isn't on there. Except for the child molestation complaint.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Giving them the widest benefit of the doubt, perhaps it is because those other cases are still "open" and she has not been formally charged.

Why they are open is another question altogether.

[NeonKnight]

I know you don't really care, but the CTV bd just opened up. They now allow links to sites that use the FA's name.

Sanity even prevails there sometimes.

[writmeister]

I have wondered about the size of the bathroom since this story broke.

[Locomotive Breath]

Yep - there's been speculation about that since day one. As owner of the house, I can't imagine Duke letting CBS in there. Too bad. It'll have to wait until trial. When it comes out Nifong will be wearing yet another one sunny side up.

[abb]

Pinging the DukeLax List. Online poll rating Brodhead's performance...

http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/