TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
Twenty Questions
Today's N&O reveals the latest in the Durham Police's inexplicably shoddy investigation into the Duke lacrosse case. On March 14, police initially took the accuser to the Durham Access Center, where involuntary commitment loomed. Three people saw the accuser at the Access Center; one asked her if she had been raped; when she responded yes, this case took a new turn.
Mike Nifong long has claimed a single-page log sheet constitutes the only record of the accuser's 40-minute stay at the Center. A defense motion filed yesterday, however, asserts that at least one Access Center employee took handwritten notes of the accuser's arrival. No explanation exists as to why Nifong has not turned these notes over to the defense, as state law requires him to do.
Much more important, the defense motion contends that "months after the event" police hadn't interviewed any of the three Access Center employees who saw the accuser before she went to the hospital on March 14. It's hard to fathom an innocent explanation for this oversight:
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why isn't the justice system kicking in here?........