Posted on 10/11/2006 1:52:56 AM PDT by abb
DURHAM -- A CBS "60 Minutes" segment on the controversial Duke University lacrosse rape case is expected to air Sunday evening and will include interviews with all three indicted players and Kim Roberts Pittman, the second dancer at the party where the attack allegedly occurred.
CBS would not comment on the show. The network's normal practice is to withhold information about "60 Minutes" broadcasts until a few days in advance.
But Pittman's lawyer, Mark Simeon of Durham, confirmed Tuesday that his client was interviewed. But Simeon ended a telephone conversation before fielding a question about what Pittman told the interviewer.
An exotic dancer at the time, Pittman was with another dancer who claimed she was raped and sodomized by three lacrosse players during an off-campus party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. in mid-March.
Pittman since has been quoted as saying the rape charges were "a crock." She also told police in a March 22 handwritten statement that she and the accuser ended their performance when someone at the lacrosse party "brought out a broomstick and ... said he would use the broomstick on us."
"That statement made me uncomfortable and I felt like I wanted to leave," Pittman added. "I raised my voice to the boys and said the show was over."
Pittman said she then asked the alleged rape victim to leave the party with her. But she said the accuser "felt we could get more money and that we shouldn't leave yet."
According to Pittman, the accuser "began showing signs of intoxication" early in the dance performance and was "basically out of it" by the time it ended.
Pittman finally drove the other dancer to a Hillsborough Road grocery store, from which a 911 call was placed to police.
There is nothing about an alleged rape in Pittman's written statement, which is included in public-record court files.
All three defendants also were interviewed for the "60 Minutes" segment, sources told The Herald-Sun. The interviewer is veteran reporter Ed Bradley.
The three -- Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans -- remain free under $100,000 bonds as they await a trial that is expected to occur next year. Each maintains he is innocent.
Neither they nor their families could be reached Tuesday for possible comment about the CBS show, and their attorneys had no comment.
Defense lawyers apparently will not appear on the television program. Neither will District Attorney Mike Nifong, who has been widely criticized for allegedly rushing to judgment in the case and making inflammatory public statements before he had sufficient evidence.
For the past four months, Nifong has not discussed the situation publicly. He was out of town on business and unreachable for comment Tuesday.
Benjamin Himan and Mark Gottlieb, police investigators in the lacrosse case, also could not be reached. But sources said the two had not been interviewed by "60 Minutes" as of Friday.
The Police Department repeatedly has declined to discuss the lacrosse incident.
It could not be determined Tuesday if a one-time driver for the alleged rape victim, Jarriel Lanier Johnson, was among those Bradley contacted.
"I have nothing to say about it," Johnson told The Herald-Sun by telephone before hanging up.
But Johnson gave police an April 6 handwritten statement about an "appointment," "a job" and a performance the accuser had at three different hotels in two days not long before the alleged rape.
Johnson also said she had sexual intercourse with him during the same time period.
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LOL! Luvvit! I can't stand that woman - makes me gag.
That kind of news definitely comforts him, and I would not be surprised if he and his mates might lurk here from now on. I also told him the story about a friend of our family who is a bit older than him but played HS lax in the Catholic schools in Jersey and played against him for one year. He told me that Reade was a great kid and had a great reputation (even though he was a big stud lax player). When I told him that he said "awesome" and smiled. He's doing well and appreciates all the support.
I hope at some point she rats him out for giving her a deal in exchange for her "cooperation" on the Duke case. Probably won't happen until after he loses the election - IF he loses the election.
To your #1: You're absolutely correct in your interpretation of that segment, up to and including the fact that Kim is going to throw Nifong under the bus. (Look for her to be attacked by the black community in Durham.)
As to #2, my husband said the exact same thing! He doesn't watch much TV and only agrees to it being "on" so I'll eat dinner with him at night.......LOL. He was FLOORED!
I'm going to put up a separate LIVE THREAD for that one!
Maybe she kept asking it because she knew the boys wanted their money back - some of them did, anyway - and since Mangum was falling apart and didn't have all of her stuff and she (Kim) was mad at the boys, she wanted to know that they didn't take Mangum's money back.
Or she ripped Mangum off. But I don't see where advancing a complaint call against the boys that she wasn't going to show up for - maybe watched from down the street - would give her cover for ripping Mangum off. The only person she would have to worry about is Mangum's pimp, and he isn't going to be privy to the 911 call. I think the 911 call was unrelated and just done for spite because she was mad.
The one thing that I cannot figure out is that first phone call.
You would have thought a call like that would have been make by the fake accuser.
Why would they want to talk to him AFTER the fact when they didn't care to talk to him BEFORE the fact?
Please ping me to that thread.
Glad to!
Well, Mangum wasn't raped, so Kim didn't help with a rape. If someone said I helped with a rape, it would piss me off big time. I'd be ballistic, in fact.
The simple fact that Mangum said this and Kim wasn't indicted for aiding the felonies the boys have been charged with says a lot about what Nifong really believes - which is that he, too, knows there was no rape.
Me too!! Thanks in advance.
You're added!
Oh absolutely!
Kim has some street smarts, but in any sophisticated sort of way. If she did, she'd never have sent that email and she'd never have wavered on the truth. The truth puts her in a better light than her lies and manipulations have. A calm woman quietly telling the truth with her head held high would have been a better image than that which she has presented thus far.
If you've read Kim's letter to the public relations group in NY, you can see that she is not an uneducated guttersnipe. Her grammar, punctuation, vocabulary and sentence structure are quite good. She didn't need to go down the road of acting and looking like trash. That was a mistake and it wasn't "smart." She's obviously trying to rehabilitate that image. That IS smart.
The scary thing is that the guys could have been less clean cut - with a few more black marks in their backgrounds and a few less connected parents - and it would have been easier for Nifong to get them railroaded. The real issue here is how easy it is for a DA to corrupt our entire LE process for his/her own nefarious purposes. Let's hope some good will come of exposing the fragility of the system. It is episodes like this that makes me anxious about my support for capital punishment.
Then why did CBS promote her?
"Roberts, who danced at the same party as the accuser where the alleged incident took place, told "60 Minutes" correspondent Ed Bradley in an interview that she didn't help the accuser get dressed after the alleged incident, nor was she physically separated from the accuser by the Duke lacrosse players at any time. The accuser said in her police statement that both occurred."
Huh? I don't remember anything about Kim telling the cops she helped Mangum get dressed after the alleged incident. Kim told the cops nothing happened to Mangum and that the story was a crock. As for being separated, she said they were never separated except once for less than 5 minutes.
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