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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I'm not expecting truth or anything fair from 60M. If they deliver, I'll be presently surprised, but I don't hold any hope of that happening.
Count me as a cynic, too, Jezz. Maybe we'll both be wrong. It's instructive, though that they interviewed, Colin, Reade and David...
Yeah, but the boys don't have any control over how Bradley spins what they say or how he may twist interview snippets/out-of-context remarks they made.
My bet is the gist of the program will be the "hurling of racial epithets"... This is the "get out of jail free" card for Kim and the AV. The boys will most likely spend most of their time defending their reaction to being ripped off, supposedly slapped and ridiculed by two of Durham's finest, "just doing their jobs" to support their "fatherless" children in a white male dominated society..
I still find this angle the most interesting and untouched by many of the main stream pundits and bloggers. THTH maybe. Even Dan Abrams accepted the "unsubstantiated" claims of "they were yelling n....r at us as we left" as a given and the most "disturbing" thing to come out of this affair.
It makes me pause anytime I hear "they yelled n....r at us". Especially after the Blinco investigation basically validated the cook's story except for the racial epithets claims. I do not believe that the Durham cops at Blinco's nor the lacrosse players at the party yelled n....r at either the cook or the strippers. They live and work within a highly integrated and black dominated society, I do not see the Duke students nor the Durham cops, being that cavalier about firing out the dreaded n-word.
If they were "rushing out of the house yelling n....r" in a so called predominantly or highly black integrated neighborhood where they lived, they are either too dumb or unsophisticated to have made it to Duke in the first place.
Bissey who heard the "thank your grandpa" scandalous remark would have also heard them all yelling n....r at the girls. And you can bet your bippy he would have told the cops and the reporters about it.
It would be interesting to know why (from what I've read) the cook is no longer at Blinco's. Was he scared for his personal safety? Was it just a temporary job and it was time for him to move on? Did he get fired or asked to leave because the owner found out how he embellished his story about the attack with the "they called me boy and n....r" standard which is commonly attached to complaints made by blacks against whites.
Every single product produced in the MSM is anti-white male. Every TV commercial, drama, comedy, reality show, game show, sporting event, movie, you name it contains anti-white male undertones. This is not a rant, just an observation, I will be shocked and the first to apologize if 60 minutes breaks out of the mold.
Innocent, but white.
I have watched one too many 60 Minutes hatchet pieces over the years to have a lot of confidence in the fairness of this piece.
That said, I will be interested to hear Reade Seligmann and Colin Finnerty actually speak.
This will be the first 60 minutes episode I'll have watched in many many years. Back when Andy Rooney was funny, before he began his PC penance.
that it was the two strippers who first started calling racial slurs.
I'd heard that and the "slapping" part. Kim's got assault, battery, robbery and rape claims made against her and she gets a sweetheart bond deal and in house probation... whoopty woo
All she has to do is account for an hour and a half out of her entire life...
If one or two players were using racial slurs, it is wrong to blanket the entire team with this behaviour.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/10/11/Columns/Making.Duke.Perfect.Part.I-2343891.shtml?norewrite200610110750&sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com
Making Duke perfect: Part I
Miller time
Stephen Miller
Well said Mr.Miller. Once you have done something productive in your chosen profession (unlike messrs Kennedy, Kerry and Clinton), you should think about running as a candidate for political office.
Like others I will suspend judgment until the actual content and spin is discernible.
I was under the impression that his only business is in the "town". Or did he take the family to Disneyworld on the county's dime?
So what is Kim Roberts Pittman doing now? Writing screenplays?
Kim is an "embezzling specialist". She said, "it's lucrative and tax free. In fact, everything I engage in; prostitution, blackmail, etc. is tax free."
I predict a more traditional "Miller Time" in Master Stephen's near future, no longer adorning the Chronicle on every other Monday.
http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2006/10/duke-case-ground-zero.html
So, Nifong stands to lose 30 grand of his own money if he is not elected? Now there is a motive!
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