It's Time for Justice: Drop the charges vs. Duke lacrosse players

The Mercury News ^ | October 16, 2006 | Jason Whitlock

[zaxxon]

The charges against the Duke lacrosse players should be dropped immediately, and the people demanding the dismissal the loudest and most forcefully should be the very people who have made a living allegedly fighting against racial injustice.

I've said this before, but it's worth saying again: Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton should be in Durham, N.C., today, promising civil disobedience until the charges are dropped and prosecutor Mike Nifong resigns.

Ed Bradley and "60 Minutes" should never be mistaken for Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court. Bradley is just a TV reporter and "60 Minutes" is just a TV show, but you couldn't help but be moved by the story they aired Sunday night about the Duke lacrosse rape allegations.

The three accused players gave their first interviews, and two of them claimed they had airtight, documented alibis. The accuser's one-night sidekick, Kim Roberts, seems to have settled on telling the truth rather than trying to spin the story for fame or money. She contradicted several of the statements the accuser gave to police.

[JLS]

That is an article puts the NCCU reporter in such a bad light I am a bit surprised the St. Pete Times would publish it. Are they arguing for hiring no black reporters because they can not be objective? I would expect an article on the bias of black reporters like that in the KKK monthly news letter.

Fortunately, Ed Bradley, Jason Whitlock, LaShawn Barber, etal have shown by example that not need be the case with real reporters who are black. This college student needs to grow up and drop her biases if she wants to be a real reporter.

BTW when I got to this sentence:

When police arrived, the woman told them she had been raped.

I had to start wondering if the reporter for the Times and maybe the NCCU student know nothing about this case. To screw up such a basic fact in the case is either just sloppy or bias or ignorance.

[JLS]

Mr. Hall is a real man and steps up to the plate and says, I was wrong on this case early on. That is even harder to do that those who did not comment early on now saying the case is a crock.

Perhaps someone should link that to both Sheehan's and Sills' blogs at the N&O site. If Mr. Hall can step up to the plate and admit he was wrong early on, why can't a big organization like the N&O? I have to go to class of a couple of hours. If no one else links it by then, I will try to this afternoon.

[darbymcgill]

I haven't heard any convincing circumstances being discussed about not only who would do such a thing, but why such an elaborate plan would have been discussed.

All you gotta do is ask yourself why everyone tied to this hoax keep changing their stories, except for the accused,

[Sue Perkick]

Because people telling the truth don't need to change their story to make the facts fit.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Our case started with a complaint to her teacher the next morning by the young 16 year-old accuser that "words" had been exchanged. We got a letter for a three-day suspension, the next day, Friday, she alleged that he had threatened her (i.e. fight) by saying he was going to "shank her black ass" (son had to ask what "shank" meant) -- 10 day suspension. When that didn't effect the desired result, she had her mother bring her to the police station and alleged that he held scissors to her throat and threatened to cut her throat, bingo (i.e. safety scissors he had been using in the Dark Room to trim a negative to fit in the "pancake" developer)! It went to 180 day suspension, a felony charge of "attempted felonious use of a weapon." Even though there was another person in the room who said there were never any scissors, struggle or touching.

At the preliminary hearing (no investigation, mind you), she got on the stand and said she never saw any scissors, it could have been a ball point pen. Just who could have the ability to orchestrate such an elaborate hoax? Well, we had that covered, too. Her next door neighbor whom she told two weeks before she pulled her stunt that she was going to do it because she didn't want my son to go D-I on a Football Scholarship. She told her neighbor that our son was a "cocky white bastard who needed to be taught a lesson." Who, indeed?

When the neighbor tried to tell the school authorities and police what she had done, she threatened, "I'll do to you what I did to (our son)." He called us and asked us to help him. I told him to go to the police, but guess what? He didn't trust the police or the school anymore. That's the bottom line, end result of injustice -- it endangers us all.

[ltc8k6]

http://wilmingtonjournal.blackpressusa.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=73330&sID=4

The return of Cash to the prosecution side.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

"attempted felonious use of a weapon." I mispoke, the original charge was "felonious assault with a weapon". The charge was reduced to "attempted felonious use of a weapon." He's 6'4 and 225 lbs, a tremendous athlete, if what she said had been true, it wouldn't have been "attempted," it would have been a done deal. He had never been in trouble in school, never been in a fight, never said the "N" word, or gotten into a war of words with anyone, brought a variety of students home for dinner, overnights and pre-game meals. He was, and is, a gentleman, albeit now a very, very cautious one. Not perfect, but well brought up in a color-blind home.

He did get in trouble at college last week, he was asked to leave the team meeting because he had been goofing around in between lifts in the weight room. He came home in complete terror because he had never been put in a disciplinary position before. I told him to suck it up, stop jacking around in the weight room, give 100% and get over it. This is not a kid who was a "problem child."

[Locomotive Breath]

“I thought it was pretty one-sided, but that’s to be expected,” said Chapel Hill civil rights attorney Al McSurely, who also serves as chairman of the NC NAACP Legal Redress Committee. “The prosecution hasn’t shown any of its whole [sic] cards yet, and I don’t think it will until trial.”

How many more dumbasses are we going to have to put up with thinking that Mike Nifong has evidence that he's kept hidden? If he is he's breaking the law.

"Whole card"

[Locomotive Breath]

In fact, Joyner adds, there is a lot of evidence and witness testimony that simply isn’t reduced to writing.

“I’ve been practicing law long enough to know that what ends up in a report isn’t necessarily everything that’s there, “ he said, adding that, for instance, clarification of evidence or information in a criminal case is not required to be part of the discovery package mandated from the prosecution to the defense.

“Just because [evidence] has been released, doesn’t mean that’s it,” Prof. Joyner said.

Translation: Mike Nifong's got people lined up to lie on the stand for him.

[Locomotive Breath]

The video purporting to show the alleged victim pole dancing at a nightclub two weeks after the alleged assault was secured by CBS News, not the attorneys, atty. Bannon and Tedesco confirmed. The spokesman would not say where or how the video was surreptitiously taken, or by whom.

[ltc8k6]

Nifong enablers.

That is how he gets away with this.

[darbymcgill]

The return of Cash to the prosecution side.

That's exactly what I mean about "yeah buts"... The 60 minutes show addressed "the rape". Caah, Joyner and others want to talk about everything but, "the rape".

Pissing, drinking, swearing, EWW, whatever. The boys haven't been charged with these crimes yet... only kidnapping and rape..

Another straw man that Joyner and Cash are erecting is the "we only saw the defense evidence" on 60 minutes. From what I saw, other than RS, DE, CF, and Kim's interviews the majority of the facts came from the prosecution's discovery files. (except the pole video and RS alibi). I don't think Joyner and Cash have any idea how bad that show could have been for the AV if the defense gave over even a tenth of what they already have collected.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Prostitution, Protection, Drugs, Corruption

From the bottom to the top.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

I wonder where Willie Drewery is hanging out these days?

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Sleuth this- why did Leary and Cheek meet with the DA early in March BEFORE the party occurred?

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I remember reading about this. They pissed Nifong off,IIRC.

I think they offered Nifong some friendly advice.

Gotta go look it up.

[darbymcgill]

Do you think the AV knows that probably everything she's done from, let's say March 20th or so, someone was watching or listening?

I wonder if she's curious about Brian and Jarriel carrying dayplanners and what's all those gizmos they keep charged up.

[Locomotive Breath]

Knowing that nothing's going to happen to her personally, I have begun wondering if she's laughing at Nifong twisting in the wind while she does whatever she wants.

[darbymcgill]

“Just because [evidence] has been released, doesn’t mean that’s it,” Prof. Joyner said.

Didn't former POTUS, WJC get his PhD in B.S. from NCCU

[Constitutions Grandchild]

“I thought it was pretty one-sided, but that’s to be expected,”

From 60 Minutes??????????????????

I think not, unless it was for the victim's side of the story.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

If so, it explains a lot.