Posted on 11/08/2006 2:41:16 PM PST by CondorFlight
It's still a shock. The St. Petes Times is only a fraction less biased, inaccurate, selective and arrogant as the NYT is.
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/
Glad to be gone
The Herald-Sun's editorial on Nov. 9 regarding the Duke lacrosse rape case was absolutely stunning. I am glad that you are setting the record straight after all this time. For over 200 years, Americans have been under the false impression that in the American system of justice, it was the prosecutor's responsibility for proving, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a defendant was guilty.
Apparently we have had it wrong all along. Now we know that it is the defendant's responsibility for proving their innocence, thanks to your insight when you say, "it would be better for the players to have an opportunity to prove their innocence at trial."
You, your paper and your unwavering support of a corrupt district attorney are a disgrace. I am one of many people I know that are thankful that they no longer live in Durham.
SCOTT BASS
Boise, Idaho
November 14, 2006
Sowell is one of the true scholars of our day. As usual, he doesn't disappoint.
Sounds like another Durham nightmare case of police corruption, cover-ups, misdeeds, malfeasance and treachery.
I read the entire thread, though, and was struck by the lack of knowable facts of any kind presented by the poster. She mentions that there was a suicide note which wasn't analyzed, but she doesn't say what it said. If she knows it was handwritten, she most likely knows its content. There were a few other oddities about her posts, too, but it's hard to know what to make of all of it taken altogether. She wrote so many posts, but it doesn't sound like she's made so much as one trip to Durham. Maybe she really isn't able to, but it does seem odd to me.
Yet another nuclear bomb dropped on Nifong's "case".
Wonder when somebody with authority will finally realize there is no case and never has been?
I don't blame you at all. Duke deserves the scorn. To expect a school to stand by their students until the evidence is in is not unreasonable. Broadhead did not do that. The 88 did not do that. If the school escapes unscathed, history will repeat itself. It always does.
I would send them a letter informing them of my decision.
Now you know that's just a coincidence. Right?
Right?
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Exactly. Nothing short of handcuffs & straitjackets is even going to slow him down. He won. He probably thinks he's the king of the world.
The "benefits" of being a mommy.
And look at how big the boys are. This issue came up in the Mark Chmura trial. The defense reproduced the bathroom to exact dimensions for the jury. There was no way it could have happened the way the accuser claimed.
LieStoppers exposes the agenda mongers who fueled the Hoax:
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2006/11/from-wall-of-silence-to-community.html
Jarriel's 4-6 police statement begins with his picking Crystal up at her parents house around 1:50 in the afternoon of March 11. He says concerning their time at Platinum:
[Saturday, March 11] "We got to Platinum around 11 or 12 where she went in and I remained in the car.
[Sunday, March 12, 2006] "Around 2 a.m. I go inside to find her, she asks if we can stay for about another hour. She then asks me if we can stay just one more hour. We leave at 4:30 when the club closes."
JJ doesn't mention the scenario that the manager describes. I wonder if the incident Ms. Haynes describes occurred the previous night in the early hours of March 11, and perhaps with a different driver?
Jarriel must not have been there, or they'd have gotten him to remove her. Must be 2 different days.
Or Jarriel didn't want the po-po to know something....
Alpha Phi Alpha suspended [Black frat at Duke] -excerpts-
Iza Wojciechowska, The Chronicle, 11/14/06
The Kappa Omicron chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. has
been suspended for a period not to exceed three years, fraternity members
confirmed last week.
The chapter was suspended from the national organization Sept. 6 for an
unspecified violation of fraternity rules and regulations, senior Anthony Collins,
former treasurer of the chapter and a former Chronicle columnist, said in a statement.
"Chapter members are not aware of the specific reason for the suspension," he said.
Adams said the suspension had only to do with national standards and policies
the chapter "did not necessarily share."
http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2006/11/14/News/
Alpha.Phi.Alpha.Suspended-2458227.shtml?sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com&
MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com
* Now this is interesting. Suspended three years for 'unspecified violations'.
Pardon the link, but these Chronicle articles always mess up the margins.
He certainly left some gaps in that statement. He said he remained in the car but doesn't say that the car remained in the parking lot. It's hard to believe that he sat in the car in the wee hours of the morning for 4 1/2-5 1/2 hours.
Excellent article. Nobody should underestimate the ability of the left to organize and to distort objective facts in pursuit of their agenda. MoveOn.org is the tip of the iceberg.
"Chapter members are not aware of the specific reason for the suspension," he said.
Why can't they know why their chapter was suspended?
If it's just a policy, why can't they just announce they are changing the policy and then be reconstituted?
He clearly wanted to avoid detailing what actually happened. Perhaps he supplied the drugs, or didn't want to have to say that Mangum was out of it again as was her usual in order to help her story.
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