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To: TBBBO

Not that I have seen, but here is a story about it:

The defense claims the woman told an investigator for the prosecution in December that the reported attack happened between 11:35 p.m. and midnight on March 13.

The defense goes on to say that claim contradicts the accuser's own cellular phone records, which show an incoming call at 11:36 p.m., and that someone stayed on the line for three minutes.

According to the defense, in her latest statement, the accuser says Reade Seligmann did not commit any sex act on her. Although he was repeatedly urged to take part in the alleged attack, she recalled, he said he could not participate because he was getting married.

The documents point out that in an April interview with police, the woman cited Seligmann as the attacker that she says stood in front of her and forced her to perform a sexual act.

"The accuser's most recent recollection of events demonstrates clearly that she cannot accurately recall and describe her attackers and that any identification made by her is necessarily unreliable," the defense filing said.

The defense also claims the woman now says the attacker she identified as David Evans did not have a mustache after all.

In an April lineup, she told detectives he did.

In that same interview, the accuser also said she was no longer certain she had been raped. That led Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong to dismiss rape charges against Seligmann, Evans and Collin Finnerty.

The three defendants, who have maintained their innocence in the case, remain charged with sexual offense and kidnapping.


125 posted on 01/11/2007 8:31:18 AM PST by Howlin (The GOP RATS - Republicans Against Total Success (Howie66))
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To: Howlin

Based on today's motions, Reade Seligmann could be off the hook -- The Duke Lacrosse accuser's December 21 statements to District Attorney Mike Nifong have just been made public in a 76-page defense motion.

It was because of her statement in that interview that Nifong subsequently dropped rape charges against the indicted players.

According to the filing, in that interview the accuser now claims the attack took place between 11:35 and midnight, which contradicts the accuser's own cell phone records and the cell phone records for Reade Seligmann and his girlfriend.

She recants her April statement that Reade Seligmann was the man who stood in front of her and made her commit a sex act. Now she says Evans was that person and further admits that Reade Seligmann did not commit any sex act on her.

The motion goes on to point out how she recants her April statement that the attacker who looked like Dave Evans had mustache.

The motion also states that the accuser recants her March and April statements that "Matt" Kadam" and "Brett" were three separate people, and now says that they were only two people

In her December statement, the accuser recanted her statement that she was certain that two of her attackers used their penises to penetrate both her vagina and her rectum, and now claims that she cannot be sure about penile penetration at all.

The next scheduled hearing for this case is on February 5th.


127 posted on 01/11/2007 8:32:29 AM PST by Howlin (The GOP RATS - Republicans Against Total Success (Howie66))
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To: Howlin

She can't remember a G--D thing. This is just a farce. I'm ticked.


139 posted on 01/11/2007 8:36:51 AM PST by sissyjane (Don't be stuck on stupid!)
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