Who is going to give her a civil settlement?
1. Any of the lacrosse team members, I doubt it. They don't have any money anyway, some of their parents have money, but she can not sue them.
2. Duke, I doubt it. At one time I thought this was possible, but I suspect now if it came out that Duke gave her a settlement not having apologized to the lacrosse team members their alums would really raise a stink.
Here only chance to cash in would be a book as you suggest or suing Durham county for false imprisonment based on Nifong keeping her away from her family?
JLS, no one is going to give her a civil settlement.
But, do she and her unknown "helper" understand that??
I don't think so.
Just look at what she is trying to salvage. Something, anything, relating to her original claim (I mean from the time she finally started crying rape), whether it would work in court or not. Some of that tracks with what Nifong is also trying to do and some of it doesn't necessarily.
But if she can keep claiming something happened to her there, and if she can keep at least one, if not two (or three...she can claim RS could've stopped it but stood by and watched) of these boys twisting in the wind with her claims, then the dummy probably thinks they will give her something to just shut up and go away.
If they don't, she probably thinks she can write a book which will actually be a fiction novel, about her whole life and this event as well, and that enough people will be curious for her to make something from it.
My problem in trying to conclude anything else is that nothing else makes any sense to me. This is not a criminal court case. I think both of them know that. So I look elsewhere for an explanation.
Whatever Nifong is up to, he does not want nor expect that he will be trying this case. But how he hopes or plans to make it play out I will just have to wait and see.