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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.

You don't get raped and then dance. My guess is that there are a few more pictures and phone calls that the defense has that covers a larger time frame. They didn't become relevant until Nifong set his NEW time frame.

The defense can hold them silently. They want HER and NIFONG under oath. Can't wait for the next hearing.

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.

He knows that the identification will be thrown out if the February 5th hearing ever takes place. He's slimey, but he certainly knows what the lineup procedures are and that how they got her to identify who she did would not make it in court. He can then say he did his best, he still feels he brought a solid case but it is now out of his hands because the courts overruled him.

I think people are reading more into this and Nifong than there really is. It was a political move. Nifong most likely thought they were guilty of something short of sexual assault or rape and that they would cop a plea at some point. He just miscalculated and was so arrogant that he didn't consider the illegal things he was doing would ever get exposed either because of the plea he imagined would be made, or because he thought he had every judge "on his side". He just got in over his head and doesn't know what to do. He most likely knew that if a plea was not sought, the case would be thrown out at some point. I think he is at the point where if he unilaterally drops all the charges, his actions over the past nine months would remove his immuninty from civil liability. If a court throws out his case, its less likely his immunity would be affected.

All my opinion, obviously, but I say the Feb. 5th hearing never takes place. If it does, you wont see Crystal there. If he takes her into court and tries to enter here "new" account and identification, he will be way passed "bad judgement" and will have definitely entered the realm of prosecutorial misconduct, maliscious prosecution and other felonies as well.