been reading the thread..excellent insights from you all, but I have a few coments/questions to toss out..
1. SJB..wonderful plausible reconstruction..here's a twist to consider. Strippers/exotic dancers/prostitutes ALWAYS get the cash up front...It's the first thing they do..So, one would ask, where do they put the money while they perform...Suppose the team agrees to pay them..everything is copacetic..then while they're doing their thing, some of the guys decide, they'll steal the money from her purse...grab her bag..that's what triggered the altercation...
2. Some comments have suggested that she came from an ecort service, a euphamism for prostitution. Has this been addressed/inveestigated yet in the media? It's not real hard to do...
3. Re the team members voluntarily giving DNA samples, how does NC law handle this? If they are cleared, are the genetic profiles destroyed, or are they entered into the state's DNA database for all time?..
The stripper has admitted during press reports that she's also previously been paid to do more than a dance. Maybe she had consential sex with someone at the party, the guy refused to pay so she figured she'd claim rape as payback.
As for what Ga does with the DNA, I can only speak about procedures with CODIS (Combined DNA Index System). CODIS is owned and operated by the FBI and the states sign a contract with them to use the system. The FBI does not allow a state to run a DNA profile through CODIS looking for hits unless that profile has been matched to a crime already entered into CODIS. So the DA can't request all of these guys DNA and try to match them to a crime. What the states do with the profile after not making a match is up to the individual states.