Posted on 04/10/2006 4:40:10 PM PDT by Perdogg
DNA testing failed to connect any members of the Duke University lacrosse team to the alleged rape of a stripper, attorneys for the athletes said Monday.
Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said the test results prove their clients did not sexually assault and beat a stripper hired to perform at a March 13 team party.
No charges have been filed in the case.
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I can't. But we're getting this from the defense attys. So, I wouldn't exactly trust it. The state seems to think they can bring a case.
I would!!!
In fact, I'd give her 3 maximum sentences to run consecutively.
You're absolutely right Okey Dokey, Duke threw these 47 students under the bus. Watch now, the Duke administration is so committed to pandering to Duke's radicals and the Durham black community that they will continue to vilify their own students. If I were recruiting against Duke in any sport I would point out to the prospective student-atheltes parents that this could be your son on national TV being falsely accused of heinous crimes and Duke would help the accusers.
I'd kind of wonder why it was on the kid's mind though.
How could it still have happened if there was no medical signs of intercourse and no DNA found at all?
Sorry, but that is an impossibility....
Reminds me of the movie Innocent Victims, set in Fayetteville, NC in 1985. The overzealous prosecuter from the District Attorney's office makes a swift conviction of an Army sergeant Tim Hennis accused of murdering the wife and children of an Air Force captain. He spends some years on death row before a second trial ultimately turns up hitherto unknown evidence, surprise rebuttal witnesses, and a startling eyewitness testimony and he is set free. The movie was telecast on ABC in 1996 and more recently on Lifetime.
Condoms leave traces, like latex.
None of that was present.
The state seems to believe otherwise. We haven't seen any evidence in this case yet.
Good point, but I would expand that thought beyond athletics to academic recruiting too. I'm so thrilled my daughter turned Duke down.
These are the people who want to think of Duke as a safe and wholesome environment for somebody's kids.
Now if you think Duke ought to have a different sort of environment............... give money!
sounds like the story needs to be reworked...
What was name of Kobie's lawyer?
Inside jokes don't translate well with the media clowns who were out for a rape story.
Did you notice that the other e-mails exonerating the students were never leaked, or if leaked, never printed by the media?
I'd be digging into the academic backgrounds of those fellows ~ in the meantime we wait for the DA to make a statement.
There was a case at Dook Gardens in 1994 or 1995 where a young man was accused of rape. When the DNA tests came back negative, the DA refused to pursue the case. My inside source said that there was a belief that the young man had actually planted "other" DNA.
I can't imagine the state would charge first and then wait for DNA test results later.
Young, drunk, horny guys are usually not too concerned with condoms...the notion that they used some high-tech "new chemistry" condoms is just downright silly...
Unless, of course...they'd been in contact with space aliens.
The guys have said since day one that no sex took place whatsoever...they could have claimed consensuality (common rape defense), but they maintained NO SEX...by common sense standards, the evidence appears to be supporting their claims.
The State thought it had an open and shut case.
Without DNA results? Until the state dismisses the case there's gotta be some there there.
The claim was about 3 of 'em. Definitely been to some parties where I had no idea what other folks were up to ~ was even proposition once by John Dean's wife ~
Rape by object comes to mind, although it's not been characterized as such in this case.
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