He's still going to proceed ??
WTF??????
I predict this will go away when the victim can't identify which 3, out of the 40+ players, were the attackers. There's no way the DA can prosecute all of them and expect to get any convictions.
When this case first came out, the DA made a statement that he would go forward even if the DNA wasn't positive. Leads me to believe 1) that he thinks he has other evidence and 2) he didn't expect to find DNA.
Perhaps the DA is talking to Dan Rather about how to proceed with something even though you have no actual evidence to back it up.
Of course he will proceed, the criminals are white, the innocent stripper is black. There can be no doubt this is not only a normal rape, but a HATE RAPE as well.
I hope these three players sue Duke University and Durham for every cent they have. DNA doesnt lie, but.......PC takes precedence.
Sometimes you've just gotta admit defeat.
And, maybe say you're sorry.
This should all have been done before publicity and indictments.
WRAL poll:
Defense attorneys for Duke men's lacrosse players say DNA samples do not match evidence recovered from a woman who claims she was raped by three lacrosse athletes. Should Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong proceed with the criminal case?
Choice Votes Percentage of 2720 Votes
Yes 407 15%
No 2036 75%
I don't know 277 10%
Thank you for participating in this unscientific poll.
Yeah, why let evidence deter you when you've already made up your mind and your liberal buddies are anxiously hoping for a "mean white perpetrators, innocent black victim" cause célèbre? Now it looks instead more like a run-of-the-mill dog-bites-man story instead, something that will not interest the NY Slimes, Washington Compost, Atlanta Urinal & Constipation, etc.
In a nation of laws and honest prosecutors, the woman who brought these false charges would immediately become the subject of prosecution. But, hey, that doesn't fit the template the lamestream media wants.
Nifong knows he only needs to get past the May 2 date of the primary election (I gather there is not even a Republican opponent for the general election), without looking bad in front of his base (Durham DemocRats). So I will not be surprised to see him try to string the process out for another three weeks and try to keep it from collapsing before then.
So today he goes to NCCU and tries to take the temperature of the crowd. Are they baying for blood? Or are they being swayed by the no DNA results? Assuming they are still agitating for charges, Nifong then consults over the next few days with his key supporters and contributors to sense what their current feeling is on the case. If the base and his key supporters are still wanting him to go after the Duke students, then Nifong takes his case to a grand jury and gets a true bill against three of the players, probably going after the ones who lived in the house.
During this time, Nifong publicly says little substantively about the evidence but does go to great lengths in interviews to talk about how people should let the justice system do its job, etc.
Weeks pass with little happening publicly, as the two sides prepare for trial.
Then, after the May 2 election, and probably well before trial, the case collapses, perhaps with the DA announcing that the charges will be dropped because the accuser is not willing undergo the trauma of having to testify, just wants to put it behind her, and the DA says he is not so inhumane as to force her to go forward.
They also have footage of her in a time stamped photo (from security type cameras I think) that show cuts and bruises BEFORE the alleged rape took place.
This woman scammed the prosecutor and it's going to take a few days for it to sink in with him.
This jerk, Nifong, has taken a page out of Ronnie Earle's playbook: Ruining lives through malicious prosecution all because of politics.
Sickening...
These guys are guilty of being white males who arent afarid to do things men do, play rugby and drink beer. They are also guilty of being born in a time where being a white male borders on being either criminal or dumber than crap. White males are the butt of every stupid act in tv commercials, always the criminals on tv programsand the greatest problem in society today. It makes you wonder how we survive as a country. Screw these left wing facists.
OK Nifong, which 3? You are ruining 43 lives that by your own admission had nothing to do with it.
Either pick 3 and file charges or drop the whole thing.