Posted on 04/13/2006 3:21:02 PM PDT by ghost of nixon
DURHAM, N.C. -- A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by members of Duke University's lacrosse team was described as "just passed-out drunk" by one of the first police officers to see her, according to a recording of radio traffic released by Durham police on Thursday and obtained by The Associated Press.
The conversation between the officer and a police dispatcher took place about 1:30 a.m. March 14, about five minutes after a grocery store security guard called 911 to report a woman in the parking lot who would not get out of someone else's car.
The officer gave the dispatcher the police code for an intoxicated person and said the woman was unconscious. When asked whether she needed medical help, the officer said: "She's breathing and appears to be fine. She's not in distress. She's just passed-out drunk."
The black woman, a 27-year-old dancer and college student, told police she was sexually assaulted and beaten by three white men around midnight at an off-campus party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team. The racially charged allegations have led Duke to cancel the highly ranked team's season and accept the resignation of its coach.
No charges have been filed, but district attorney Mike Nifong has said he believes a crime was committed. Attorneys for the players have said DNA tests failed to connect any players to the alleged attack, and they have urged Nifong to drop his investigation.
The radio recordings, obtained by the AP through a records request, are the first instance in which police or anyone connected with the investigation has said the woman appeared to be intoxicated.
Defense lawyers, however, have said time-stamped photographs taken by the players show that the accuser was drunk and had already suffered some injuries when she arrived at the house for the party.
The recording is consistent with "what I have seen of the photo evidence before," attorney Kerry Sutton said. Those photos, she said, showed that she was "way beyond where you would put somebody behind the wheel of a car."
The description of the woman's medical exam -- which Nifong has said is his basis for believing a rape occurred -- does not mention her being drunk. It states only that the woman's injuries and behavior were consistent with having been raped, sexually assaulted and having suffered a traumatic experience.
The woman has told police she and another dancer hired to dance at the party arrived at 11:30 p.m. March 13. The pair reportedly left the house a short time later, fearing for their safety. The accuser told police the two were coaxed back into the house with an apology, at which point they were separated. That's when she said she was dragged into a bathroom and sexually assaulted, beaten and choked for a half-hour.
At 12:53 a.m., police received a 911 call from a woman complaining that she had been called racial slurs by white men gathered outside the home where the party took place.
The defense has said it believes the second dancer at the party made that call. The 911 call from the grocery store security guard was placed at 1:22 a.m.
In it, the caller says, "Um, the problem is ... it's a lady in somebody else's car and she will not get out of their car. She's like, she's like intoxicated, drunk or something. She's, I mean, she won't get out of the car, period."
A police spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment on the radio traffic.
The case has focused intense national scrutiny on Duke and the lacrosse players and has sparked protests on the elite private university's campus and elsewhere in Durham. The school last week canceled the highly ranked team's season and coach Mike Pressler resigned after the release of a vulgar and graphic e-mail sent by a team member shortly after the alleged assault.
Several of the defense attorneys say they expect the district attorney to ask a grand jury on Monday to issue charges in connection with allegations.
"Rest up on Sunday," Sutton said.
There has been no official word, however, on whether Nifong intends to present the allegations Monday. His next opportunity would come two weeks later.
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See if you can snag it off one of the two links on this page:
http://www.wral.com/news/8674929/detail.html
I can't find the transcript.
This is the last part of it:
The conversation between the officer and a police dispatcher took place about 1:30 a.m. March 14, about five minutes after a grocery store security guard called 911 to report a woman in the parking lot who would not get out of someone else's car.
The officer gave the dispatcher the police code for an intoxicated person and said the woman was unconscious. When asked whether she needed medical help, the officer said: "She's breathing and appears to be fine. She's not in distress. She's just passed-out drunk."
Poor taste is not a crime.
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More like the Hustle.
Well, I posited a theory about Kim not wanting to give Mangum a ride because the guys wanted their money back from Mangum and Kim may have been afraid the guys would chase them in the car. so she wanted Mangum to either leave the money or get her own ride, which may have been what was being discussed in the bathroom.
Maybe calling 9-1-1 (and being so explicit about the address) was to get the cops over there so they could either go back for Mangum's stuff while the cops were there or else because they were afraind the guys were going to follow them. They may have been sitting right up the street watching, ready to drive up (or Kim drop Mangum there), if the guys opened the door to the cops. Since nobody answered the door at the house when the cops arrived at 12:55, there would have been no way for Mangum to enter to get her stuff and maybe get the cops to force the guys to pay up, which could also then and only then (because nobody answered the door so she couldn't get her stuff or her pay) become the motive for the false rape charge. Maybe Mangum was afraid of a beatdown so she didn't want to go home, and she was too drunk to drive, but Kim wanted to get rid of her, so she just wasn't going to budge from Kim's car.
It's just another theory.
ROFLMAO! You're too much.
Bad link?
Got the 404 error
Do you think he's coming to "heal" the town?
Try again:
http://www.wral.com/news/8674929/detail.html
Two players' names to be presented to GJ
Wanna bet the two who live there with DNA on their towel?
News from the Herald-Sun:
http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-724236.html
/excerpt
Defense: Jurors to get names Monday
DURHAM -- The names of two Duke University lacrosse players suspected of raping an exotic dancer at a North Buchanan Boulevard house party will be presented to Durham's grand jury for possible indictment on Monday, defense lawyers said Thursday.
But even though they were confident about the imminent grand jury action, the lawyers said they don't know which two names would be submitted.
Meanwhile, a police communications tape was released Thursday in which an officer describes the woman who later told police she was gang-raped as "unconscious" and "passed out drunk."
The three lawyers who said the case would go to the grand jury -- Kerry Sutton, Bill Thomas and James D. "Butch" Williams -- declined to say why they are confident it would be Monday.
It is known that all three met with District Attorney Mike Nifong on Thursday morning.
In addition, the defense lawyers said Nifong's office informed them that DNA samples from some of Duke's lacrosse players were sent to a private laboratory on April 6, and that test results were expected within three to five days. Despite the prediction, no results had been given to the lawyers as of 6 p.m. Thursday, they added.
/end excerpt
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Try this:
http://nbc17.feedroom.com/iframeset.jsp?ord=216199
it's the first story on the left.
Since Kim and Crystal didn't know each other, I wonder why Kim cared?--maybe they share the same pimp?--
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So solly :^(
good theory on possible motive for the 911 call
Whether it is likely IMO depends on if the accuser was really unconscious at the time she was placed in the car, then less likely to be the case
I'm betting it will be a good sign if charges will be filed. if Al comes, we know what will happen Monday! He sure does not want the old memories stirred as in the Brawley case.
I'll bet you $50 the first motion the defense makes it to quash her identification.
First of all, she didn't pick anybody until last week, after a month of their pictures being on every tree, car, and pole -- and the front page of the N&O for a month.
And I'd be really interested in hearing how he plans to explain how a woman who was dead drunk at 1:22 a.m. on March 14th can remember who did ANYTHING to her 45 minutes before that.
She is likely a freak dance expert.
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