How can that be?
Maybe she was raped before she wasn't raped.
They cannot tell that from a medical exam. I don't know where that came from, but they can't tell that from a rape exam. SHE may have told them that, but that is not the same thing as a medical conclusion, lol.
How can that be?
For reference here are defense lawyer Joseph Cheshire’s statements describing the DNA results from this News & Observer article:
http://www.newsobserver.com/710/story/427550.html
The results, the lawyers said, show that investigators collected no genetic material of any kind from the woman. "There was no DNA found in or on her that would indicate that she recently had any sex," Cheshire said.
Investigators found no DNA under the woman's remaining fingernails, or on those taken during the search of the rental house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd., which Duke recently bought in an attempt to quell student parties.
They also found no DNA on the woman's clothing or belongings, players' attorneys said.
This must mean that the lab analyzed the swabs of material taken from the accuser’s body, fingernails, clothing and belongings and isolated any material consisting of DNA. The lab then must have found that either the only DNA present was the accuser’s own DNA, or there was no DNA at all present.
Therefore, to the extent a DNA swab of the woman’s body would necessarily show that she had sex with someone within a certain period prior thereto, no such sex had taken place.
This apparent finding that she had no recent sex actually may help the prosecution slightly. If the SANE nurse examination convinces the jury that the injuries indicate that the woman must have had sex (rape, maybe rough sex) recently, the jury may simply not give much weight to the DNA tests, since the DNA should have shown something the jury believed happened.
The tests found DNA matches to two players, from a towel outside the bathroom and on another object, Cheshire said.
One sample was from a player's semen and another was a different type of DNA, Cheshire said. He said that was to be expected in a bathroom shared by the three men who lived in the house.
So the next thing the lab must have done was test the bathroom rug, towels, and certain other objects in the house for the presence of DNA. If DNA was present, that was then checked to see if it matched either the accuser or one of the 46 students.
The only DNA present was on a towel and another object, and one of the DNA matches was semen and the other something else. I read elsewhere that the two matches were to two of the guys living in the house.