Posted on 04/18/2006 3:26:57 AM PDT by Mad-Margaret
What is your source?
What happened to her fiance? I think I missed that episode.
Bit off the subject, but that attorney who turned in the crooked judge in Washington, did he ever get his bar card back?
Don't they have ATM receipts and taxi receipts?
Explain, pls.
Never mind, I found the answer a few posts later.
Nifong is already synonymous with idiot, IMO. I knew he was an idiot when he "lost" a child rapist last year.
*SHRUG* I won't bother to waste my time explaining the errors in your synopsis and appraisal and how you missed the point of what I said relative to my reference to the movie. I've been to court enough and worked with enough prosecutors to know what goes on and what I'm talking about.
Apparently you're everything people seem to think you are. I think it best that you and I just stick to our respectives frames of reference and discontinue the dialogue.
Agreed.
However, this case has inflamed and provoked many people mostly due to the public comments made by Nifong and his 70 plus media interviews.
Did you notice?
Nancy Grace and some others are jumping on the Defense lawyers and saying they blew it because they've made their defense known - they are locked into a story.
Did you happen to notice that these same people applauded
DA-Nifong when he went on National TV and demonstrated how the accuser WILL TESTIFY that she was grabbed and restrained and how she broke her fingernails fighting to breath and escape.
Curious.
I noticed. BTW, can you remember the father's name who had to go to the media because Nifong's office lost the files and failed to prosecute the man who sexually assaulted his little girl? I can't find record of that online and was wondering if you recall the incident last year (I believe) as it was highly publicized locally.
One does have the taxi and ATM receipts
The other was in a restaurant and the waiter and about 6 people can place him there.
If true and the receipts verify and the witnesses are solid, Nifong should be jailed along side his alleged victim and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and sued.
I remember the case - big time. The local media gave him a pass there too.
I can't remember the name. That's going to bug me now.
Look for him to LOSE the toxicology report on the accuser in this case. 27 years old with 3 license suspensions, a DWI over twice the legal limit, and a drug poss/use charge.
She showed up impaired that night. Pictures of her hopping on one shoe TWO minutes after arriving support that, and the players said WAY back when .. they have consistently said one of the dancers showed up drunk or high.
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I did locate and read the article. Thanks for the lead. I can't say I'm surprised.
I have seen her treat other lawyers sitting as guests on her show abysmally, but tonight was the limit. The lawyers are trained and experienced in giving back as good (or bad) as they get, but there is no excuse for her ridicule and rudeness to laypeople. She was rude to Kevin Miller of WPTF and the young president of the Duke Conservative Union. I was never a faithful viewer, but I will never watch her show again.
You said,
"If true and the receipts verify and the witnesses are solid, Nifong should be jailed along side his alleged victim and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and sued."
I wish that were true. However, I think there's corruption out there and the media won't put any pressure on him to resign or for any action to be taken against either.
As long as Nifong is the DA (I think he will be for some time), the DANCER (accuser) will NOT be prosecuted. She's his girl and she's going to be a local, if NOT national, hero in the black community.
That's one thing I will be the farm on, Nifong will not take action against his girl. No way - No how. For one, there'd be a local revolt and, two, to do so would be an admission he was bamboozled.
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This is a Durham circus. A downright circus. And it hasn't been brought to us by the Defense. But by the Offense.
Here ya go: Yes, BOTH have alibis
But see last sentence -- more importantly the News & Observer caught one of the suspects running a red light! What swagger!
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/18/duke.rape/index.html
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DURHAM, North Carolina (CNN) -- Two Duke University lacrosse team members were charged Tuesday in the rape of a woman hired to dance at a team party, and the district attorney is trying to determine the identity of a third suspect.
Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, both sophomores, are charged with first-degree forcible rape, first-degree sexual offense and kidnapping, officials said.
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"The two that they indicted had no contact with this woman whatsoever," he said. "We are shocked, absolutely shocked. We always thought she would pick out someone who at least had a conversation with her."
Sources close to the investigation said Tuesday that the defense will present evidence -- including ATM receipts -- that neither Seligmann, 20, nor Finnerty, 19, were at the team party at the time the alleged rape took place.
A cab driver allegedly carried one of the young men to an ATM, where a security camera captured his picture, the sources said, and the other man was reportedly at a restaurant.
Deputies brought the two men to Durham County jail before 5 a.m. ET Tuesday, and they were fingerprinted and photographed.
Seligmann waived his right to appear in court and was represented by his attorneys. Finnerty made a brief court appearance. Both men posted $400,000 bail. Their next court date is May 15.
Upon leaving jail, Seligmann ran with another man to a Ford Explorer with New Jersey license plates, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported. The vehicle then ran a red light, according to the paper.
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