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Arrests made in Duke lacrosse case
News & Observer ^ | Apr 18, 2006 | Anne Blythe and Benjamin Niolet

Posted on 04/18/2006 3:26:57 AM PDT by Mad-Margaret

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To: Mad-Margaret
This case will not result in a conviction based on the known evidence. This is a weak case.
341 posted on 04/18/2006 6:47:47 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (El Chupacabra spotted near U.S./Mexican border feeding on illegal immigrants. Pass it on..)
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To: Scotswife
If a grand jury indicts them, then there is enough evidence to go to trial.

Guess you don't believe in the old statement that "A good DA can get an indictment against a ham sandwich".

342 posted on 04/18/2006 6:47:59 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: laconic

They are calling this case Bonfire of the Varsities.


343 posted on 04/18/2006 6:48:01 AM PDT by Peach
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To: panthermom

I agree. This is what I was wondering also. IF she was the goody goody that some of her friends said, then she may have had to have a "booster" to get her started - sort of like a guy who can't dance but after a beer or 40 he can dance his @ss off.LOL


344 posted on 04/18/2006 6:48:08 AM PDT by gopheraj
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To: mariabush

That was because they added words that I did not say.


345 posted on 04/18/2006 6:48:22 AM PDT by TommyDale
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To: gopheraj

Her friends are saying she was a goody goody? LOL

Maybe they didn't read the interview the accuser gave a few weeks ago to N&O where she admits she'd been giving one-on-ones for a few months.


346 posted on 04/18/2006 6:49:09 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Peach
MSNBC reports a press conference will begin in 10 minutes.

I missed who will be giving the press conference.

347 posted on 04/18/2006 6:49:44 AM PDT by Peach
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To: Peach

"I'm sorry about your family member. But I don't think this is a waste of time; it's what we do on FR. Speculate and talk and tear apart stories that don't make sense."

That's the problem.
The story is never going to make sense - until the trial.
Trying to tear it apart now is futile, because I can guarantee that the police and the DA have 5 times the information than anyone here does.


348 posted on 04/18/2006 6:49:48 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: maggief
white males fantasizing about black women is -- is quite old, quite -- and quite ugly, and now quite illegal.--Jesse Jacka$$

Fantasizing about a black woman is illegal? Well, lock me up Jesse.

349 posted on 04/18/2006 6:50:11 AM PDT by flada (Posting in a manner reminiscent of Jen-gis Kahn.)
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To: Mad-Margaret
I have not kept a close watch on this one but have read enough to be convinced it is a crime, not by the kids but by the prosecutor and the dancer.

I have watched enough court TV that if I were an innocent person, I would be terrified of going before an American jury. If I were guilty, I would love it.

350 posted on 04/18/2006 6:50:42 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: laconic

I heard that Wolfe reference early on in the 'case'.


351 posted on 04/18/2006 6:50:46 AM PDT by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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To: Brytani

Now, before anyone asks, the presence of spermicide would not preclude the presence of DNA. The spermicide kills the sperm, it does not destroy the cellular makeup of sperm and semen.



So, IOW there should have been DNA present since she did not bathe...that is why the DA was so confident at first that the DNA would give us the rapists...when the DNA came back neg the DNA changed his opinion and said that the absence of DNA means nothing.........which I don't buy for a minute..


352 posted on 04/18/2006 6:51:23 AM PDT by mystery-ak (Army Wife and Army Mother.....toughest job in the military)
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To: PBRSTREETGANG

"Guess you don't believe in the old statement that "A good DA can get an indictment against a ham sandwich"."

It's the system we have - love it or leave it.
He had to convince the Grand Jury, and the level of evidence is less stringent for a Grand Jury than it is for a trial.
That's the way it is.


353 posted on 04/18/2006 6:51:27 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Guenevere

I'll second that.


354 posted on 04/18/2006 6:51:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Guns themselves are fairly robust; their chief enemies are rust and politicians) (NRA)
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To: Peach

Then why did they lay this cloud of suspicion on the entire team for so long?


355 posted on 04/18/2006 6:52:05 AM PDT by panthermom
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2 Duke Players Charged, DA Hopes For Third


WNCN-TV
9:43 a.m. EDT April 18, 2006

EXCERPT



"It had been my hope to charge all three of the assailants at the same time, but the evidence available to me at this moment does not permit that," District Attorney Mike Nifong said. "Investigation into the identity of the third assailant will continue in the hope that he can also be identified with certainty."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12369776/from/RS.1/


356 posted on 04/18/2006 6:52:26 AM PDT by maggief
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To: Peach

"I'm sorry about your family member."

Thank you for your kindness...but don't feel sorry for him.
Feel sorry for his poor wife and their young children.


357 posted on 04/18/2006 6:52:36 AM PDT by Scotswife
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To: sirchtruth

"Fine, where's his DNA on the woman?"

I don't know, but it could be in the condom he used. I don't know about you, but in the unlikely event that I had intercourse with a stripper I didn't know, I'd be using a condom, drunk or sober.

I'm going to withhold all opinion on this case until after the trial and after reading all the evidence that's produced. It's way too early to draw conclusions in this one.


358 posted on 04/18/2006 6:53:21 AM PDT by MineralMan (non-evangelical atheist)
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To: listenhillary; All

"At the sound of flushing, the group tensed, raised cameras and prepared. Nifong did not emerge with news"

Translation: Gaseous emmissions only; still constipated!


359 posted on 04/18/2006 6:53:28 AM PDT by mdmathis6 (Proof against evolution:"Man is the only creature that blushes, or needs to" M.Twain)
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To: Brytani
The results shows no latex, no spermicides, no lubricant.

Has that been definitively reported? I've only heard "No DNA," and that the DA suggested the assailant could be wearing a condom.

360 posted on 04/18/2006 6:53:51 AM PDT by jude24 ("The Church is a harlot, but she is my mother." - St. Augustine)
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