Arrests made in Duke lacrosse case

News & Observer ^ | Apr 18, 2006 | Anne Blythe and Benjamin Niolet

[Enterprise]

"What happened to the charge of largency?"

She alleged that someone stole some of her fat?

[Scotswife]

This is too funny!

Because I have pointed out the obvious....that the police would know more than the public...then I have been labelled as a liar, a troll, and now I am "emotional".

Thanks for the giggles.

Good day to you also.

[Coldwater Creek]

Our children are grown adults, who never gave us a minutes trouble.
'
They now have teenagers and college age children of their own. No trouble here either.

Call me whatever you like, but it does not take a rocket scientist to know right from wrong and then teach it to your children.

[notigar]

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2387151

Not quite. 15 of them have had brushes with the law before. The kids assault charge can be dropped after 25 hrs community service in DC. Ain't that serious. Not enough to pressure him on.

[Wallace T.]

Were the accusers and the accused of the same race, or if the stripper were white and the athletes were black, this case would not have seen the light of day, given the weakness of the evidence. But since the stripper is black and the athletes are white, the race issue rears its head. A lot of blacks bear resentment for past injustices, and want to punish whites for the misdeeds of past centuries. Were the DA to dismiss the case, he could face the wrath of black voters (blacks are about one half of the population) or angry mobs in the streets.

In the pre-civil rights era, white DAs and judges were often extremely harsh towards blacks accused of crimes against whites for fear of voter backlash and the lynch mob. The tables have turned with regard to racial power, but the underlying issue is race, whether with the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s or the Duke lacrosse players in the 2000s.

[Perdogg]

Didn't the DA say at NCCU that they beat her? Why were they not charge with aggravated assault?

[Howlin]

NO! That was ACCUSED after a fight, but I don't think it was proved.

He was NOT found guilty of that.

[OldFriend]

you have freepmail

[Coldwater Creek]

I guess that I should have sent Quilla a FR mail. I was complimenting her, and was not speaking of any other parent.

[ZULU]

How about using an object???

Remember the heros - also athletes I believe - from New Jersey and young retarded girl???


LaCross is a sport for young upperclass brats who think their money and parents' position empowers them to use other people of a lesser sort - black or white - as their needs require.

I can't believe the responses I'm reading in this post.


But time will bear out the facts.

[snarkytart]

There are no charges anymore from that incident and he did community service.

[snarkytart]

There are no charges anymore from that incident and he did community service.

[schooter]

Now ask yourself, using the timeline provided by time/date stamped photographs which I posted to you above, when a rape could have occurred.

Clearly, she's not interested in the facts.

[SauronOfMordor]

I agree that conviction, especially on a rape charge, lacking the smoking gun as it were, will be difficult. A plea to a lesser charge, some sort of assault charge, might be the resolution. If you send it to the jury, it's a crapshoot for both sides. As has been noted by others, jury selection becomes paramount.

As was seen in the OJ trial, a jury that is sympathetic to the defendant can acquit even in the face of extreme evidence of guilt

The question is, can a jury whose make up has them being hostile to the defendants vote to convict even in the absence of credible evidence?

[Howlin]

There is nothing to "turn against."

[cdga5for4]

I don't think he'll fall for it but I think that's part of their thought process. Also, when they want to bring up the accuser's past the DA will say that his past is also fair game.

[dfwgator]

"If you're going to hurt someone, you'd better make sure they're the same race as you."

[Guenevere]

My thoughts too...

..appears to me there's been some 'trolling' or 'shopping around' for any embarrassing items in the boys past, and bingo!...they found one, so he is identified as the perp..... has to be guilty!

[Howlin]

You are here for nothing other reason than to cause disruption on this thread.

We've gotten along just fine without you before. And we sure don't need you now.

[Jrabbit]

Since when was the son of a fireman considered upperclass?