2nd Duke party dancer now questions doubts about accuser

Daily Comet & AP ^ | April 21, 2006 | ALLEN G. BREED

[Mrs.Liberty]

And no wonder she is emailing a NY PR firm looking for the best way to spin this into a good opportunity for herself.

We'll see her in the National Enquirer.

[Howlin]

A racial slur is worse than a rape....

The things we are learning, huh?

[Crawdad]

So you think making a racial slur is a crime, punishable by humiliation?

Also, alot lot of people believe these young men have, so far, received much more than humiliation.

[pepperhead]

Howlin, did you say (or was it someone else) that some of the families weren't too happy that so much of the defense was being aired?

Well I could see how the rest of the families would not be so happy about the defense being aired. The case against the two accused players could fall apart before trial. And that would leave the rest of the team as the next targets in the witch hunt. But if it was me or someone related to me I would want to end this before it ever got in front of a jury.

[Locomotive Breath]

And would you be similarly upset if she had first said to them "you have tiny little honky d*cks" or some such racial insult?

[Howlin]

Wow, where'd you get that????

[Mrs.Liberty]

I'm telling you...the more I read, the more I wonder about the human race.

[Law is not justice but process]

"To obtain the identification, Durham police showed the woman a photo array that included only photos of the 46 lacrosse team members, sources said. The woman said she was 100 percent certain that Finnerty and Seligmann were involved and 90 percent certain that a third player was involved."

Well, she sure could not have picked anyone but a Lacrosse player, could she? I still cannot believe they could have done something so stupid. It just can't be. Any rookie police officer straight out of the Academy knows better than that.

It just can't be!

[Locomotive Breath]

I think they're figuring that the first jury is the people of Durham in the election. Think of it as a referendum on Nifong's performance. After that, I think the defense will shut up, but in the meanwhile they're countering the media spin favorable to the "poor victim".

[Howlin]

Oh brother. He is just in a crap load of trouble.

BTW, Michael Cardoza is on Fox right now, saying that for all intents and purposes, Kim Roberts is done as a witness for the prosecution because from today forward everybody will be saying "Is she saying that to enhance her payday."


Works for me. :-)

[Law is not justice but process]

" We'll see her in the National Enquirer"

Why settle for the NE when she could get CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC, CNN, or FOX? At a media circus, always sell yourself to the highest bidder.

[GAgal]

Nifong will say it wasn't his fault that May 1 is the day the grand jury meets ... and spits out its next victim.

[dfwgator]

She'll end up on "The Surreal Life" or somesuch show.

[pepperhead]

They have had to pay for lawyers too. They are still paying for lawyers. There is a little more than humiliation going on here.

[Howlin]

No, I do not think there is was a rape. I try to look at each new story and factor it in, but I still do NOT understand why she would try to get back in that house to get her shoe if she had been raped.

And I still think that first 911 call stinks to high heaven.

[Neverforget01]

But if it was me or someone related to me I would want to end this before it ever got in front of a jury.

Oh me too! BUT we are seeing two very different strategies..the Seligmanns being aggressive and the Finnertys being reticent. We'll see which works.

[Mrs.Liberty]

"To obtain the identification, Durham police showed the woman a photo array that included only photos of the 46 lacrosse team members, sources said. The woman said she was 100 percent certain that Finnerty and Seligmann were involved and 90 percent certain that a third player was involved."

Sounds to me (if my legal expertise, gained from hundreds of episodes of Law and Order, is solid), the defense can have these identifications thrown out--don't the police have to have other non suspects in the lineup? Or does this not pertain to photo lineup/ids?

[Jay Gould]

Can you tell me something; is it standard policy to call 911 after a racial slur?



I've never been called what she, allegedly was called.
( by a white person anyway )
Neither myself or anyone I know has ever had that said to our face in a malicious way.
Its extremely rare, so when it happens you know its serious.

Got to get back to work. Glad to hear your thoughts.

[pepperhead]

Oh yeah and they got kicked out of school. Just a little more deserving humiliation for them.

[Howlin]

I agree with you.