Posted on 12/13/2006 1:36:38 PM PST by Howlin
A private laboratory hired by the prosecution in the Duke lacrosse case failed to report that it found DNA from multiple males in the accuser's body and underwear, according to a defense motion filed today. The lab, DNA Security of Burlington, found that the DNA did not match the three defendants, their lacrosse teammates or anyone else who submitted their DNA to police, including the accuser's boyfriend.
The new evidence emerged in thousands of documents handed over to the defense in October.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...
Did they order a DNA test for the baby?
FNC quotes Nifong as saying he believe Mangum became pregnant two weeks after the party?
Two dozen lacrosse players there today; both old and new lacrosse coaches there today.
She was so traumatized she had indiscriminate sex with anybody who she came in contact with?
While she was traumatized. WRAL report said child due in February.
How would Nifong know? Was he there? LOL
Joe Cheshire is on live!
How would Nifong KNOW or BELIEVE when Mangum became pregnant if he hasn;t talked w/her?
So she hasn't had it??
What bothers me is What's the "chain of custody" for the samples? It could get tricky. Anyone who handled it could have contaminated it. Meehan obviously used his DNA as a "contamination" check. DNA from ANYONE who handled it would have/SHOULD HAVE been submitted.
The DNA data was not ever given to the defense; they had to ask for it and even then they didn't get all the underlying data.
Cheshire is saying that Nifong and Meehan DECIDED not to include exculpatory evidence.
"Loaded"..........LOL........he said LOADED...
Vagina and surrounding area "LOADED."
An eeeeeeeeeeew moment, for sure.
Not according to the report linked in post 975.
Can Nifong be required to testify as to HIS part in the chain of custody of the evidence? (Didn't he deliver it to the lab?)
REALLY??? So she would likely have been menstruating at the time of the party. Nifong needs a SEX101 book.
Some will characterize that as a nasty remark about the FA.
Cheshire said called her by name. LOL
Some time after the party, she went to UNC hospital complaining of bleeding, so she wasn't pregnant then!
Cheshire said flat out that Nifong and Meehan talked about the results.
Meehan is DONE as a lab guy.
The suppression motion originally filed by Reade Seligmann's attorney laid out why the 4-4-06 photographic lineup was improper, but did not delve as much into how it taints any in-court identification by CGM. The new motion lays out the taint argument in devastating detail.
IMO, the key point is that Judge Smith has ordered a full-blown suppression hearing, which means that the Himan-Gottlieb combo will have to take the stand and face questioning regarding their conduct in this case.
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