Posted on 12/22/2006 10:31:19 AM PST by Jay777
Prosecutors dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges, a defense attorney said. Joseph Cheshire and attorneys for the other players have said for months the woman told several different versions of the alleged assault.
Cheshire said Friday that the accuser now says she does not know if she was penetrated, which he said led District Attorney Mike Nifong to dismiss the rape charges.
Nifong did not immediately return calls seeking comment.
The accuser, a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University, has said three men raped her in a bathroom at a March 13 team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper.
The players _ Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann _ all say they are innocent. Their attorneys have consistently said no sex occurred at the party and have cited a lack of DNA evidence in the case as proof of their clients' innocence.
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An excellent analogy--every law student reads the Scottsboro fiasco and the results
"Not with the right jury."
Or the wrong jury. You may be right, as the O.J. case demonstrated.
Stuff like this makes it harder for women who actually do get raped. I hope these guys from Duke sue her for false accusations.
I hope the guys sue the pants off the DA.
I'd like to actually know the legals behind this. Nobody "drops" anything in a court. The prosecutors may be saying they filed with the judge to have the charges dropped, but accepting it should still be at the discretion of the judge, who can decide it's all BS and throw it all out.
Exactly just comes with the territory. When this story came out a lot of people argued with me about the same thing you are saying.
They should absolutely refer to plea bargain and should try to turn publicity even more against the D.A.'s office.
I was the alternate on a jury in a case where the defendant was accused of robbing a liquor store at gunpoint. Because he had forced the guy at the cash register and a customer to go back into a storeroom, the charge of "kidnapping" was also filed against him. He was found guilty of the robbery and if I remember correctly of the kidnapping too.
Sue Nifong.
"Dis" something. I was thinking "emboweled"...
Wow, if I were any of these guys, I'd want to show the DA that if I were guilty, she'd know that she had been penetrated.
nifong should be in prison and penetrated by multiple bad boys.
Doesn't know if she was penetrated? She doesn't know if she was penetrated!! As a woman, I want to know how it is possible for her NOT to know (unless she was drugged out of her gourd).
Callouses decrease sensation.
He lied under pressure from the likes of jessie jacjas* and now he is all alone in abind and needs to fnd out how to get himself out of the mess he made without looking like a stupid lying as*hole.
Hopefully they will sue the trashy Little Miss 15-Minutes-Of-Fame for their attorney fees.
Before you clarified the charges I had thought that for 'Kidnapping' to have taken place that the victim must be a kid and that there was some degree of napping involved. :D
Nifong needs to be penetrated.
There...fixed it for you.
What I would consider sexual harrassment is limited to wild licentious comments, maybe a pat on the but or a dollar bill in a garter. Strippers are look, but don't touch material, IMO.
Strippers, just like any other woman, should be subjected to rape, sodomy, or foreign objects in naughty areas, which is what the guys here were accused of.
If the accuser had a consistent story and the DNA had backed up her story, I would be the first to encourage the DA to nail these boys to the wall and make sure they never see the light of day again.
She doesn't know if she was penetrated?! How is it possible not to know if you are penetrated?
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