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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Lets see now....she was kidnapped for 10 seconds?
When was there time for her to be kidnapped?
At one point in time, maybe. I don't know the particulars of the kidnapping charge. But if she was smiling one minute and being dragged somewhere the next, that's kidnapping (though I assume the specifics vary from one jurisdiction to the next).
For example, if a woman willingly gets into a man's car, willingly follows him up the stairs to his apartment, willingly enters the apartment, and then later is dragged unwilling from the living room to the bedroom, that could be kidnapping (again based on specifics that differ by jurisdiction).
the kidnapping charges are the way for Nifong to save himself from being charged with malicious prosecution and being disbarred.
Quite possibly. Kidnapping would be easier to sell to a jury based just on a he-said, she-said case, and I think there's little doubt that Nifong is in full-on CYA mode. My only point is that there's no minimum distance for kidnapping (jurisdiction, etc.), so the charge isn't laughable on its face (though the evidence is looking a lot like it).
I was being sarcastic.
My bad.
When my mother was in the hospital years ago, I met Sam Liebowitz, the attorney who had defended the Scottsboro guys. He told me that he had been born in Romania and was nice to me.
Given the times and attitudes in Alabama, it's a small wonder tha Mr. Liebowitz wasn't the object of local lynch mob.
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