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Duke To Reinstate Seligmann, Finnerty (DukeLax)
WTVD ^ | January 3, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 01/03/2007 10:57:18 AM PST by abb

(01/03/07 -- DURHAM) - Duke lacrosse defendants Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are both expected to be reinstated today as Duke students in good standing, two sources close to the case told ABC News. Also on abc11tv.com: Send us news tips | Desktop Alert | ABC11 AccuWeather | Pinpoint Traffic Defendant David Evans was allowed to graduate last spring, but underclassmen Seligmann and Finnerty were suspended from the University pending a resolution of the assault charges.

December 22, 2006, prosecutors dropped rape charges against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges.

According to court papers filed by District Attorney Mike Nifong, the accuser says she now does not know if she was penetrated during the alleged attack.

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 Duke lacrosse team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper.

The indicted players - Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - all say they are innocent, and their attorneys have consistently said no sex occurred at the party.

Evans graduated from Duke in May, the day before he was indicted. Sophomores Finnerty and Seligmann were suspended following their April 2006 indictments.

The Duke lacrosse team was also suspended from play, but was reinstated in June on a provisionary basis.

A press conference from defense attorneys is expected this afternoon.

Stay with abc11tv.com and ABC11 Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing story.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; durham; nifong
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To: newgeezer
whoremonger -> she was not hired for that purpose nor did she perform in that capacity.
141 posted on 01/03/2007 12:59:21 PM PST by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: newgeezer
When I got burned because I played with fire, I took my lumps.

How did you play with fire and what lumps did you take?

142 posted on 01/03/2007 12:59:26 PM PST by Ken H
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To: newgeezer

Thanks for proving my point.

You're just here to act superior to everybody else.

Sanctimoniousness isn't very attractive.


143 posted on 01/03/2007 12:59:32 PM PST by Howlin
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To: Ken H

Sounds like a case of I got hurt and I want everybody else to hurt, too.


144 posted on 01/03/2007 1:00:00 PM PST by Howlin
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To: newgeezer
I tend to agree with you, but I remain on the side of these fellows wrongly accused.

I'm interested in seeing their accusers and detractors suffer quite a bit before I'm satisfied.

145 posted on 01/03/2007 1:00:28 PM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: Locomotive Breath

Well, that is the rub.


146 posted on 01/03/2007 1:00:45 PM PST by Howlin
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To: newgeezer

Don't be sad for me. I'm delighted when there is injustice in the world to see it handled appropriately, like a lawsuit. This was the most unjust case I've ever heard of in my lifetime.

Maybe you think it's okay for an out-of-control, lying, and manipulative prosecutor to ruin the college careers of three very nice young men, to ruin their reputations, and to force their families into spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defend against these bogus charges. Most people I know don't think it's okay at all and that Nifong needs to be brought to his knees before he does the same thing to my kid or yours.


147 posted on 01/03/2007 1:01:13 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: abb

Were I them I wouldn't return to Duke after how the school treated them and after how little support they got from it.


148 posted on 01/03/2007 1:01:43 PM PST by SmoothTalker
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To: truth_seeker
Does the jurisdiction have "recall" elections, by petitions?

If any election is deserving of a recall, this one is!

149 posted on 01/03/2007 1:01:56 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: newgeezer

"When I got burned because I played with fire, I took my lumps."

How about if you got decapitated because you played with fire?


150 posted on 01/03/2007 1:03:29 PM PST by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: SuziQ

No gots.


151 posted on 01/03/2007 1:03:56 PM PST by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: newgeezer
So, in the end, what damage has been done to the young men's reputations? They're not rapists. Maybe their reputation will be that of "whoremonger" for a few years. Big whoop.

You can't possibly be this ignorant. They were kicked out of college. Their families were forced to spend untold hundreds of thousands of dollars for attorneys. Their lacrosse team was disbanded. The senior lacrosse players at Duke had their pre-graduation job offers revoked.

You know what...if you honestly think all of that is okay, I hope you are unjustly charged and bankrupted by the legal fees.

152 posted on 01/03/2007 1:04:08 PM PST by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they captured or killed.)
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To: Locomotive Breath
You're insisting that they suffer the consequences for their non actions.

I'll try to make this clearer for you.

The action was hiring a stripper.

Sure, maybe 99 times out of 100, it's a safe thing to do, with no consequences at all.

But, there's always the chance that cavorting with a woman of questionable moral character will burn you. That's what happened here. The consequence is damage to their reputations. (Note to all: The subject of this thread-within-the-thread is "who will restore these young men's reputations?")

153 posted on 01/03/2007 1:04:12 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: newgeezer

I think even you will agree that these boys got more than "lumps" for their mistake.


154 posted on 01/03/2007 1:04:21 PM PST by Carolinamom (Thank God that Mary and Joseph were not pro-choicers.)
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To: abb
These two guys should tell Duke "sure we'll come back but you'll be paying full tuition otherwise were suing".
155 posted on 01/03/2007 1:04:47 PM PST by puppypusher (The world is going to the dogs.)
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To: abb

I'd tell them to screw off. Go to UNC.


156 posted on 01/03/2007 1:05:11 PM PST by 1L
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To: Carolinamom
I think even you will agree that these boys got more than "lumps" for their mistake.

Yes, sometimes the lumps end up being bigger than we ever imagined.

Oh, well. That's the chance we take.

157 posted on 01/03/2007 1:06:03 PM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: newgeezer

Man, guess you were just perfect in college. They are 21 and wanted to have some dancers. Get a grip man....Don't be so sanctimonius (not sure spelled right)


158 posted on 01/03/2007 1:06:17 PM PST by GoMonster (GO)
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To: newgeezer

The appropriate consequence for hiring a stripper and getting caught at it is being kicked out of the Bible study. You seem to lack all sense of proportion. That's OK. Your turn around the wheel will come.


159 posted on 01/03/2007 1:06:38 PM PST by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: newgeezer
But, if not for the fact that these nice young gentlemen hired a stripper (dog) to bump and grind for their lovely little party, NONE of the damage (fleas) would have occurred.

Thank you Mother Teresa.

You sound just a bit santimonious my friend.

Sounds like you never went to college. That is SOP for most frat parties. Get a life.

160 posted on 01/03/2007 1:08:43 PM PST by mc5cents (Show me just what Mohammd brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman)
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