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.
Apparently you are still suffering whatever reputation you no doubt deservedly earned at 21 and hope that seeing others suffer the same will somehow make you feel better.
Now, get back to your therapeutic porn sites and quit bugging us.
Actually, I use it, even though I totally disagree with geezer.
It's not geezer's words that are his problem. It's his thoughts.
I think they did request a white and an hispanic stripper? Were they also trying to hire an illegal alien stripper?
:-)
If Duke doesn't release their transcripts, for academic purposes, their Duke coursework doesn't exist and they cannot use it as a basis for transferring and enrolling as a full time student elsewhere.
Well, they can enroll anywhere else full-time, and I'm not sure about whether Duke would be able to withhold the transfer of their transcripts to a new school. There would be no legal basis for them to withhold them. So, I don't believe you are right about this. You may be, but I don't think so.
Please do not encourage him to come to CTV. It is bad enough with the latest versions of Granny and Chicky Girl.
Was it a decent movie?
It is not that Duke would not release their transcripts but rather their transcripts would reflect that they are suspended. Most other schools as a matter of course do not accept students under suspension by another school.
I thought it was ok. It was a bit confusing and complicated. It had a bit too much Skull and Bones Society stuff in it for me.
It gave a decent sketch of the history of the OSS/CIA from the founding of the OSS through the openning of the CIA Langley facility. It showed a huge toll on family from working for CIA and it showed many of the pressures they are under.
The whole thing about hiring the strippers in the first place has been the fall-back position of the lefties who have insulted and disparaged these boys over and over again, publicly, each time another shoe proving their innocence has dropped.
It's all you got left, lol, and it's nothing.
That is a hilarious pic. Thanks for posting it.
He won't be able to practice law which, even in NC, is likely a prerequisite to hold the job.
If either of these kids go back, they should have their heads examined. They are going to have big fat targets painted on their backs, and will be set up by every radical feminist and/or race hustler on campus.
A university far, far away, under an assumed name, is the way to go, here. It may not be justice, but it is practical.
Is Granny still there? What happened to regina lambert? I looked in for the first time in months a couple of nights ago and I see they have a Duke board again (after limiting the topic to a single thread with Chick Girl in charge). Nothing like trying to reboard the train long after it's left the station.
This hasn't exactly been the finest hour of the CTV boards.
It can be shown in trial against Nifong (and a separate one against the accuser, if need be) without putting the boys in jeopardy. It's sort of analogous to taking the WoT to the ME, such as Iraq, instead of letting the enemy come to our soil. :)
Nifong has already admitted that the only evidence he has is the accuser's statements, which are dissolving, yet the risk of a racist jury of black Durhamites deciding they want to convict no matter how obvious their innocence is is great. If it was your son, would you take that risk, especially when it has become obvious anyway to every sentient person that he is innocent? You'd risk him being sentenced to forty years in prison by a bunch of racists? No defense attorney worth a dime would allow that if avoidable.
The most essential flaw in this case has been NC criminal procedure. There is no mechanism for a probable cause hearing. If there was, it would have been apparent long ago that Nifong did not have anything remotely approaching the needed elements to even show that a crime occurred, let alone that these boys committed it. In a probable cause hearing, Nifong would have had to set forth what he claims happened, who did what, when, where and how. The lack of evidence, multiple stories and alibis would have come in and blown him out of the water, and probable cause is a lesser burden than beyond a reasonable doubt. In a normal state, Nifong would first have to show that a crime occurred, but that's not the case in NC because of the way the law is (or isn't) structured, and that includes their hokey indicting grand jury system.
Note that juries don't return innocent verdicts, only go as far as not guilty. Big difference. The guys still have an arrest record.
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