Posted on 01/18/2007 4:46:46 PM PST by SmithL
Durham, N.C. -- The state chapter of the NAACP on Thursday called on those involved with the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case — from defense attorneys to state bar officials — to stop talking publicly while the state attorney general's office begins its review.
"We sincerely believe that the high level of public scrutiny and controversy involved in this matter is unwarranted and threatens to pervert the truth-finding process," said the Rev. William Barber, president of the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
No parties involved in the case have indicated whether they plan to stop speaking publicly.
Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, under heavy criticism for his handling of the case, asked the attorney general's office this month to take over the prosecution — a decision Barber said his organization applauded.
Until turning the case over to state prosecutors, Nifong led the investigation into allegations that a 28-year-old black student at North Carolina Central University, hired to perform as a stripper, was raped and beaten by three white men at a March 13 party thrown by Duke's highly ranked lacrosse team.
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Barber and his ilk ARE a perversion. They were fine with the publicity and the harrassment of these boys until their whore and their front man started taking body blows from the defense.
Nifong didn't perpetrate any fraud against the black people of Durham. He gave them exactly what they wanted - a frame-up and railroading of well-to-do white Duke boys. He appealed to their baser instincts and they went for it like kids in a candy store. They figured whitey was going to prison and the bank was open.....again.
I've used that same analogy myself.
To answer your question, "Where was the NAACP when these kids were being railroaded by the evil and corrupt DA?", the NAACP was right out front with the panthers, Mangum's money-grubbing, lying family of liars, and the pot-bangers, shooting their big, bully, loud mouths off with all the indignation and self-righteous racism they learn in the cradle.
Yes, it was the NAACP.
Right. They wanted everybody directly connected to the case to shut up so they could control the dialogue. They, though, would not have to have been silent under such an order because they're not directly involved in the case. Didn't work, lol!
I couldn't even finish reading #1.
The MSM fully understands the First Amendment, which was in play in the NAACP's gag order motion. But like all things left, they want it selectively, not fully, adhered to in order to advance their own agenda. And that agenda is very obvious in this case.
Breathtaking, insolent racism in its purest form.
The NAACP is joking right? They're so ethno-centric, who would believe them? All they care about is that those boys be put in jail.
I don't think it was Cash. He's a staff writer for that paper, but he's not on the editorial board, as far as I know.
I see the NAACP is united in finding out the "truth" just like the muzzies are united in showing what a "peaseful" religeon Islam is. Still looks like the pot calling the kettle something or other to me. I'm still waiting for the appologies to come from any of the liberals who keep hanging on to this non event hoping for "something" they can pin on "whitey". That will make everything OK.
You are RIGHT. They have Federal protection for their hate crimes.
I'm late to this thread, but:
BARF!
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satel...ts!colleges
SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Duke's lacrosse team will be under scrutiny as new season is about to begin
BY BOB LIPPER
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Friday, January 19, 2007
DURHAM, N.C. A large framed photograph is prominently displayed in the reception area of the building that houses the Duke men's lacrosse program, and it speaks to a happier and less complicated time. Players are gathered around a trophy that sits on the turf. Above them, a scoreboard proclaims the Blue Devils 14-13 winners over Virginia for the 2002 ACC championship.
There are grins all around.
It was before ominous clouds formed and a thunderclap struck.
One notorious incident and much scrutiny later, the most famous/infamous lacrosse team in the sport's history is about to get cranked up again. Practice begins next Saturday and the season Feb. 24 at home against Dartmouth.
The Blue Devils are planning to be good.
That's on the field and off.
Their 2006 campaign was scrubbed after eight games and their coach forced to resign in the aftermath of an exhaustively chronicled off-campus party that resulted in rape charges against three players. Those charges were dropped last month, but sex-offense and kidnapping indictments are still pending.
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http://washingtontimes.com/national/200701...10935-5609r.htm
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
Justice inquiry demanded on Duke rape charges
By Jerry Seper
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published January 19, 2007
Did a North Carolina prosecutor, members of his staff, Durham police and a DNA testing laboratory conspire to violate the civil rights of three Duke University lacrosse players in bringing high-profile rape charges against them?
That is what Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican and former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, wants to know, calling on Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales this week to assign Justice Department attorneys and the FBI to find out.
"I have been following with great interest and deepening concern the prosecution by Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong," Mr. King said in a terse letter to Mr. Gonzales. "I have done so not only because members of Collin Finerty's family are my constituents but because I have been accorded the privilege of representing all the citizens in this country and their interest in guaranteeing not only the appearance of justice but its actual implementation."
Mr. King said a review he conducted of documents and summaries of Mr. Nifong's investigation, along with discussions with other members of Congress, led to his call for the Justice Department probe.
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http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dl...ORIAL/701190305
Article published Jan 19, 2007
Get prosecutors off botched cases
At last the Duke lacrosse case is in the hands of presumably responsible prosecutors.
N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper's office will decide whether there's any reason to prosecute three lacrosse players for anything - other than being male chauvinist jerks, which may be a disgrace, but isn't even a misdemeanor.
Nifong had publicly, angrily and confidently accused them of sexually assaulting one of two ecdysiasts they'd engaged for an evening of cultural enrichment. He called the players "hooligans." He said part of their motivation was racial bigotry.
It quickly turned out that Nifong's apparently strong case was based on ever-changing testimony, improper police work and the withholding of inconvenient evidence from the boys' high-priced lawyers.
Embarrassed by Nifong's behavior - and it isn't easy to embarrass North Carolina prosecutors - the State Bar accused him of improper conduct.
Even then, nobody could take the case away from him. State law says only a DA can ask for a special prosecutor.
But with his fellow lawyers breathing down his neck and his law license in possible jeopardy, Nifong had a change of heart. He asked the AG to take the case.
http://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/hsletters/
Racism at Duke
I write to urge your newspaper to take a deep look at the racism that has come to the surface regarding the Duke lacrosse case, in particular threats being directed toward many of the African-American professors at the university. The lacrosse case has been a very divisive issue, but it seems it has also given the opportunity for hate to rise to the surface in the form of nasty racially driven threats. This is a very serious situation that has led many highly respected and extremely intelligent African-American professors feeling attacked and threatened. It has pushed us back to places from where we thought we had evolved long ago.
Larry Smith
Durham
January 19, 2007
Nifong is dangerous
As a retired New York state police officer, I am troubled by the Duke lacrosse case. It makes me wonder what made the police and prosecutor think they could get away with such conduct. My opinion is that they have probably gotten away with such conduct in previous matters.
It makes me wonder how many people have been wrongfully arrested and prosecuted in the past. How many people have been so poor that they had no resources to fight wrongful charges? This case has me and others fearful of even considering Duke for their children's education. Parents would be crazy to send their children into District Attorney Mike Nifong's jurisdiction.
J. Troy
Ronkonkoma, N.Y.
January 19, 2007
Brodhead, Nifong must go
To the previous letters calling for the resignations of District Attorney Mike Nifong and Duke University President Richard Brodhead, I would enthusiastically agree, and add a call for discipline against the 88 faculty members at Duke who, in their muddled political correctness, joined Nifong and his lynch mob in declaring the three young men guilty before even the facts of the case were known.
I too am an academician and a liberal, and I consider it unconscionable that a group with such influence in their setting would abandon the fundamental concepts of law. Also I read Editor Bob Ashley's comments on your editorial fairness in "Editor and Publisher," and I would ask the editorial staff to be held accountable as well. Not assessing Nifong's prosecutorial abuses with a critical eye (from the standpoint of accepted human decency, that is) is equivalent to commenting that the Abu Ghraib abuses "could be problematical, and result in some investigation activity."
Editorials have to take a stand, not just rehash the reporting!
Lawrence McKamy
Topeka, Ks.
January 19, 2007
Accuser, Nifong should apologize to LAX players
It is apparent to me that the accuser in the Duke LAX case is a compulsive liar. She has no idea what happened to her. She has changed her story so many times. All of us have lost count of how many times she has changed her story. I just cannot see how you can build a case on a victim who keeps changing her story.
In the meantime, she has ruined the lives of three young men. I hope she plans on publicly apologizing to these young men. They certainly deserve it. I urge District Attorney Mike Nifong to drop all the charges against these three young men. I am not a lawyer, but he has lost this case already. There is no jury in the country that would believe this woman.
Cindy Wrenn
Yorktown, Va.
January 19, 2007
The Herald-Sun
Impeach Nifong
Golly. What a concept. After dragging the Duke lacrosse players through the mud for months, District Attorney Mike Nifong finally decided to stop dragging his feet and interview the person who accused them. (At least I think she accused them -- she changed her story so many times that I'm not quite certain.)
How do we get this guy impeached?
Sue Roth
Durham
January 19, 2007
http://www.newsobserver.com/114/story/533943.html
N&O
Coman may be no prize
Barry Saunders
Chill, homes. Before y'all start the victory dance over the fact that Mike Nifong is no longer prosecuting the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case, it's important to look at who is prosecuting it.
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Pardon me, but isn't this the same Attorney General's Office that has overseen such judicial travesties as the Alan Gell case?
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"I'm very comfortable with Jim Coman," he [Cheshire] said. "I've tried many cases with him. He's tough and he's gruff, and I don't always agree with him, but he's always been professional. ... The Gell case and this one are different. In that one, he was confronted with the fact that [evidence of innocence] was withheld by the previous DA."
Eliciting sympathy for Nifong ranks in difficulty up there with trying to raise money -- at Fort Bragg -- for Osama bin Laden.
Sure, it appears likely that he has committed enough misdeeds in the lacrosse case -- possibly withholding evidence, making prejudicial statements -- to justify punishment.
You've got to feel, though, that he might have to pay for the sins of other misbehavin', underpunished prosecutors.
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The Bar has charged Nifong with misconduct, an unprecedented charge that is almost laughable when you consider how the bar typically handles misbehavin' prosecutors.
While you might be tempted to give Coman a pass for being a good soldier and arguing a dog of a case regarding Gell, he deserves no slack for what he did when Hoke and Graves were hauled before the State Bar's disciplinary committee: Coman argued that they'd done nothing wrong and that he would have withheld the evidence, too.
Knowing that Coman is loyal to his colleagues is admirable; knowing that he is loyal to the law would be even more so.
The longer this goes on the more damage to the image of Durham, and consequently, the entire system of justice in the US.
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