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My memory did not fail me:

http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/gaynor/060730

On May 24, 2006, Paul Bonner reported in The Herald-Sun, a Durham newspaper:

"DURHAM — A lawyer with the state NAACP said the civil rights organization intends to seek a gag order in the Duke lacrosse case, and a journalist who participated in a forum with him on Wednesday said media coverage of the alleged rape may deprive the alleged victim of her legal rights to a fair trial.

"Al McSurely, an attorney who chairs the Legal Redress Committee for the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he generally respects the defense attorneys in the case as colleagues. But they are violating the State Bar's rules of professional conduct that discourage comments outside court that are likely to prejudice a case, he said.

"The NAACP will try to intervene in the case to file a 'quiet zone/let's let justice work' motion. That is otherwise known as a gag order, he acknowledged, although he said he doesn't like that term."
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And never forget that the NAACP did get something like a gag order from Judge Titus. I still don't know what to call his unauthorized ruling -- other than a travesty. And Nifong didn't even have to ask for it.

This case has really turned the legal system upside down! We've seen winning motions via the news media by the NAACP -- even if the organization has nothing remotely close to standing. We've seen the application of the Professional Responsibility Rules to non-lawyers. Of course this was necessary so that the alleged victim wouldn't be deprived "of her legal rights to a fair trial."

And no one in the MSM challenges any of this. Have these people not heard of the Constitution? Maybe they should try reading it. Then maybe they'd understand how ignorant they sound.

On May 24, 2006, Paul Bonner reported in The Herald-Sun, a Durham newspaper:

Wasn't Nifong already finished shooting his mouth off by then?

Weren't the race-baiters already pretty much finished with the rabble rousing by then?

Isn't that when stuff started to come out about mishandling & misrepresenting the case, etc?

Just asking.

DURHAM — A lawyer with the state NAACP said the civil rights organization intends to seek a gag order in the Duke lacrosse case, and a journalist who participated in a forum with him on Wednesday said media coverage of the alleged rape may deprive the alleged victim of her legal rights to a fair trial. "Al McSurely, an attorney who chairs the Legal Redress Committee for the state National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said he generally respects the defense attorneys in the case as colleagues. But they are violating the State Bar's rules of professional conduct that discourage comments outside court that are likely to prejudice a case, he said.

I guess Mr. McSurley has never read the United States Constitution. The Fifth and Sixth Amendment guarantee the accused the right to a fair trial. It says nothing about guaranteeing a complainant anything.