Posted on 12/22/2006 9:15:57 AM PST by abb
Just heard from Julia Lewis on TV.
Nifong filing to dismiss rape charges. Will keep SA and kidnap charges.
All this talk about kidnapping, and I can't get 'The Ransom of Red Chief' out of my head.
I think your position is a little too negative. THere will be scientific evidence. Sexual assault is a touching, so we are back to no DNA; the photographs show no touching (except between Kim and the FA); the FA was a paid stripper, so being naked at one point or another was expected and hardly unwelcome. Kidnapping charges are addressed by the photographs showing her trying to get back into the house and the players helping her to the car.
Kim's testimony will also kill these charges. Kim has stated that Precious locked herself in the bathroom-- no one was ever in there with her except Kim; Kim also states that Precious wanted to go ack in to make more money, so there s hte final nail in those charges.
And let's not forget that there is now a legal filing essentially saying that Precious cannot remember being raped (despite Nifong's repeated assurances to the court.) SHe is now completely useless as a witness.
The criminal case is over; the only issue is how painful it will be for Nifong. If I were to speculate, the charges will be dropped before February (which will still be required because the only evidence Nifong has is Precious' ID of these three). No way Nifong puts Precious on the stand.
The defense attorneys will DESTROY her on the stand. Which is good.
Then those families should counter-sue, make sure her slut behind is put in jail and her children forever removed from her care.
I agree. Drop the big one, the rape charge first, then drop the lesser ones when people are preoccupied.
That pretty much sums it up...
Presumably she was going back for her shoes.
I always do that after I've been kidnapped, don't you? ROFL
Re: #454: An excellent idea - I agree with JLS and LB.
Yep, I did that the last 5 times I was kidnapped.
Excellent post!
I don't think Nifing can get the "rape" part of her testimony stricken. She gave a statement to the police that she was "raped vaginally, anally and orally by three men".
Her entire statement was used as the ENTIRE pretext for charging them with rape. The prosecutor can not take selected paragraphs, sentences or words to prosecute the players without the players getting her entire statement.
He didn't use DNA evidence to get them indicted.
Now, she is recanting her statement to the police. The defense lawyers will turn her inside out and get her so confused that she will admit that she is Elvis.
The defense lawyer can walk into court and say "Show me ANY evidence at all that ANY crime has been committed. You can't because there is NONE. The ENTIRE case rests on her testimony, and her testimony alone."
Every bit of evidence so far made public is exculpatory for the 3 defendants. Even her sworn statements to the police are contradicted by physical evidence AND ARE CONTRADICTORY.
Peach--I think she had one of her shoes...maybe she was looking for her fingernails. Especially the one with the DNA on it.
If anyone wants a laugh, tune to CTV and watch Ashleigh Banfield trying to spin this pile of bullshit...
Broadhead & the 88 are the ones who brought shame on the university.
Well, it would depend on the shoes.....
There is no way it will catch Freepers preoccupied.
chi chi chi chia
ni ni ni nifong
Her shoes?? The white hump-me pumps?
Hi, sissyjane.
I could destroy her on the stand. Absolutely destroy her. And I'm not even an attorney. Those defense attorneys will make her sorry she ever drew a breath if this case proceeds at all. Which, at this point, I seriously doubt.
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