Posted on 04/18/2007 11:03:11 AM PDT by abb
A few months ago, former Duke University lacrosse captain David Evans was facing rape charges. He was shunned and taunted for his alleged role in a crime that North Carolina’s attorney general has declared never happened.
Now Evans has gained the trust of Morgan Stanley Chief Executive John Mack, a Duke alum and trustee (class of ‘68) who went to bat for Evans after serious questions were raised about the case against he and his two former teammates.
Evans now has landed one of the most prestigious jobs on Wall Street, Deal Journal has learned. Morgan Stanley has hired Evans, who graduated in May 2006, as part of its analyst program. Landing a plum job — which is paying well into the six-figure range these days — has to be a satisfying end to a bitter sequence of events for Evans since the rape allegations surfaced in March 2006.
The 24-year-old Maryland native had a job lined up at J.P. Morgan Chase’s investment bank that was rescinded in the wake of his May 2006 indictment, with the bank telling him it probably wasn’t the best time to be starting a new job. After he was cleared recently, J.P. Morgan came back to Evans and made a new offer, which he declined.
J.P. Morgan declined to comment. We’re trying to get comment from Evans and will post again if and when that happens.
But don’t expect his life to resume the course it was on any time soon. When asked by Leslie Stahl in a recent “60 Minutes” show whether the dismissal of the charges means the ordeal is over for him, Evans said, “I don’t think it really will ever be over … when I die, they’ll say ‘one of the three Duke lacrosse rape suspects died today...
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Sadly, he's probably right.
LOL! GMTA. As soon as I read that the young man had the six figure job, I laughed and said the same thing to my hubby, SirKit, then I read him the story.
I couldn't figure out where you were getting that until I reread post #203. My fault for the misunderstanding.
The "card played" was meant to refer to the poster's introduction of her personal morality into the discussion, and not to a personal taunting of me.
When someone introduces a statement of their own morality into a discussion, while pointing out the flaws of a victim of an injustice, it is fair game, IMO.
You're equating Jesus' dealing with a repentant sinner to these dumb kids hiring a stripper so they can get their own personal jollies?
Hmmm....I sense tortured logic at work here.
I'm all for the kids getting off. But the ones involved with the stripper were not exactly your moral pillars of society. And as far as comparing their behavior to Jesus...whew....that's a real stretch.
This posted last night on Liestopper’s Board.
http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=3191
JimCooney Posted: Apr 18 2007, 07:43 PM
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There have been a number of questions posted on Liestoppers and over at TL that I thought I would try to address as this winds down (or perhaps rests in anticipation of the AG’s report).
First, there were two nonlacrosse players at the party - - this fact was known to both the police and Nifong before the April 4th Powerpoint identification procedure. The police knew the names of one of them and shortly thereafter learned the name of the second one. Neither were ever included in the Powerpoint identification or any photo array shown to Precious. Apparently this would have disrupted Mikey’s narrative. This single act alone shows that this was not about finding the “real rapists,” but was about pursuing a theme that Mikey had sold to the world media.
Second, a clarification. The picture of Precious on the steps of the porch where she is smiling shows her holding both her purse and Dave Evans’ shaving kit. The larger gray square that she is holding is the shaving kit, the smaller thing is the purse and you can see her cell phone in it. This is consistent with the fact that a call was made to her escort service at about 12:26am, shortly around the time that she told Kim Roberts that “there was more money to be made.”
Third, much has been made of the “missing” money. Precious left some of her money at the house. Dave Evans told a number of players to leave it alone and made sure that no one took it; when the police came they found the money in a stack of 20s. It had been there for two days; obviously no one had taken Precious’ money - - just the opposite, she had left some of it behind because she was stoned and they had kept it out and left it alone.
Next, there has been some question about the DNA collection since Precious plainly handled Dave Evans’ shaving kit, but none of his DNA was found on her. It is important to remember that the DNA swabs were taken from her mouth (several men’s DNA in there), vagina (same), rectum (same), pubic area (same). Her hands were not swabbed (nor would that be typical).
One thing that is also apparent from the photos is that Precious is wearing two pairs of undergarments - - a red outer undergarment and then a whitish almost macrame underwear. It was this underwear that was tested (and the stains revealed multiple men). This is, of course, another fact that Mikey and Linwood overlooked - - why would gang rapists who were beating Precious take the time to dress her in not one, but two, pairs of underwear. Go figure.
Joe Neff has now revealed the affidavits from the folks at the Platinum Club about Precious’ work habits. We were provided with “sign-in” logs from the “Champagne Room” of the Platinum Club. A “dancer” and her customer are required to sign the sheet pledging that they will not engage in any sex or touching in the room. (I swear that I am not making this up). We have sheets from the latter part of March (and just 2 or 3 days after the “attack”) showing that someone named “Precious” signed in. This is consistent with what Yolanda Hayes said about Precious in her affidavits (and appears to corroborate the approximate time of the videotape showing her dancing until Yolanda throws her off the stage).
Significantly, we were able to trace Precious’ footsteps the weekend before the party. Recall that she told Durham PD that after dancing at the Platinum Club on Friday night, she did her nails, went to a movie, and did her nails some more. Hardly. We found that after dancing at the Platinum Club she had at least 4 private hotel room engagements with various escort customers. She made approximately 20 to 25 calls to at least 8 escort services that weekend for jobs. We were able to track down at least one of those customers. We were comfortable with what his testimony would have been.
In addition, during the course of the SP’s investigation, they uncovered additional information that validated our timeline and showed that Precious did not even arrive at the party until about 1135p (which was corroborated by her cell phone records). This was a receipt for her “driver” at a gas station close to the party site where he went after dropping her off - - it is time stamped at 1143pm. Mikey and the DPD never bothered to follow up on this information, the SPs did.
Finally, also unexamined by Mikey and Linwood was a digital camera seized by the police on March 16th. There was one picture of Precious and Nikki in that camera - - the digital data recorded a time that was approximately 13 hours off. We were able to verify that by enlarging one of the photos in which a player’s watch was clearly visible. Using the correct time on this camera, this picture was taken of Nikki and Precious dancing at 1202am - - and it was nearly identical to the picture that has been released to the media bearing a time stamp of 1203am. In short, two different pictures, by two different people, of almost the exact same scene - - one of which was in the possession of the DPD since 3/16 - - that proved beyond any dispute that Nikki and Precious were dancing at 1202a. Yet, they still tried to change the timeline on 12/21.
You can’t make this stuff up (as Joe, Brad and I said to each other more than once).
Sounds like Nifong learned well from our MSM.
Create a story, create evidence, swear to it.
Like Jim Cooney, we, the hooligans at FR shared your "you can't make this stuff up" mind, AS it was going down and through what bits of data we were able to dig up and learn.
The part which was new to me in Jim's post, abb -- was "precious" having to sign in the log at the Champagne Room - perhaps, I hadn't been paying attention.
The two garments -- we went nuts, initially, too -- observing the photos and seeing her in different photos.
Will we ever find her missing shoe? (Definitely NOT a Cinderella story....) But I suppose it can be reckoned that Mikey was her kind of Charming Prince....
I call that racism.
The trapped spirits had followed a cult leader, predicting the end of the world, to a cave in a desert to "wait out the end times". When the time and day came and nothing happened, the people (then alive) begged Kane (their leader) to let them flee the cave. But he wouldn't let them. And they died.
Flash forward, the little girl is asked why the spirits remain and keep troubling her and she (and Tangina, the psychic) effectively reply -- the lost spirits can see the light of the little girl's innocence through the darkness, and so they keep following her: They have nowhere else to go.
Ipso, Victoria Peterson. She, obviously, can only see the light of the Duke Three's innocence, and has only that to follow in her pursuit of whatever it is she thinks will give her "relief".
Current: Will we ever find her missing shoe? (Definitely NOT a Cinderella story....) But I suppose it can be reckoned that Mikey was her kind of Charming Prince....
Change to: Will we ever find her missing shoe? (Definitely NOT a Cinderella story....) But I suppose it can be reckoned that Mikey was her kind of PC. ("Prince Charming")
This just in over on Liestoppers.
JimCooney Posted: Apr 19 2007, 09:25 AM
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One addition to my post in light of comments raised here and elsewhere concerning the SANE examination. While Nurse Levicy apparently claimed on January 10 to Nifong, et al, that Precious could not be sure if a condom was used, her documentation said the opposite. As set forth in the Motion to Suppress served on December 14, there were three different places in her documentation where she explicitly recorded that Precious said that condoms were not used. Her statement on January 10 was just simply wrong and, I believe, resulted from her misreading her notes; Precious did say that she was not sure if one or more of the “attackers” ejaculated and that box “not sure” is checked just below the condom box (in which “no” was checked). IMO the testimony would have been clear that Precious said, and Levicy recorded, in 3 different places that condoms were not used.
The whole question of being “unsure” has absolutely nothing to do with DNA. The DNA found in and on Precious came from both sperm cells and skin (epitheleal) cells. Even if an “attacker” was wearing a condom, he would still leave skin cells. What Mikey never understood (and Linwood as well) was that you do not need to ejaculate to leave DNA - - this is proven by the fact that Dr. Meehan’s DNA was found in one item of the rape kit. No one is accusing Meehan of ejaculating in the rape kit; however, his DNA got in the rape kit from a flake of skin, or dandruff.
The whole, sole and only reason Levicy is being interviewed on January 10 was not for purposes of continuing the case (by this time, according to his account, Mikey had decided he needed to get out). Rather, the only reason that she is being interviewed is that Mikey is attempting to put together a defense for his “condom” comments in the Bar’s complaint, and wants to bolster it with Levicy. She obliges without apparently reviewing her own documents carefully. When she does, and when she realizes that the DNA came from epitheleal as well as sperm fractions, she calls and includes “it did not happen” as a valid explanation.
Finally, one VERY important point in all of this is that all of this evidence that was subjected to DNA testing was collected by women. Meehan was running Y-STR tests, which will pick up male DNA. Thus, there was ZERO chance of contamination during the collection process since all of the people who collected the evidence were women.
http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/565723.html
Published: Apr 19, 2007 09:27 AM
Modified: Apr 19, 2007 09:57 AM
Former officers face assault case
From Staff Reports
RALEIGH - Two former Durham police officers return to court today to face charges that they beat up a cook at a Raleigh sports bar and called him a racist name.
Gary P. Lee and Scott C. Tanner are scheduled to appear before Wake District Court Judge Debra Sasser, who threw out the case Oct. 30 only to have a higher level judge reinstate it.
Sasser dismissed the case on grounds that a prosecutor had neglected to specify that the incident occurred in Wake County and therefore had failed to show that Wake had jurisdiction. Superior Court Judge Ronald Stephens decided that Sasser had made a mistake and should not have ended the case.
The Durham Police Department fired Lee and Tanner after an internal investigation. Police Chief Steve Chalmers said at the time that the two had engaged in “a public brawl with a perfect stranger.”
The two are accused of assaulting Rene Dennis Thomas on July 20 at Blinco’s on Glenwood Avenue in Raleigh. Thomas is black; both Lee and Tanner are white.
Lee and Tanner were among a group of officers at Blinco’s to send off a fellow Durham officer who was resigning.
In October, Sasser heard evidence against the two former officers, then agreed to toss the case at the request of their defense lawyers. Wake District Attorney Colon Willoughby appealed to Stephens, who said that the issue of jurisdiction should have been brought up before trial.
I prefer to look at this case and these events in light of that statement. If ever an incident occurred which illustrated the maxim: "The Lord works in mysterious ways," this is definitely such an incident.
Let us begin with: If the strippers hadn't been hired, they wouldn't have been arrested.
That is true, but because of it, they learned a lesson that I wouldn't wish on anyone. But let's go a bit further.
If the strippers hadn't been hired, they wouldn't have been arrested.
Ah yes, but - if they hadn't been arrested, and if they didn't have the financial strength to vigorously fight the charges, we wouldn't have seen what a rqir Brodhead was. We wouldn't have learned how hateful the gang of 88 was. We wouldn't have seen the "lynch mob" mentality which was tolerated at this institute of "higher learning." We wouldn't have read and heard the countless, and unconscionable, reports slanted to the guilt of the players, rather than a presumption of innocence those same entities would have assumed had the races been switched. Worst of all, IMO, Nifong would still be railroading people with no oversight. And his investigator and the ass-clown members of Durham PD would still not have come under such intense scrutiny.
Many many people are going to get what's coming to them because a frat hired a low class stripper.
Yes my friends, the Lord does work in mysterious ways. And you can't tell me he doesn't have a sense of humor!
LMAO - for those wondering what a “rqir” is - it is “twit.” (letters on the wrong keys)
I am so sick of people complaining about the strippers. It was a large, college party, for pete's sake. Not every person there had an interest in the stripper. They were there for the beer and to hang out with their friends. Two of the wrongly accused men left shortly after the stripper arrived - there's even a picture of Seligman looking grossed out by her.
There is no evidence these were lecherous men who disrespect women in general. Seligman left the party and called his girlfriend. Finnerty left the party and called his sister. I'll bet both of them mentioned the skanky stripper to the women with whom they were speaking and I'll bet it was done in the contest of, "Yuck, I just wanted to get out of there."
LOL! I thought it was an acronym. I was trying to decipher it.
Excellent points, btw.
Thank you.
Congratulations Enterprise.
Rqir now is in the category with hugh and series.
Unfortunately your name is now attached to rqir, whereas no one remembers series’ and hugh’s papa.
Gotta go take a shower!
LOL - ok, I'll put it in as a keyword for future reference as to its origin.
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