Live Thread - Reid Seligmann's testimony in Duke/Nifong Case [Mike Nifong Resigns on the stand]

Live Thread - Fox News | 06-15-07 | Brytani

[Brytani]

I didn't see anything posted on this live testimony. Who's watching it and what are your thoughts?

[mware]

Condom may be a reason dna evidence might not be found.

Sorry Nifong, but DNA evidence WAS found and you hid it from the defense and the court.

[Guilty by Association]

“I sure would like to know what 46 name was on that document. It might say quite a lot about the case.”

Excuse me, but have you been living under a rock for the past 15 months? The 46 names were those of every non-black player on Duke’s 2006 Men’s Lacrosse Team — straight from the roster — whether they were in attendance at the team party or not.

[TomGuy]

Nifongthink: There are many reasons why DNA might not be found, excluding that the rape never happened, of course.

Nifong is spinning that a condom might have been used. He fails to mention that DNA from numerous ‘other’ partners was found.

[Brytani]

That’s good to hear - however, Sharpton should still be in prison over that case.

Btw, I don’t remember that time very well, what ever happened to the office who was wrongly accused?

[Right_in_Virginia]

So, according to Nifong, these “hooligans” were guilty because he presumed they’d practiced safe sex?

[jiggyboy]

Oh brother he's just making crap up here, the questioner asks him why he was talking about the possibility of a condom even though he has the report from the nurse saying no condom was used, and he says, oh, that's because I was responding to a hypothetical question of how could it be possible that no DNA would be found.

[mware]

Now, now be nice. I was not hiding under a rock, it is just that I am not a legal eagle and all this stuff is confusing to me.

[SeaHawkFan]

I’m betting that Nifong walks away without a scratch.

If this was just a local story, this hearing would not be happening. Because of all the national attention, the Bar Association is going to sacrifice him for the "good of the cause."

[Brytani]

This guy won’t take resonsibility to taking a p&ss this morning!!!

[Brytani]

Unfortunately that’s exactly what I think is going to happen.

[TomGuy]

Nifong: ‘I got confused or got carried away with my comments.’

[Uh, you think?????]

[Sue Perkick]

“PLEASE COME FORWARD”

[JamesP81]

Unfortunately, our system of examining and cross examining rarely achieves "the whole truth".

No, but it works better than any other system devised to this point.

And then there's the wonderful "spouse exception" and of course "the 5th" which says "you don't have to tell us ANYTHING bad about you".

The spouse exception is a good thing. If I were married, I certainly wouldn't testify against my wife no matter what the law said about it. For that matter, I don't think I'd even testify against immediate family.

We have the 5th Amendment for a reason, as well. I trust that someone who is a member of FR doesn't need the merits of that Amendment and why it's a good thing explained in detail.

[mware]

Just admitted this will go to the second phase because of his comments to the pres.

The DNA will get him disbarred if there is justice.

Oh dear what an unfortunte name for that police office given this case.

[Brytani]

I’ve gone over the condom issue many MANY times on this forum. My education is in crime scene investigation, meaning I think I know a thing or two about DNA evidence and condom use.

Nifong is making a mockery over the use of condoms and collection of DNA material. If this case went down as Magnum claimed it did, it would be irrelevant as to the use of a condom or not. Sweat, hair, semen, blood, skin, saliva etc would have been found on her body. In fact, the onlything found was the semen of 3 (wasn’t that the final number) different men, much older then the estimated time of the claim attack.

Nifong should know better as a prosecutor and I’m sure he does, at least when an election isn’t in full swing.

[Right_in_Virginia]

OMG! I did not know that the “victim” was unable to identify anyone from the photos she was shown.

Oh, wait...she couldn’t identify them because it was a team photo. Ah, that clears it up ;-(

[mware]

Less than ideal. How about the fact that all the guys in the line up were from the Duke Lacross team.

[Bitsy]

Is a death threat considered a hate crime? If so why didn’t they arrest that radical SOB?

[mware]

He is willing to take the hit for the comments to the press. It is the dna that is going to cost him and his attorney knows that.

[EyeGuy]

“Is a death threat considered a hate crime? If so why didn’t they arrest that radical SOB?”

Well of course, because his ancestors were slaves of the white devil.