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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 11, 2007 3:33:10 GMT -5
By LARA SETRAKIAN ABC News Law & Justice Unit April 10, 2007 — The office of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper will announce that he is dismissing all charges against three Duke Lacrosse players, ABC News has learned from sources close to the case. The three players, Reade Seligmann, David Evans and Collin Finnerty, were facing charges of first degree kidnapping and first degree forcible sexual offense. The charges stem from an off-campus party on the night of March 13, 2006. In the hours after the party, one of two dancers hired to perform for the players claimed she had been violently raped in a bathroom by members of the lacrosse team. The players had also been indicted for first degree rape, but that charge was dismissed on Dec. 22, 2006. Special prosecutors from the Attorney General's office took over the case after Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong recused himself in January, citing charges of unethical conduct filed against him by the North Carolina Bar. Since then, Jim Coman and Mary Winstead have examined the case from scratch, interviewing key witnesses and working through reams of evidence.
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Post by Felix on Apr 11, 2007 8:36:19 GMT -5
Regarding the overdue dropping of the completely buggered case against the Duke Lacrosse players, I see this comment: Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong recused himself in January, citing charges of unethical conduct filed against him by the North Carolina Bar. I haven't been following this case since Nifong retreated, but does anybody know if the charges against Nifong himself are still in the pipleline? I hope so. Either that or maybe they have provisions for a recall election in NC. What a twisted scumbag. Edited for the answer: Ah. Google reveals all. I should have looked first: Hearing set for Nifong. DURHAM -- April 13 was set Tuesday as the date for District Attorney Mike Nifong to formally seek dismissal of N.C. State Bar charges that he mishandled the Duke lacrosse sex-offense case.
A hearing on Nifong's dismissal request will begin at 4 p.m. that day in the State Bar Building in Raleigh.
Nifong and his lawyer, David Freedman of Winston-Salem, are seeking to squelch charges that the district attorney made unethical media statements about the lacrosse case in its infancy last year, and also that he withheld DNA evidence favorable to three defendants and then lied about it.
Among the statements at issue, Nifong characterized some Duke lacrosse players as "hooligans" and suggested their alleged sexual assault against an exotic dancer in mid-March 2006 was racially motivated.
This whole "investigation" was a disservice to both the players and to genuine victims of rape everywhere. Disgusting hack politician. Feh.
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 11, 2007 18:59:33 GMT -5
Ditto. Don't expect much from the Bar Association. He may get a slap on the wrist, along with a forced insincere public apology. I doubt his license is anywhere near "In jeopardy". Hopefully his political career is over and he can go handle divorces and wills.
The real victims here are true rape victims who will have overcome this stigma, on top of the rape for years to come.
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Post by Kordax on Apr 11, 2007 20:41:01 GMT -5
dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/bcreport.htmlBowen-Chambers Report, May 8, 2006 Julius Chambers, a veteran civil rights attorney and former chancellor of North Carolina Central University, and William G. Bowen, president of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and former president of Princeton University, led the committee, which also included Danielle Carr Ramdath, who received her Ph.D. in mathematics from Duke and now serves as a member of the Mellon Foundation staff.These people & their smarmy little committee helped whip up anti-White, anti-lacrosse hysteria throughout the Duke Campus & the Durham community. The names & positions of people like this should be prominently outed & held up to ridicule & contempt for as long as possible -- at least 395 days worth. Echoing findings from the previous two committees, the new report found “long-standing problems of campus discipline” and said “the lacrosse team was seen by at least some part of the Duke/Durham community as a manifestation of a white, elitist, arrogant sub-culture that was both indulged and self-indulgent.” It said “the athletics department, and certainly those responsible for the lacrosse team, did not oversee properly the conduct of members of the team or succeed in instilling proper values,” adding that “clearer and firmer actions in earlier days might well have reduced the likelihood that the party of March 13-14 would have unfolded as it did.”Duke University's willing alliance with the lowest of the low race hustling pimps masquerading in academic costumes is sickening -- an undergrad degree at Duke costs over $40K a year & much of their wherewithal depends on annual fundraising campaigns designed to take in $500 million + a year. We can only hope that Dukes' willing alliance with race hustlers will result in fewer quality students choosing Duke & the alumni refusing to donate one single penny more to their school until this administration is forced out at the point of cleansing high powered fire hoses. However, it also said “the core group advising the President consisted largely of white men” and “the senior leadership of Duke was handicapped by its own limited diversity.” Noting that the senior leadership was largely “inherited from a prior administration that was headed by an extremely able and outgoing white woman,” the committee encouraged Brodhead “to find ways to bring a wider range of talented individuals to his council table.”
In his statement, Brodhead responded that he is “committed to bringing a range of perspectives to bear on discussions by the senior leadership.” Later this month, Pamela Bernard will become Duke’s vice president and university counsel. Her appointment, announced Jan. 31, was Brodhead’s second vice presidential selection, following his decision a year earlier to name Benjamin D. Reese Jr. as vice president for institutional equity. Reese had been serving in the position on an interim basis.See what an institutional obsession with diversity can do? It ceded legitimacy to race-1st-think where pointing out that "White men" advising Duke's president were defacto suspect because they were white. Does this possibly help anyone else begin to understand why Duke dropped their lacrosse program, fired the coach, turned their backs on these boys & automatically assumed these boys were automatically guilty due to their "white skin privilege" -- it's WHAT HAPPENS WHEN DIVERSITY MANAGERS HAVE POWER.
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Post by Kordax on Apr 12, 2007 0:17:41 GMT -5
Asked if she had lied about the attack, Cooper said that investigators think that she "may actually believe" the many different stories she has told. As for charging Mangum in connection with her claims, Cooper said it was "not in the best interest of justice" to file charges against her.www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0411071duke1.htmlFiling false accusations of rape just got a lot easier for one & all from now on -- all a scumbag accuser has to do is to convince gullible White men that "belief" existed somehow, some way, somewhere .... Given the facts of this one case, isn't it long past time to formally abandon all rape shield laws once & for all?
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Post by tcrashfx on Apr 12, 2007 3:44:53 GMT -5
REV. JESSE JACKSON SR.: Duke: Horror and Truth
by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. April 24, 2006 “Divorced Mother Of Two, Working Way Through College, Allegedly Raped, Abused By Gang.” Had the headline read that way, the fury would have been great. The facts that the police didn’t arrest anyone, that the gang was not talking, that it took two days for the police to search the scene of the crime would have added to the anger. But that’s not how it was reported. Rather, it was reported that a black stripper was accusing members of the Duke lacrosse team of rape after she and another woman were hired to dance for them at a party. That method of reportage put race and class in the center of the story. Predictably, the right-wing media machine has kicked in, prompting mean-spirited attacks upon the accuser’s character. Rush Limbaugh called the two women strippers “hoes,” and later apologized saying “I regret you heard me say that.” And Michael Savage referred to the alleged victim as a "Durham dirt-bag" and "dirty, verminous black stripper". And, it is in this tense atmosphere that the accuser flees from home to home, fearing for her safety. The players got lawyers immediately, who advised them to talk to no one. Duke University boosters hired big-time legal gunslinger Bob Bennett – who counts the Catholic Church as well as then-president Bill Clinton among his clients – to step in as spokesman for the newly-formed “Committee for Fairness to Duke Families”.
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Post by Felix on Apr 12, 2007 7:14:09 GMT -5
It would be interesting to see if Jesse Jackson, Sr. has revised those opinions of almost a year ago.
In fact, I think it would be interesting to check for comments from anybody prominent in the black leadership about their current views, following the dropping of all charges by the state att'y general.
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Post by augie47 on Apr 12, 2007 7:23:51 GMT -5
It would be interesting to see if Jesse Jackson, Sr. has revised those opinions of almost a year ago. In fact, I think it would be interesting to check for comments from anybody prominent in the black leadership about their current views, following the dropping of all charges by the state att'y general. looking closely ! hummmmmm! no sign of hell freezing over yet! guess not!!!
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Post by LimitedRecourse on Apr 12, 2007 20:41:22 GMT -5
In my opinion, Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton can not afford to admit that they were wrong in any instance, no matter how obvious. Their credibility is too low to take another hit. I'm always amazed at how many people (of all ethnicities) still look to these guys as some kind of authority in righteousness. P.T. Barnum was SOOOO right.
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Post by spinsandbarks on Apr 13, 2007 4:51:14 GMT -5
30 guys with parents, lawyers, friends, school officials, deep, deep pockets vs. you with the your little fake nails, one red shoe and enough for either the lights or the water.
I would hope Al would take a collect call.
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Post by Kordax on Apr 13, 2007 8:38:19 GMT -5
30 guys with parents, lawyers, friends, school officials, deep, deep pockets vs. you with the your little fake nails, one red shoe and enough for either the lights or the water.
This must be a joke, right?
The State of North Carolina, the City of Durham, Duke University, most Duke faculty members, initially every major & minor media outlet in the nation -- everyone was pillorying the falsely accused players, the falsely accused lacrosse program, the falsely accused "white skin privilege" thing -- these guys were very, VERY close to going to jail & becoming falsely accused pariahs forever -- fake nails & red shoes my @ss!
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Post by halk3 on Apr 13, 2007 9:07:01 GMT -5
Has there ever been any mention of the lacrosse coack that was fired/resigned when the season was cancelled?
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Post by spinsandbarks on Apr 13, 2007 13:22:05 GMT -5
Initial reports and behavior were not so kind to the accuser, so I was pointing out why someone with such few resources would find Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton credible.
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