Associated Press – Oct 27, 2006:
The district attorney prosecuting three Duke lacrosse players accused of raping a woman at a team party said during a court hearing Friday that he still hasn’t interviewed the accuser about the facts of the case.
“I’ve had conversations with (the accuser) about how she’s doing. I’ve had conversations with (the accuser) about her seeing her kids,” Mike Nifong said. “I haven’t talked with her about the facts of that night. … We’re not at that stage yet.
Actually, it gets worse, no one from the prosecutor’s office has interviewed the victim…
Nifong said none of his assistants have discussed the case with the woman either and only have spoken with her to monitor her well-being. They have left the investigation of the case to police, he said.
Update: Lauren points out that a video has been found showing the alleged victim dancing at a club at the same time she was allegedly being raped.
News and Observer – Oct 28, 2006:
A woman identified as the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case performed an athletic pole dance at a Hillsborough strip club at the same time that the accuser was visiting hospitals complaining of intense pain from being assaulted.
A time-stamped video shows a woman at The Platinum Club on March 26. The club’s former security manager, H.P. Thomas, identified her as the accuser.
The video, reviewed by The News & Observer, shows a limber performer. The same woman told doctors at UNC and Duke hospitals around that time that she had been beaten and assaulted and was racked with pain.
“Other senior prosecutors are equally qualified to do the job.”
Before you start playing the race card, you should at least read the article! No one from the prosecutor’s office has interviewed the so called victim: “Nifong said none of his assistants have discussed the case with the woman either ”
“If lynch mobs were still in existence, these are the kind of people who would be eager to get their hands on the rope.”
Who’s in favor of lynch mobs? Not me. I want justice. You are the one who wants prosecution with no evidence.
“they regularly prove themselves to be some of the most stupid I have encountered in the blogosphere. “
Any person who wants to send innocent people to jail based on no evidence are stupid in my book.
And one last thing, exactly where did I even mention race?! At no point do I ever mention the race of the alleged victim or the alleged perpetrators.
SN, you must be a bigot. There is absolutely no other reason that explains your continual posting of race baiting entries such as this one to this blog.
As I said before, the alleged victim in this case is getting the same opportunity any alleged victim does. She reported a crime. The crime was investigated and probable cause was found to file charges. The next step is the defendants.’ They can either enter a plea to a lesser charge or go to trial. At trial, they will either be convicted or acquitted. That is exactly the way the system is supposed to work.
The only reason this case is ‘controversial,’ is because of the race of the victim. If the victim were white, you and the overwhelmingly while male lynch mob accosting her would be silent. (Assuming that you are not so misogynistic you cheer alleged rapes of white women, too.) You may never have said the word ‘black’ in your diatribe, but you didn’t need to to make your reasons for abusing this alleged victim clear.
Justice in the legal system is really dispute resolution. There is no right not to be charged, only a right to a fair trial. This dispute will be resolved at trial. (Though, if I were representing one of the accused I would consider a plea bargain since the strategy of making a lot of noise in the media in hope of intimidating the prosecutor obviously is not working.)
Meanwhile, continue to parade your bigotry if you choose. It says more about you than it does the young woman in this case.
Podesta, I dismantled your PC diatribe like a cheap watch, and don’t delude yourself for a minute that everyone attending this thread hasn’t noted your pathetic attempt to evade my charges. Maybe you think you’ll get farther with your weak-as-water comeback to SN.
Well, while we await that worthy’s response, should he decide to dignify your line of PC crap with any response, I’ll just set your mind at rest on a couple of points you feebly attempt to raise.
His “continual posting of race-baiting entries,” eh? No citations, just unsupported hot air. What you and other brainwashed PCers don’t get is that people who can use their own brains (instead of parroting partisan propaganda) have grown weary of the endless litany of “Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad” that flows uninterrupted from the far-left ideologues who have made careers out of championing the rights of professional victims.
She reported a crime. The crime was investigated and probable cause was found to file charges. Bullshit. The whole point is that the crime was NOT investigated, but Nifong simply saw an opportunity to play the race card for his personal benefit. If the alleged crime had in fact been properly investigated, the accuser’s history of false accusations, her history of substance abuse, the contradictions in her various accounts, her companion’s statements’ contradiction of her allegations, the utter and total absence of DNA from any of the accused along with the presence of semen from three other men, the fact that the photo lineup was deliberately, unethically and possibly unlawfully improperly conducted, the fact that one of the accused has a ton of solid evidence to demonstrate that he was nowhere around – these facts, taken individually are enough to make ANY competent, ethical prosecutor have sufficient doubt to investigate further before deciding to proceed with charges. But Nifong did not do so. He charged these guys, despite the mulitple sources of evidence contradicting the accuser’s account, the accuser’s exceptionally poor credibility, and the high relative credibility of the accuseds, not to mention the absence of evidence against them and the considerable evidence for their version…
Mike Nifong is the racist. The accuser is a drunken, drug-abusing prostitute. And those not wearing the blinders of racist anti-white ideology see it quite clearly.
We’ve already heard the exact same line of shit you’re now spewing in this thread, in the infamous Tawana Brawley case.
This is nothng more than Tawana II, and you are nothing more than a dollar-store Al Sharpton wannabe.
Pathetic.