The June 26 Sports Illustrated has a comprehensive look at the appalling Duke lacrosse rape prosecution. The June 29 Newsweek package isn’t too friendly either (via Newmark). Earlier: Jun. 13, May 22, May 17, May 4.
Duke lacrosse rape case in SI
The June 26 Sports Illustrated has a comprehensive look at the appalling Duke lacrosse rape prosecution. The June 29 Newsweek package isn’t too friendly either (via Newmark). Earlier: Jun. 13, May 22, May 17, May 4.
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I am a proud graduate of UNC undergrad and law, and visited Chapel Hill last week. It is quite telling that the overwhelming sentiment in Chapel Hill is that the case against players from the hated rival needs to be dropped.
SI is obviously a better source of information than Nancy Grace or Wendy Murphy.
Nancy (dis)Grace doesn’t care about victims if they’re falsely accused of rape, she and her friend Wendy Murphy will go to any extent to smear the victims and spin any evidence their way. Grace and Murphy mix commentary and reporting to “report” to the public how the rape really happened and how all the evidence that proves otherwise should be ignored.
First she says she was raped by 20 men, then by five men, then by three men after a frustrated police officer told her to “pick a number!”
First she didn’t say she was raped, then after being arrested she said she was raped, then she claimed the 2nd stripper helped with the rape and robbed her, and now she claims that the second stripper was separated from her, but the second stripper stated they were separated for less than 5 minutes.
First she denied being raped, then she said she was only vaginally raped, then she said she was beaten, choked, and kicked after being dragged into the bathroom by three players, but the medical reports stated that there was only mild vaginal swelling and small scraped on her knee and ankle. No signs of a beating.
First the stripper said she didn’t have sex for over a week, then she confessed that she had sex with her boyfriend, a vaginal sex toy at the party before the Duke party, with the two guys who drove her to the Duke party, and a “client” the day before. This women was dripping with DNA, non of which was from the boys.
The boys willingly volunteered DNA samples to prove that they were innocent.
The stripper’s father said the DNA will ID the rapist, but after the DNA came back negative, he claimed the stripper was raped with a broom, but the stripper confessed that she used a sexual toy vaginally in a show for a couple prior to making the false calim.
Since the rape never occurred, the DA made sure to use only Duke Lacrosse players in the line up, and the stripper identified 3 boys from 6 different line ups, but she wa never able to pick out the same boys twice. She eventually “eeny meeny miney moed” two boys who weren’t even at the party.
This case is already, even if there actually IS an underlying crime (HIGHLY unlikely), simply due to the behaviour of the prosecutor.
He has behaved extremely unethically, and it would appear quite obvious that he did so for political gain.
When this all blows over, I (lawsuit hater that I am) hope that they sue th ever-loving —- out of Nifong and the woman in question… not for the money, necessairily, but as further proof of their innocence. If you read one of those stories to the end, you’ll see that one of the players, aside from all the other crap they’ve had to endure, has lost the job he was offered due to this mess.
Actually, even more than that, I hope that Nifong ends up in prison for violating thir rights.