This "journalism" is truly outrageous. It's apparent they seem to be furthering the Alleged victim's defender's spin that took a Joy Ride in a cab.
In truth, with her license ALREADY revoked, she ripped off one of her 'customers' at a strip club, she committed larceny and tried to run over a police officer. It's a long article, but I didn't see any mention of her trying to run over a police officer. I didn't see her problems with substance abuse detailed in the article (3 license suspensions, WRAL).
This article if typical of the Main Stream Media. They are, purposefully, taking us farther away from the details of the case and saying this GROUP of people have it hard and have many redeeming qualities and this OTHER group of people are privleged and undeserving. Criminal Courts acknowledge and deal with INDIVIDUALS. In this case, with the two EX-CON stripper twins, it doesn't serve the media's purpose to examine the individuals, but examining an entire group allows them to make it seem like this woman was trapped and had no other choices in life.
They conveniently use a timeline that would help Nifong even though it goes against the word of the second stripper and an on-camera eyewitness account provider by the neighbor that happens to match photos that are in the possession of the Defense.
There's no mention of the multiple lies by Kim Roberts that night, in fact they are misleading in describing that "the dancers left together, and Roberts drove to a grocery store, where police were called." How different if that from what really happened. Roberts lied on a 911 call and blocked her number and identity while calling the cops and mentioning NO RAPE or Injury. Roberts attempted to dump the accuser at the Kroger. When the accuser wouldn't get out of her car, she asked a Kroger security guard for help. Again, Roberts lied to the security guard about how Crystal came to be in her car. The article neglects to mention there was an outstanding warrant out for Roberts. It fails to mention that a police station is less than a mile away and much closer than Kroger.
The article does not mention it took 31 hours for the dancer to remember any details of the event and 3 weeks to ID someone.
The article states that the woman has said almost nothing on her behalf. When, in fact, News&Observer reporters interviewed her extensively at least once and the resulting story printed contained contradictions and untruths - attributed to the accuser.
This is so typical of sleazy MSM journalism. Instead of quoting a knowledgeable expert who would say how hard it is to manipulate in a non-traceable way the underlying metadata where the time data is embedded, the reporter instead takes the idea she wants to get across (the time stamps are phony) from the mouth of some random interviewee who, strictly speaking, need not as a journalistic matter have a reasonable basis for her statements.