Posted on 05/12/2006 6:43:47 PM PDT by zaxxon
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A second round of DNA testing in the Duke University lacrosse rape case came back with the same result as the first -- no conclusive match to any member of the team, defense attorneys said Friday.
Attorney Joseph Cheshire, who represents a team captain who has not been charged, said the tests showed genetic material from a "single male source" was found on a vaginal swab taken from the accuser, but that material did not match any of the players.
"In other words, it appears this woman had sex with a male," said Cheshire, who spoke at a news conference with other defense attorneys in the case. "It also appears with certainty it wasn't a Duke lacrosse player."
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BS case from the beginning.
And, start looking at charges of false police report.
How many times do I gotta say GAME OVER
All you had to do was watch Nancy Grace..she got off this fast when the guy blew the DA out of the water at the newser
I don't know who will be sued, but I think this is going to be a major deal concerning the parents of every Duke Lacrosse team member. Defamation, false accusation, police misconduct, false arrest, and on and on...
It will be fun to watch.
"Been a lot of leakin goin on" by the prosecutor, to boot.
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You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip.
I grew up in a place where we knew not to mess around with the girls on the other side of the tracks. Maybe those young fellows got an education.
What police misconduct? The police did nothing wrong.
just saw the presentation from one of the defense attorneys:
she had sex with SOMEONE ELSE, not on the lacrosse team?
Greta discussing this now!
who conducted the "lineup" where she was shown only photos of lacrosse players - and told "pick out who it was"?
that's not the way you operate a fair lineup, by including only persons from the pool of possible perps.
this case is over, by any reasonable standard.
but who knows with Nifong.
No, it's:
If the DNA and the timeline do not fit, you must acquit!
"There is no indication that this man should have his name dragged through the mud," he said.
Someone prominent, perhaps?
Precisely.
I knew he had nothing from the second DNA test when he arrested the cab driver.
Yep; he's had this report at least two days and his office leaked it to the press, but couldn't find time to fax it to the defense team until 5:20 p.m. today.
The lineup; harassing witnesses with arrests for things people didn't do. Going to the dorm to talk to the players when they knew they had attorneys.
Lots of stuff.
She sure did.
The only semen was NOT theirs.
The cops were told to do it that way even after the cops told the DA that it was improper. IOW, the cops were POd at the DA and intentionally let Nifong screw it up.
The cops knew the kids were innocent and the screwup on the line-up made the ID of the two players inadmissable. The cops helped to prevent the prosecution of the players.
Believe me, I have no great love for most cops; but in this case, the cops did nothing wrong. Nifong ran all aspects of the investigation, and the cops let him screw it up by himself.
OK, fair enough.
I heard the details of that lineup process, and was stunned.
All at the insistence of Nifong. See post #19.
How do you know that?
how can he be "known to the Durham police department"? do they have his DNA? where did they get it? or do they have his admission that he had sex with her, and perhaps he gave a sample after admitting to it?
They didn't say how they knew him.
Actually she screwed up even that by saying one of the players had a mustache.
Not likely. If it was, the name would have been leaked by now.
Clintonian Document Dump.
It was over when Reade produced an air-tight alibi but that didn't stop Nancy Grace's pretzel logic to convince us that facts lie. She and Whorealdo were besides themselves with glee when learning DNA appeared on the fake fingernail. Presser is on now on Nancy Grace. Can't wait to hear her spin this.
If nothing fits, they must acquit,
Leaving Nifong in a snit.
Add your rhyme below.
Since it was male DNA, it IS possible for them to determine the race of the "donor." Wouldn't that set the fur flying!
Well, since they already know who he is, his race is not a mystery.
The real question is whether the accuser admitted to having sex with him.
If she didn't there should be a lot of fallout, including prosecution of the accuser. False police report & all that.
I wonder if he was a boyfriend, her pimp, or a customer?
"There is no indication that this man should have his name dragged through the mud," he said.
Someone prominent, perhaps?
More likely someone who 'employed' her as an 'escort' earlier in the evening.
It would seem logical that in whatever interveiws she gave the Durham PD, someone would have asked if she had sex earlier in the evening and then that individual would have been contacted for a swab to elimanate his DNA as suspect.
The media continues to forget that this woman is a ho.
Get out the popcorn...
I saw the presser. Nifong's "Case" got blown clean out of the water IMO. He wanted this to be the case that made his career. Nifong is toast.
yes, but by who? I don't know much about NC state politics - would the state attorney general go after him?
Yes. I think it's possible the NC state Attorney General's office could investigate. Someone should investigate Nifong's actions in this case.
Is Nifong still going to proceed with an indictment on Monday? The grand jury is meeting and supposedly he was going to present evidence of a "match" and indict a third player.
Otherwise people would not only not come forward with clues to crimes, they wouldn't report them ~ just take personal revenge as the opportunity presented itself.
To demand that the cops pull in people off the street is pretty much like what TSA does when it subjects old ladies in wheelchairs to body cavity searches down at the airport while looking for terrorists.
What rock have you been living under for the past month?
It was a photo lineup. She looked at pictures. No one was pulled in off the street.
Don't the Durham police have pictures of people other than the lacross team?
How about pictures of the last 500 or so young white guys they have arrested?
They could have identified the single male source in one of two ways:
1. The police did DNA tests on her boyfriend/John(s) (unlikely I think) or
2. The single male source was already in the national DNA database (meaning he has previous convictions or has been tested for other reasons).
Probably the latter. The defense attorneys could have a field day with this guy if he turns out to be a John. They don't want to drag his name through the mud now, but just wait until the trial date gets closer. He is the key to dragging Mangum's sexual history into the open in a way that the rape shield laws can't stop.
Nifong will try his best.
While I think he should be called as a witness, I am not a lawyer. Any lawyers out there with an opinion?
My bet is that he is either her pimp or a john. A boyfriend would have been mentioned already.
What do we make of Nifong having the cabbie arrested and intimidated after he had this DNA report, but before he shared it with the defense? At some point his immunity from civil prosecution for doing his job ends if there has been enough malfeasance. It looks like one could start to make a case that his purpose in getting indictments was to advance his personal political career, rather than the pursuit of justice. Not that there was much doubt, but now we have evidence.
Wouldn't it be a grand project for the Duke law school to take on hounding Nifong for a while?
You are clueless in the proper procedures of a photo lineup. Just use google, and figure it out. I'm tired.
I saw it on the local news last night and read the story this morning in the local paper.
What a joke.
Yeah, and after the air-tight alibi, the broomstick and date-rape drugs hit the presses. Again.
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