Posted on 05/15/2006 9:11:17 PM PDT by Eagle9
DURHAM, N.C., May 15 — A third lacrosse player was indicted Monday in the rape investigation that has raised racial and class tensions between Duke University and its hometown.
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Mr. Evans graduated from Duke on Sunday but did not attend the commencement ceremony. Before turning himself in on Monday, he emphatically denied guilt at a news conference, becoming the first indicted player to speak publicly.
"These allegations are lies, fabricated, and they will be proven wrong," he said. "Every member of the Duke University lacrosse team is innocent."
Mr. Evans said that he and his roommates had voluntarily helped the police when officers executed a search warrant at their house, and that he willingly provided DNA, spoke to investigators without a lawyer present and offered to take a polygraph test, which officials declined.
He said that he and his lawyer, Joseph B. Cheshire V, had tried repeatedly but unsuccessfully to contact the district attorney, Michael B. Nifong, before Monday's indictment.
"As a result of his apparent lack of interest in my story, the true story," Mr. Evans said, he and his lawyer had arranged for a private polygraph test. "I passed it absolutely," he said, adding: "I've never had my character questioned before. Anyone who's met me knows that this didn't happen."
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"That, according to our expert, is about as weak a DNA analysis as you could ever have," Mr. Cheshire said. He said the nail had been found in a trash can and could have been contaminated by used tissues or other items carrying the players' DNA.
Mr. Seligmann has provided, through his lawyer, a detailed alibi including cash machine and food receipts that his lawyer says show that he could not have taken part in any assault.
Mr. Cheshire said a vaginal swab taken from the accuser showed semen from a male, named in the report on the results, who was not a Duke lacrosse player. The test would not indicate when the semen was deposited.
The prosecutor is out of control!!
Seems to be obsessed. He's definitely lost it -- his mind, that is.
this is sounding like moby dick.
No, Moby Dick is what Crystal's boyforiend be using on her butt before she be going to work that night.
Everything about this case says that the standard has been changed to "guilty until proven innocent".
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