This is not necessarily good news for the accused. Drunk females can be considered impaired, and more vulnerable to unwanted sexual advances. The key here--it seems to me--is where she was prior to to showing up at the LAX house.
Excellent observation! I understand that the defense attorneys have hired an investigator. Perhaps he's tracking her movements before she arrived at the party house. I certainly hope so.
I'm sure that if this does go to trial that the accused is going to show up with the cutest co-ed Reese Witherspoon type he can find sitting behind him in court (he might have to borrow her from UNC) and essentially make the implicit argument, "you think I'm going to touch her when I can have that."
Crude I know but this case isn't pretty and it's going to get uglier.
Think about this: a police officer thinks she's dead drunk; Sports Illustrated is now saying that she didn't accuse anybody or rape and never mentioned Duke.
So when DID she accuse them? Could it have possibly been the time -- 31 hours -- that the Durham City Manager said it took for the "accuser to get her story together?"
If she never named them until 31 hours later, this is O V E R.