[Howlin]

Think back to when we were waiting to hear about these reports: am I wrong in remembering we thought it took an inordinate amount of time?

If Nifong was meeting with the firm, I guess he was trying to "tweak" the report.

[Ready4Freddy]

Tweakfong. lol

[savedbygrace]

One of the demands the defendants' attorneys are making in the most recent motion is for production of "Communications Logs", which were NOT included with the thousands of pages of material the lab sent. Imagine that.

[Ready4Freddy]

Posted on LieStoppers:

Flashback [to Sept 22 hearing]:

"Also on Friday, Nifong took a jab at defense lawyers when they sought more information about DNA testing.

"The defense lawyers want to know more about who did the testing and how it was done. They asked for DNA reports from the SBI and private lab that did a second round of testing in case other DNA was identified during the testing.

"Doug Kingsbery, a Raleigh lawyer representing Finnerty, said that other DNA might have been found that did not match any of the lacrosse players or others tested for matches.

"Nifong answered that it was ironic that the attorneys now want the "typical witch hunt list" to cast doubt on how the DNA was tested"

http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/489469.html

Whiny little bitch, ain't he?

[Ready4Freddy]

Howlin, you've made several great points when suggesting that we '...think back to when...'.

LieStoppers has some more great '...think back to when...' instances:

May 3 Nifong comments to WRAL:

“My guess is that there are many questions that many people are asking that they would not be asking if they saw the results…They're not things that the defense releases unless they unquestionably support their positions…So, the fact that they're making statements about what the reports are saying, and not actually showing the reports, should in and of itself raise some red flags."

and, in a June email to Newsweek, "In a tersely worded e-mail, the District Attorney lamented": "...

“What has surprised me is the utter lack of any degree of skepticism of the part of the national media with respect to the claims of the defense attorneys, many of which are misleading and some of which are absolutely false. As an example, when those attorneys held press conferences to announce that the first round of DNA testing "completely exonerated" the players (a claim that, on its face, is rather preposterous), I saw not a single report that any reporter had actually seen the test results (none of them had), or had asked to see them and had that request denied (which is what happened to those who bothered to ask).”

Both of these statements, and I'm sure several more, made by Nifong with the full knowledge that no one else had even seen the reports, much less the detail revealed in the October discovery dump. What a prick. And what an idiot, knowing full well that he'll eventually have to produce this stuff.

It should be noted again that the import of the DNA testing information in yesterday's filing is that it suggests a high probability that Nifong conspired with Meehan, and perhaps Hinman & Gottlieb, to tweak the DNA report summary.

The fact that the FA had multiple partners before the party isn't really that important - everyone already assumed that, and I'm betting that the DNA wasn't used in the GJ presentation by Nifong

Also - some here are suggesting that the 'knew it in April, produces it in October' is a clear indication that the DA isn't adhering to NC's Open-file discovery law [thanks for the info on the law, btw]. Unfortunately, that's not true - the law only requires that the DA produce his file 'a reasonable period before trial' or something like that. He probably hasn't violated that law (yet).