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Duke To Reinstate Seligmann, Finnerty (DukeLax)
WTVD ^ | January 3, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 01/03/2007 10:57:18 AM PST by abb

(01/03/07 -- DURHAM) - Duke lacrosse defendants Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are both expected to be reinstated today as Duke students in good standing, two sources close to the case told ABC News. Also on abc11tv.com: Send us news tips | Desktop Alert | ABC11 AccuWeather | Pinpoint Traffic Defendant David Evans was allowed to graduate last spring, but underclassmen Seligmann and Finnerty were suspended from the University pending a resolution of the assault charges.

December 22, 2006, prosecutors dropped rape charges against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges.

According to court papers filed by District Attorney Mike Nifong, the accuser says she now does not know if she was penetrated during the alleged attack.

The accuser, a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University, has said three men raped her in a bathroom at a March 13 Duke lacrosse team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper.

The indicted players - Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - all say they are innocent, and their attorneys have consistently said no sex occurred at the party.

Evans graduated from Duke in May, the day before he was indicted. Sophomores Finnerty and Seligmann were suspended following their April 2006 indictments.

The Duke lacrosse team was also suspended from play, but was reinstated in June on a provisionary basis.

A press conference from defense attorneys is expected this afternoon.

Stay with abc11tv.com and ABC11 Eyewitness News for the latest on this developing story.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; durham; nifong
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To: colorado tanker

great point!


41 posted on 01/03/2007 11:34:40 AM PST by mockingbyrd (Good heavens! What women these Christians have-----Libanus)
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To: flashbunny
who is lying down with dogs?

The guys who pay strippers to perform at their parties.

43 posted on 01/03/2007 11:35:46 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: Howlin

I hope so. Keeps the pressure on Fong.


44 posted on 01/03/2007 11:36:07 AM PST by Sue Perkick (Just a water spider on the pond of life.)
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To: tomcorn
Yes but Nifong's constituency likes what he is doing.
45 posted on 01/03/2007 11:36:18 AM PST by snarkytart
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To: TommyDale

"That is precisely why the Duke applications dropped by 20% this year. Other universities in North Carolina are also down, as a result of Mike Nifong and his psychotic behavior."

I was looking at moving my business there, but changed my mind when all of this Nifong crap started.


46 posted on 01/03/2007 11:36:36 AM PST by Kirkwood
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To: abb
"By now it should be plain to any person who has any objectivity that the charges against Reade are transparently false," the statement continued. "Reade is absolutely innocent and we will continue to fight this injustice. We are not going to rest until Reade's good name has been cleared and those who have been responsible for this injustice have been held fully accountable."

Well said!

47 posted on 01/03/2007 11:38:15 AM PST by Ken H
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To: newgeezer

The DA & the FA are the ones responsible for this.


48 posted on 01/03/2007 11:39:43 AM PST by Sue Perkick (Just a water spider on the pond of life.)
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To: lesko

Let the lawsuits against the Collge begin!


49 posted on 01/03/2007 11:41:07 AM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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To: snarkytart

I'm not sure they have the resources to benefit him that much at the moment.

The wheels on the bus are goin' round and round.


50 posted on 01/03/2007 11:41:35 AM PST by Sue Perkick (Just a water spider on the pond of life.)
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To: abb

All previous tuition ought to be returned to these students.


51 posted on 01/03/2007 11:42:11 AM PST by OldFriend (THE PRESS IS AN EVIL FOR WHICH THERE IS NO REMEDY)
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To: abb

I would tell duke to go pound sand, and let everyone there know how they back their students ( guilty until proven innocent ) let the school rot on the vine as far as I am concerned..


52 posted on 01/03/2007 11:42:45 AM PST by joe fonebone (Time to get the old hippies out of government.)
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To: flashbunny

I would say their reputationsa are reinstated. In fact, famously so.


53 posted on 01/03/2007 11:43:01 AM PST by RobRoy
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To: abb

I wouldn't value anything coming out of these vicious weasel Duke bureaucrats - any good they try to do now is merely to try to save their own rancid butts.

fwiw, years ago, long before this case, I knew a former Duke dean (working as a dean at another supposedly "elite" university)..... who was the most untrustworthy, vicious, PC-idiot, vile piece-of-human-excrement I have known anywhere in my lifetime. That nasty clown was also involved in setting up false accusations (though not on the scale of this case) and frying students who were not sufficiently PC. I tried hard to get that other university do do something about it, but of course they protected the scumbag (and themselves). There is something about Duke and some similar PC universities that breeds some of the most mendacious PC-bureaucrats anywhere.


54 posted on 01/03/2007 11:45:24 AM PST by Enchante (Chamberlain Democrats embraced by terrorists and America-haters worldwide!!)
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To: mockingbyrd; tomcorn
He, he, he. I think he'll find all his new-found "friends" will be MIA when the time comes to take the fall.
55 posted on 01/03/2007 11:45:42 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: abb

"We are not going to rest until Reade's good name has been cleared and those who have been responsible for this injustice have been held fully accountable."

Good.


56 posted on 01/03/2007 11:46:19 AM PST by imskylark
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To: CFC__VRWC

I'd return to campus just so I could routinely flip off and otherwise taunt the group of 88.


57 posted on 01/03/2007 11:51:30 AM PST by Locomotive Breath (In the shuffling madness)
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To: abb
Out of that article I found this to be most interesting:

and those who have been responsible for this injustice have been held fully accountable.

58 posted on 01/03/2007 11:53:15 AM PST by El Gran Salseron (The World-Famous, very popular, FReeper Canteen Equal-Opportunity, Male-Chauvinist-Pig! ROFL)
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To: abb

Hey Duke administrators: Too little, too late. Get ready for the lawsuits that could very well bankrupt your univerity thanks to your race-bait appeasing knee-jerk (and typically libscum) actions.


59 posted on 01/03/2007 11:53:43 AM PST by piytar
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To: Sue Perkick
The DA & the FA are the ones responsible for this.

Sure, they're partly to blame.

But, if not for the fact that these nice young gentlemen hired a stripper (dog) to bump and grind for their lovely little party, NONE of the damage (fleas) would have occurred.

A stripper with integrity issues? Good heavens, what's next?!!!

Throw the book at Nifong. But, spare me the crying about the boys' reputations.

60 posted on 01/03/2007 11:54:47 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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