Posted on 04/27/2007 11:38:44 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
A long-awaited report from the North Carolina attorney general's office, issued Friday, gives exact details of the evidence that led the office to exonerate the three former Duke University lacrosse players who had been accused of sexual assault in the wake of an off-campus party last spring.
The 21-page report details the alibi of Garden City's Collin Finnerty along with the other two accused players, Reade Seligmann of Essex Fells, N.J., and David Evans of Bethesda, Md. on the night of the party.
Attorney General Roy Cooper said the voluminous evidence his special prosecutors gathered in a three-month period established beyond doubt that no crime took place that night.
Finnerty had long ago left the party and was in a different off-campus house in Durham, N.C., in the company of several other Duke students, at the time of the alleged attack, the report says.
Meanwhile the dancer herself was observed, at the house, "talking incoherently, apparently to no one in particular," the report said.
"In a video recorded at 12:31:26 a.m., she is talking to one of the party attendees saying 'I'm a cop' and making other comments which were difficult to understand," the report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
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I nominate this headline for the most incomprehensible award.
I second the motion.
motion passed.
"The State's cases rested primarily on a witness whose recollection of the facts of the allegations was imprecise and contradictory," the report said. "This alone would have made it difficult for a prosecutor to prove the allegations. However, with additional evidence uncovered in the new investigation, it was clear that there was no credible evidence that these crimes occurred at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. in Durham that night."
Meanwhile the dancer herself was observed, at the house, "talking incoherently, apparently to no one in particular," the report said.
"In a video recorded at 12:31:26 a.m., she is talking to one of the party attendees saying 'I'm a cop' and making other comments which were difficult to understand," the report said.
Hope that helps! ;)
Being Al Sharpton means never saying you’re sorry.
Gosh, I hope this report doesn’t sully CGM’s reputation. /S
Not "there is"...but "there was" no evidence. Rot in hell, Nifong and Sharpton.
“Being Al Sharpton means never saying you’re sorry.”\
Never the less........
Wouldn't that be just tragic, though...? ;)
Never happen, here’s why:
Sharpton: You guys were innocent? Tough t*t, this sh!t happens to black men all the time. How’s it feel white man?
To the one, that’s what all those race baiters are thinking.
An apology? What have you been smokin boy?
(1) The supposed assault occurred on March 14 2006.
(2) 20 days later - April 4 - it was already obvious that Mangum's story was completely out of whack with the exsiting evidence. Nothing in her version matched the hard photographic and timestamped data they had.
(3) It was already obvious that Mangum was (a) severely impaired with as many as five different drugs in her system on that night and (b) that she had a criminal record which included making false claims.
(4) Despite the fact that there was no evidence to support Mangum's story, and despite the fact that she was an unreliable witness whom no sane prosecutor would want on the stand, the DA went ahead anyway in full knowledge that he had no case.
It is clear that the DA not only suppressed DNA evidence illegally, but that he sent an investigator in to Mangum to help her concoct a more plausible story and refresh her memory using photographs - and that the investigator lied about what occurred in his report.
Nifong should be in prison.
I believe that, if you check back, you'll discover you're responding to the wrong person. ;)
If you go to this web page, there is a video on Mr. El Mustaffa, a cab driver who provided an alibi for one of the accused students. His account was corroborated by a time-stamped picture from an ATM machine showing one of the boys just as Mustaffa reported.
Nonetheless, the original DA’s investigators pressured El Mustaffah to change his story, and threatened him legally. It looks like a very obvious case of corrupt law enforcement at work.
El Mustaffa comments that he just tells the truth, “and everything will be all right.” Let’s hope so; and our respects to an honest man who comes through with his reputation and livelihood intact.
You’re right!
How the heck did that happen? It was meant for roaddog!
Typo twittery strikes again....
Since Nifong and the false accuser are not already in jail, I have to conclude that they will never be and that the authorities in NC are hoping that we sheep will just go away and forget the injustice brought upon innocent men with the full armed persuasive power of the police and the judicial system.
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