Posted on 12/18/2007 11:12:12 AM PST by Locomotive Breath
By Tamara Gibbs
DURHAM -- In a filing Tuesday in Federal Court, unindicted Duke Lacrosse players are suing Duke University, the City of Durham, Duke University professors, Mike Nifong and the DNA lab involved in the case.
The suit also names doctors and nurses who treated the alleged victim the night she claimed she'd been raped at a party. The players are also suing City Manager Patrick Baker and former Durham Police Chief Stephen Chalmers. As part of the investigation, the unindicted players had to give up DNA samples and were named in the school paper.
In the 404-page lawsuit, the players say that Duke University, the City of Durham and the other defendants were part of a "conspiracy to railroad 47 Duke University students" based on "the transparently false claim of rape, sexual offense, and kidnapping made by a clinically unreliable accuser." Also in the lawsuit, the players say that the accuser's claim was "taken virtually from her lips and fashioned into a weapon in the hands of those who would leverage outrage."
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sue the tramp too. get her behind bars!
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You can’t “sue” someone into prison.
I’d like to see the Gang of 88 end up sleeping on the streets.
Hope they win, doubt they will.
I LOVE it. This is how it should be. I will watch with delight as this unfolds. Get the popcorn.
Good for them!
I think this has to be done.
Not sure I'm on board with this part. Depose as witnesses maybe, but sue? Not unless maybe they falsified evidence or something.
you can if you can prove she perjured herself to the grand jury, the indicted DA and perhaps even a conspiracy charge w/the DA.
“Unindicted”!!!??????
How about “FALSELY ACCUSED”????
Are they suing the accuser, as well?
I would bet it gets settled out of court.
The stipper/whore is a proved liar, Nifong has been fired and disbarred. Why would you say they will not win?
Did she ever testify before the grand jury?
“sue the tramp too. get her behind bars!”
Won’t happen.
In the PC land of 2007 America, she is a triple-protected citizen:
Black, female and “mentally-disturbed”.
My initial reaction as well.
Not much prospect of collecting anything from a penniless skank, is there?
When the North Carolina Attorney General declared the three indicted players innocent and he said that there was never any evidence that a crime had occurred.
It appears that certain medical personnel at Duke hospital put out information early on that she had “signs, symptoms and injuries consistent with being raped and sexually assaulted” which allowed the false prosecution to proceed.
The accuser who had the DNA of five different men on her underwear, none of which were Duke lacrosse team members? We should not forget her or her deeds.What was her name?...
Ah yes! Her name is Crystal Gail Mangum.
May her name always be associated with her lies.
Yeah, I’d like to see her added to the suit. Can’t they get her for perjury for lying in a deposition? Surely she should do time for something, since she probably has no assets to speak of. As to Nifong, I hope he ends up totally broke.
“The suit also names doctors and nurses who treated the alleged victim the night she claimed she’d been raped at a party”
I have followed this case closely. SANE Nurse Levicy is a feminist hack who publicly stated that she has never faced a woman who lies about rape. She also repeatedly changed the results (to be in line with Nifong’s new story line). She was essential enabler for the hoax. She also made the report even though only doctor had the right do it. She should probably lose her license for that alone. She is now working somewhere in NH.
I hope they don’t forget to go after all the professors also.
I’ve been waiting for this one. Duke closed down the LaCrosse team and, as I recall, fired the coach. I wonder whether any of the players were at Duke on a LaCrosse scholarship and if so, what happened to their scholarship money.
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Why would you say they will not win?
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Sovereign immunity with respect to the state, among other defenses... nothing amounting to a tort on the part of the others.
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“It appears that certain medical personnel at Duke hospital put out information early on that she had “signs, symptoms and injuries consistent with being raped and sexually assaulted” which allowed the false prosecution to proceed.”
Well, that’s reporter talk for:
Nurses who knew Ms. MAGNUM from earlier hospital visits said “Honey,,, you could park your car in there.”
She’s a real piece of work. For details on this tramp, see:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265374,00.html
I wish they would have also included editorial writers, Jesse, Al et al for flaming the fire of hatred against them. They all definately conspired together.
One of the nurses did, actually.
They aren't suing the state; they are suing individuals. There is no sovereign immunity for individuals, even if they are acting on behalf of the state.
“I hope they don’t forget to go after all the professors also.”
Ah, but doesn’t their precious tenure protect their weak, withered, cowardly a$$es from ANYTHING up to and including multiple, mass murder via icepick.
I argue the article based on use of the word UNINDICTED.
I say, not a real word.
Reporters making up their own language. It figures.
I’d like to see the gang of 88 fired and the whole ethnic studies program dropped. The whole idea of re-writing history as a meta-narrative, blaming white men for all the short comings of minorities and restorative justice is anathema to fair and equal treatment under the law. Duke should be the first university in the country to stand up and denounce this psuedo intellectualism.
Good. Maybe if this door stays open the stink will finally get out of Durham. Not likely but I can dream.
>>>>The suit also names doctors and nurses who treated the alleged victim the night she claimed she’d been raped at a party.
Any other lawyer here want to hazard a guess as to what their cause of action is re the medical people?
What negligence is alleged on the part of the docs and nurses?
So she had an inflamed vagina due to multiple sexual episodes with multiple men for a few days. That could reasonable look like rape.
Well, as long as they are abandoning any pretense that it is not all about the money, I guess the decision sue everybody except the accuser makes sense.
Nothing is going to happen to Crystal. She’s pretty much been painted as a “victim” herself by the AG. I don’t expect that to change.
“...shown pictures of ONLY the Duke LAX team...”
Actually, only the WHITE players on the Duke LAX team.
If they races were switched they could get ten times what they’ll win here.
Might as well. They made up some of the “facts” in this case too.
Medical personnel assumed that she was raped, even though she changed her story back and forth while she was in their care.
Their decision to take her word for it and provide her with medical records that bolstered her claims could well be negligent.
Because she has the most beautiful blue eyes!
Tawana Brawley & Crystal Gail Mangum
Lying Racist Scum!
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