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Police: Gang Threats Postpone Murder Trial By Darla Miles (DURHAM) - Durham officials have postponed a murder trial amid alleged gang-related threats of violence... Tuesday's courthouse melee erupted on the fifth-floor, after key witnesses backed out of the Nicholson trial. They said they were being threatened.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=local&id=4604761 09/27/06 -- DURHAM) - Durham officials have postponed a murder trial amid alleged gang-related threats of violence. (snip) (Nifong said), "The District Attorney's Office is not equipped to protect witnesses in any situation. There aren't any local witness protection programs, or anything of that nature. The fact is people are to some extent on their own, in terms of their protection."

DURHAM -- Kim Roberts, a dancer who performed at a Duke lacrosse party that ended with rape charges, admitted five probation violations today and will serve up to two months under house arrest.

DURHAM -- Kim Roberts, a dancer who performed at a Duke lacrosse party that ended with rape charges, admitted five probation violations today and will serve up to two months under house arrest.. . Roberts was convicted in 2001 of embezzling $25,000 from a Durham photo finishing company where she worked in the payroll department. . . The probation violations that Roberts admitted to in court were: -- She was behind on restitution payments. -- She missed two appointments with a probation officer. -- She left the state without permission. -- She quit her job without notifying probation officers. --...

http://www.yaledailynews.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=15802 (from 2001) "The president graduated in the same class as Yale College Dean Richard Brodhead. With both showing a penchant for Sterling Memorial Library, and its comfortable couches, Bush said he and Brodhead had a mutual understanding." "Dick wouldn't read aloud, and I wouldn't snore," Bush joked. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Phillips_Academy_in_Andover Class of 1963: * Richard H. Brodhead -- President, Duke University * George W. Bush -- President of the United States (Does this explain why the FBI has taken a 'hands off" attitude towards civil rights violations in the lacrosse case?) In 2005, three FBI agents were dispatched to Durham after...

UNREPORTED by any of the major media, but-- Apparently police have already destroyed evidence in the Duke lacrosse case : http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/ "...the "highlight" of the Duke Hoax hearing came with the announcement by the prosecution that the recordings of all Durham Police Department radio calls for March 13th and 14th had been destroyed. "It seems Durham Police Department tape use policy calls for tapes to be reused after 60 days. So, even though tapes were requested in April 28th motion by the defense, and ordered by Judge Stephens on May18th, "the prosecution now maintains that the tapes were destroyed on...

Canada's national public radio CBC Radio has aired a commentary by a retired professor from the Royal Military College calling for state control over religion, specifically Catholicism. (snip) "Couldn't we insist that human rights, employment and consumer legislation apply to them as it does other organizations? Then it would be illegal to require a particular marital status as a condition of employment or to exclude women from the priesthood. " Ferguson continued, "Of course the Vatican wouldn't like the changes, but they would come to accept them in time as a fact of life in Canada. Indeed I suspect many...