Posted on 11/17/2017 8:05:09 PM PST by lasereye
Gloria Allred, the attorney for Roy Moore accuser Beverly Young Nelson, says she won’t permit an inspection of her client’s high school yearbook unless the Senate conducts a hearing on Nelson’ charge that Moore tried to rape her. The yearbook is important because Nelson and Allred presented it as evidence that Moore knew Nelson and had a romantic interest in her.
Moore’s camp has provided reason to believe that he did not sign Nelson’s yearbook. The lawyer for his campaign notes that Moore presided over Nelson’s divorce case in 1999. He says Moore’s clerk stamped the divorce papers with the judge’s signature and added her initials — “DA.”
Those same initials appear by Moore’s name in the yearbook inscription Nelson and Allred adduced, even though Moore was not a DA at the time in question. In addition, the “7s” that appear in the date near the signature appear to be written differently from those that appear elsewhere in the inscription. The inference is that Nelson doctored the yearbook.
To test this theory, Moore’s camp has asked that the yearbook be produced so its handwriting expert can examine it. Among others things, an examination might reveal whether the ink used for the signature dates back to the period when Nelson was a teenager, as opposed to when she became a divorcee.
If Nelson did not doctor the yearbook, she should be eager to have it inspected in order to refute Moore’s claim, backed by evidence, that he did not sign the yearbook. In addition, production of the yearbook would clearly help the voters of Alabama get at the truth.
But Allred is stonewalling. To be sure, she hasn’t flatly refused to produce the yearbook. However, she has set an impossible condition for its production before the Alabama Senate election.
That condition, as noted, is a Senate hearing on allegations against Moore. The Senate isn’t going to hold a hearing about the conduct of a mere candidate, and Allred knows it.
By withholding the yearbook at least until after the election, she increases the likelihood that Moore will lose. This, I suspect, is one of her purposes — and her client’s, as well.
Allred isn’t just stonewalling on production of the yearbook. In her television appearances, she won’t say that the signature on the yearbook is Moore’s. She won’t even say whether Moore presided over Nelson’s divorce.
Here, for what it’s worth, is what I suspect happened. Moore did write a note in Nelson’s yearbook, but did not sign it (a prudent decision). When Nelson decided to accuse Moore of rape, she added Moore’s signature, using her divorce paper.
Allred now realizes that her client committed a huge blunder — one that undermines, if not destroys, her credibility. Hence, the stonewalling.
Allred is banking on Moore withdrawing from the race or losing it. In that case, there won’t be a Senate hearing — the condition she set for producing the yearbook.
Moore, though, may sue Nelson. In that event, it’s possible that Nelson might have to produce the yearbook. There’s nothing Allred can do about this, but she can prevent the hole Nelson has dug from getting deeper. To claim, at this juncture, that Moore signed the yearbook would, if my suspicion is correct, deepen the hole.
Assuming that Nelson doctored the yearbook, does this mean her allegation of attempted rape is false? No. But it does seriously damage the case for believing this allegation.
If Nelson “embellished” Moore’s yearbook inscription, we should have little confidence that she hasn’t embellished her story of what transpired between the two.
To be sure, other serious allegations have been lodged against Moore by other women. They provide Alabamans with plenty of reason not to want to vote for him.
But I wonder whether, if Nelson is shown to have doctored the yearbook, Alabama voters will see Moore as a victim and choose to credit him over those who are making the most serious allegations.
The dog will eat it...
Moore has one play to make or he is not going to win. His attorney needs to file an action and try to convince a judge to issue an immediate order to surrender the yearbook for forensic analysis. It must be examined or irreparable harm will be done to the voters of Alabama. Those favoring him will be disenfranchised. I can’t believe his attorney has not already tried to do that. She is not going to give it up voluntarily.
If Allred fights that action, it will certainly add to the speculation that the yearbook signature is a fraud. If she complies and it turns out to be a fraud, it changes the dynamic and all the other so-called witnesses will lose a certain amount of credibility.
At this point, it is all about public perception. Right now, people are tending to believe multiple witnesses. He doesn’t have much time to change that perception. There may be no attempted rape and he may have violated no laws, but the perception is that he is creepy by chasing after girls. The key is the yearbook.
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Good point. Added the fact the accuser kept her yearbook with the supposedly signature of her supposedly harasser, all those years!
Can anyone believe it, a sane person would have thrown away such yearbook or at least the page with the signature. The woman is a despicable liar, and dumb at that.
Can anyone believe it, a sane person would have thrown away such yearbook or at least the page with the signature. The woman is a despicable liar, and dumb at that.
but but but Dana Perino says they have to be believed because they are TRUMP Supporters!!! LOL
“Everyone TWEET JUDGE JEANINE for jumping to conclussions so fast & condemning Roy Moore over that signature!!!”
No one in the media should have been airing uncorroborated hearsay crap from forty years ago. That’s soviet and banana republic stuff. They all need to get their asses sued off.
(Gloria will be asserting that this man is declaring here that that woman accuser she represents, when asked late one night who signed that yearbook, responded like the text shown below.)
"In the midnight hour, she cried 'Moore! Moore! Moore!'"
We always got our yearbooks before graduation so that everyone could sign them before the big day.
Another thing that’s interesting is the gal said that she worked at The Old Hickory at 305 East Meighan. However, an ad dated Jan 2, ‘78 shows the Old Hickory at 207 (not east) Meighan. They moved to 305 East Meighan after Jan ‘78.
Look at the address on the ad. The AL.com reporter totally missed it.
1977:
https://twitter.com/billineastala/status/930519160123248640
Compare with the addy from the City Directory 1978:
https://twitter.com/billineastala/status/930480416364158976
Let’s just hope the majority of voters in Alabama haven’t fallen for this BS. The only thing the RINOcrats care about is creating enough doubt so Moore loses the election. If I was Moore I would as soon as possible announce a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Allred and the actress Beverly Young Nelson and anyone else involved for slander. I would also seek out evidence of the real age of the actress Beverly Young Nelson because if she’s 56, I’m the tooth fairy. Anyone could see a mile away she’s in her 70s.
Did anyone EVER get to inspect the “hand signed” Waco National Guard memo?
Such a grand hoax given days of national coverage on SeeBS News by Dan Ratherbiased and also in print via AssPress (Dan rushed his report because he didn’t want AP to run it first). None of the other nets challenged it for days (I think it broke on a Thursday) even though the fraud was detected within the first day.
And no one went to jail and no one lost their broadcasting license.
#FakeButAccurate
Harry Reid will tell you that a good lie in a campaign is ok, “it worked didn’t it?” (with regards to Mitt’s tax returns).
If he disgusted her so and they had a history together, wouldn’t she have sought a different judge to preside over her divorce proceedings? Have him recuse himself from her case?
>>According to the President Clinton Rule, accusations of sexual misconduct are irrelevant.
Beyond that, Gloria Steinem said that even Bill dropping his trousers and saying “kiss it” was acceptable because when she said “no” he stopped.
That means much of the gross behavior of Harvey Weinstein was safe under the Clinton Rule.
No, Allred realizes she was part of the fraudulent conspiracy
And is subject to disciplinary action by the Bar.
Now THAT is the question EVERYONE should be asking!!!
Go after All-Red. Block the Hillary Super-delegate from ever doing this again.
It’s akin to Anita Hill following the supposedly offensive Clarence Thomas from job to job.
Or whether the signature is a couple of weeks old.
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