This Newsweek wrapup contains some useful new facts and clarifications.
1. Stripper 2 arrived on-time at 11:30 in her own car. The accuser arrived 30 minutes late, dropped off by an unidentified person.
2. When the strippers entered the house, the guys gave them drinks. Stripper 2 says that she drank none of hers, and that the accuser drank half of her own, knocked it over, then drank Stripper 2's.
3. Stripper 2 arrived for her rape exam at 2:30am, so there wasn't much time for somebody else to beat her or help her fake rape injuries.
4. The rape examine included drug testing, but the results haven't returned.
5. After leaving together, Stripper 2 got mad at the accuser, suspecting that the accuser was "trying to rip her off." That's why Stripper 2 tried to get the accuser out of her car.
6. Both strippers are seeking civil damages from the rich honkies.
7. Stripper 2 says she shouted to the boys, "I called the police, assholes!" Presumably, the implication was that she had used her cell phone to do so, then immediately made good on her claim with the fake call from a pay phone.
8. The neighbor who heard the "cotton" racial slur also heard an intense argument over money, and racial slurs from the strippers. But he reports no use of the "n" word, in contradiction to Stripper 2.
But the article omitted some important facts:
1. Despite claiming to have not drunk, the security guard says she smelled alcohol on Stripper 2.
2. The photos show the accuser slapping one of the honkies.
2006-04-23
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The DA is surely the worst possible DA. Can anybody be happy with him? Here's info the lineup that the accuser used to finger the two arrested guys. This lineup was either illegal and will be thrown out, or at the very least defense can impugn it before a jury. One NC attorney describes the lineup as "a multiple choice test with no incorrect answers." But, alas, there may very well have been a few incorrect answers: guys who can prove that they weren't a the house, at least during the time during which any alleged rape would havde occured.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=1877707&page=1
Why name accusers in a sex case?
Why do so many articles describe the boys as "rowdy", "rounchy", "out of control", but not also apply these charactorizations to the strippers? Why do so many articles take pains to describe the strippers as "single parents" and "full time students", but not to describe the lacrosse players as people who have made successful responsible reproductive choices, have excellent grades in tough majors, and some of them indeed come from blue collar families?
Hiring and working as a stripper is a seedy, shameful business. The practice calls into question the morality and credability of those on each side of the question. For this reason, inherently each accusation (rape, false rape claim) is plausable. For that reason sensible people require other facts in order to arrive at their opinion. The people who delcared a certain opinion prior to the DNA results (including the DA!) are massive ignoramouses who deserve no credability now, save for those who changed their minds and now admit that they erred in making a conclusion so soon.
More racist nonsense, properly ungramatical: "This poor girl won't never get a fair shake in Durham. The law here is to keep us in check - it doesn't apply to the people over there."
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/sports/14409869.htm
The mayor and a majority of city council members are black, as was the in-charge police officer to first interacted with the accuser, an officer who changed his effort from arresting the girl for public intoxication to treating her seriously as a crime victim. And despite Stripper 2 having "alcohol on her breath", these officers didn't arrest her for having driven, and let her drive away. Each 911 call got responded to within minutes, including the first one, which didn't even report a crime, only the shouting of racist terms. The white DA declared that a crime occured and that three of the honkies committed it even before DNA results returned, and he further declared that the players were not cooperating, which seems as suspect as do the charges.
And a few years ago a black Duke student got arrested for raping a white girl; the charges got dropped with the return of the same negative DNA results that the DA -- and all the immediate, absolute, unquestioning stripper supporters -- now disregard. And a week or so ago two black murder suspects in Durham got released on $4,000 bond, compared to the $400,000 bond set for the rape suspects with the negative DNA results.
As is so often the case when racism gets charged in modern America: WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?
David vs. Galliath, the accuser's cousin declares: indeed. The accused face the mighty power of the entire city government. Where would they be if they were not wealthy? Their wealth does nothing but level the playing field.
The above Time article contains some embarrassing (for the organ) factual errors:
1. Only one stripper arrived at 11:30. The accuser arrived at midnight, and that's when the stripping started.
2. None of the guys delcared that he was going to shove a broomstick up the strippers. Rather, one guy asked if they had brought sex toys, refering to a very common practice among private strippers. When they said no, he said, "That's OK, use a broomstick", which the "ladies" took as intolerably rude and disprespectful (an interesting perspective, given their occupation).
3. The article omits claims by the guys that the girls then locked themselves into the bathroom for 20 minutes.
4. The article accepts the strippers claim that after exiting the house the guys cajoled the girls back inside. The guys claim that after the 20 minute bathroom refuge, the girls exited and went to Stripper 2's car. The guys claim that the accuser returned to recover items that she left inside, but that the guys refused to let her back in, and she never got back in, even after trying via the back door, where the accuser passed out on the porch, a fact documented by photos. It is during this time that Stripper 2 assumes that the accuser was back inside the house getting gang raped.
4. The article omits the fake 911 call by Stripper 2, which erroneously portrays the guys as hanging around on the porch shouting "nigger" at random black passers-by, and stating that the guys did not harm them.
5. The article mis-charactorizes Stripper 2's interaction at the grocery store as merely a request for "help". In fact, the two strippers got into their own argument, with Stripper 2 thinking that the accuser was "ripping her off", with a claim to have left her $400 payment back at the house, in her makeup bag.
6. The article takes the stripper's view on why the guys used fake names and mispresented themselves as members of the baseball team: because they wanted an alibi in case of a rape. The guys claim they did this to protect themselves from trouble with under-age drinking and instructions from their coach to behave maturely. If they were covering up a rape, why did they hide all evidence of drinking, but not the accuser's left-behind makeup case, cell phone, ID, and fake nails?
David vs. Galliath, the accuser's cousin declares: indeed. The accused face the mighty power of the entire city government. Where would they be if they were not wealthy? Their wealth does nothing but level the playing field.
"New evidence—unseen by Nifong before the indictments—emerged that could exonerate one of the suspects."
In contrast to the DA's charge that the players have been uncooperative, their attornies have tried to present evidence to the DA, only to have the DA refuse to see them. Even if somehow evidence emerges to prove the accuser's charge, the name "Nifong" will become synonymous with amazingly bad prosecution, an academic and popular example of such.
"New evidence—unseen by Nifong before the indictments—emerged that could exonerate one of the suspects."
In contrast to the DA's charge that the players have been uncooperative, their attornies have tried to present evidence to the DA, only to have the DA refuse to see them. Even if somehow evidence emerges to prove the accuser's charge, the name "Nifong" will become synonymous with amazingly bad prosecution, an academic and popular example of such.
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