Thursday, May 18: I live-blogged today’s hearing. Exciting stuff!
Not. 
Tuesday, May 16 @ 4:18 p.m.: This post is closed. I will blog about the Duke hearing on Thursday and invite discussion. For now, let’s take a break.
Tuesday, May 16: VIDEO – The accuser should watch it. Interesting new info: DNA possibly matching a player was not found under the fingernail; defense attorney said the media misreported the findings. There was no blood, either.
The most ignorant-sounding person asking a question during Q&A: a black woman “activist” who doesn’t believe other black women are responsible for their own actions. She’s unjustifiably angry and rude and loud, giving an irrelevant and incoherent political speech. She interrupted the attorney and other reporters, although they’ve tried to show her respect. This is why people have negative stereotypes about blacks, justified or not. Standards of behavior are clearly different.
The hunt for the Great White Defendant is on! Put on your seatbelts.
On the reported spring 2007 trial date, Thomas Sowell said:
That makes no sense from either a legal or a social standpoint, whether the players are guilty or innocent. But it tells us something about District Attorney Nifong.
Suppose, for the sake of argument, that the players are guilty. What is the point of letting a bunch of rapists remain at large for another year? What about the dangers that they would pose to women on or off the Duke University campus?
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The announcement that the trial of the Duke lacrosse players has been postponed until the spring of 2007 may be District Attorney Nifong’s way of beginning the process of “telling the truth slowly.”
Monday, May 15 @ 1:57 p.m.: A third lacrosse player and team co-captain, David Evans, has been indicted in Nifong’s cheap carnival of a rape case. Evans said he passed a polygraph and helped police with the investigation from the beginning.
Don’t blow a gasket, dear readers. Be angry, but stay calm and focused. I already told you what will come to pass. At this point Nifong has no political choice. Despite Durham’s high crime rate, which includes actual rapes, he’s not about to drop this sexy man-bites-dog case. The truth will be made known eventually. Believe it.
TalkLeft’s Jeralyn Merritt knows Joe Cheshire, Evans’s attorney. She reports on the press conference.
Reade Seligmann will appear in court on Thursday. I’m certain his attorney will ask the judge to have the case dropped. It could happen. If not, don’t be surprised.
I’m reminded of a scene from one of my favorite movies, “JFK.” A career “black ops” military man called “X,” played by Donald Sutherland, laughs at Kevin Costner’s character, attorney Jim Garrison, when he expresses shock that people would conspire to murder a president for political gain.
“Kings are killed, Mr. Garrison. Politics is power, nothing more,” says X.
This case is not about rape. It’s about power, with a heavy dose of racial animosity and some media boredom thrown in. Keep your heads about you, and don’t reduce yourselves to profanity, slurs, or name-calling. People who know the truth don’t have to resort to such tactics.
This morning: A third indictment is likely today, readers. The travesty continues. As I wrote yesterday, Nifong will drag this out until after the November elections. A gang rape case involving “rich” white boys and an oppressed black woman is more entertaining and high profile than a non-rape case involving a stripper and her black “boyfriend.”
Update (5/14): A few comments about the latest news. From the New York Post:
The new findings do not necessarily suggest the boyfriend and alleged victim had sex the night of the reported rape; experts say traces of semen can stay in the body for up to six days after intercourse.
I have no reason to doubt the “experts” because I’m sure traces of semen can remain, but the question is, why wasn’t genetic material matching Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann, and the “third suspect” also found? Is the accuser claiming that the three raped her with only a broom? She also claimed they forced her to have oral sex. Was there any blood evidence or semen from the three found on her? If she were fighting back, why no DNA from Finnerty and Seligmann under the phony fingernails?
I predicted in one of the seven related posts that the stripper likely had sex with her “boyfriend” earlier in the day (and not “up to six days” before), which accounts for some of the bruises on her body and evidence “consistent” with what I consider rough sex, not rape. I suspect Nifong suspected the same but held out on testing the “boyfriend” until after the primaries.
The grand jury reconvenes tomorrow. Will a third player be indicted? While Nifong is running around on a wild goose chase, a big fat one is sitting right in his face. For new readers wondering why I’m following this case, it’s because I want justice. As I’ve maintained from the time I first read about this rape accusation, the woman lied and intentionally used her skin color to get back at the players for whatever reason and ignite a racial firestorm. It sickens me, and I refuse to “wait until all the evidence is revealed” because I already know Nifong has nothing on the men he arrested and charged. The inevitable discovery process will be revealing.
I laid out the scenario for what I think happened that night. Read it here.
Rape is a serious charge, and every woman who makes false claims casts doubt on the next woman who is actually raped. The race and class envy aspects of the case, combined with the accuser’s obvious credibility problem, prompts me to see this through to the end. When the whole truth is revealed, I want an accounting from Nifong, both strippers, Duke’s president, and each and every one of the race hustlers and radical feminists calling for the heads of “rich” white lacrosse players on a platter.
On Monday, there’s the grand jury. On Thursday, there’s a hearing. At that time, Nifong should drop the charges against Finnerty and Seligmann. But I predict that unless a judge rules otherwise, Nifong will hold on to his flimsy stinker of a case until after the general elections in November. There is no one running against him. Yet. As one commenter said, if Nifong reveals his losing hand too soon, a Republican candidate may rise to challenge him based on his apparent political motives in this case.
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According to ABC News, DNA collected from the accuser’s vaginal swab after she reported the rape matches her “boyfriend.” (I put the word in quotation marks because I don’t believe it represents the true nature of the relationship.)
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