Above is from the story linked on the previous post…I love how they can decide to press charges based on a completely baseless arrest.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/college/lacrosse/2006-07-11-finnerty_x.htm?POE=SPOISVA

I see that the three players are also charged with “kidnapping”.

I wonder what Nifong’s transportation of the AV around the state, and across state lines, might be called?

I can get there by typing that (second) URL into my browser; but not from the link.

LaShawn? (help!)

No clue. I get a “Can’t find server” error message. – Admin

Later…I went to the main page, found the one you linked to, and copied and pasted the URL into your previous comment, and deleted the original. Seems to be working now. – Admin

Kim (the second dancer) appears to have received a suspended sentence for something. Strange, however, that there is no record of her having been before a judge lately. So either she went in secret before a judge or something else unsual took place.

Was there a secret hearing? Is that legal? Part of a deal?

Note : the players’ dates of hearings are not kept secret–even though there are threats against them.

You can check the details at URL:
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Choose “Durham County” and also chose “Both”

Enter the defedant’s last name (if you include the first name, type the last name and add a coma BUT LEAVE NO SPACE and then the first name)

http://www.wral.com/news/9482602/detail.html

LINK

“The comparison of what happened with (Tawana) Brawley and what has occurred in Durham is instructive, only in that it tells us that players in the press and in the “justice” system have learned nothing in the past 18 years.

(snip)

“If the legal nightmare for Seligmann, Finnerty, and Evans really does end, it will not be because “the system works.” It will be because bloggers, attorneys and a few heroic journalists made sure that the “legal” system did not work. We can only hope that Tawana Brawley II ends as did Tawana Brawley I: that despite the best efforts of the lying state “justice” apparatus, the truth was exposed anyway.”

How can any sane, reality-connected individual take a group like that seriously? Their drivel just oozes down off the screen into a fetid little puddle below the monitor….

http://onecommunityofmany.blogspot.com/

UBUNTU

(note : there is actually a rather nice linux distribution called “Ubuntu”–no relation to this group, though. . .)

“UBUNTU was born in the aftermath of the March 13, 2006 rape of a Durham, NC Black woman by members of the Duke University Lacrosse team.
(note : this statement may be actionable, as there is no legal determination that there was actually a rape as yet.)

“UBUNTU is a Women of Color and Survivor-led coalition of individuals and organizational representatives. . . We are Women, Men, and people who do not fit into the gender binary. We are non-trans and trans. We are People of Color, Multi-racial, and White. We come from throughout the Triangle area (i.e. Raliegh Durham) and have roots both within and outside of the United States. We are sex workers, students and community members. We are workers. We are Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, and Questioning. We are Queer and Straight. . .

“Sexual violence occurs in a culture sick with white supremacy and racism; heterosexism and homophobia; patriarchy, sexism, and transphobia; and poverty and capitalism.”

(AFAIK, if Federal grant money does come to this organization, it will be the only Federal response thus far to events in Durham.)