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Have you noticed that each bit of information that leaks out about the Duke “rape” case is favorable to the defense?
There are many possible explanations. For example, if the defense is leaking info, they’ll leak only that which is favorable to their clients.
Or the DA’s office may have a strong case but is duty-bound not to leak information harmful or helpful to the defense.
Another explanation occurred to me: David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann didn’t rape the stripper.
Apparently, this possibility never occurred to DA Mike Nifong. That DNA tests failed to conclusively link any of the 46 players to the stripper-accuser meant little to the crack DA. Before the results, he was confident there would be a match. Upon learning there was no match, he backtracked from his earlier statements and said that “75 percent to 80 percent” of rape prosecutions lack DNA evidence. That DNA evidence recovered from the stripper-accuser’s rape kit exam belonged to her “boyfriend” and not to any of the three indicted men didn’t shake Nifong’s faith, either. That the stripper-accuser told the investigators, police, nurse, and doctor different versions of the story (which Nifong had access to) didn’t trouble his peaceful mind.
Today we learn that the stripper-accuser or someone else used her cell phone to call her escort service at 12:26 a.m., around the time she was being “raped.”
Robert KC Johnson asks: “The rape allegedly lasted 30 minutes (12.05-12.35). And yet Precious is on the phone during that period? And Nifong never bothered to check this before making arrests?”
My guess? No one in the house raped the stripper that night. She was probably locked in the bathroom alone or with the second stripper between 12:05 a.m. and 12:35 a.m., as the lacrosse players said. While in the bathroom, the stripper called her escort service for whatever reason, then stumbled out of the house.
Of course, Nifong will continue with his case. Even if a videotape surfaced showing the stripper-accuser sitting in the bathroom alone during the supposed attack, Nifong would still go forward with this case.
It’s now a crusade, of sorts. He’s determined to use the power of his office to show the world he’s not a shameless, bumbling, race-pandering fool (by trying and winning the case — God help the defendants if Nifong gets a jury like O.J. Simpson’s), and he’s willing to expend as many tax dollars and reputations as necessary to achieve his foul goal.
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Addendum: A reader notes that the stripper-accuser worked for Bunnyhole Entertainment but called Centerfold Escorts at 12:26 a.m., which may suggest she was looking for another gig for the night/morning. The reader also said that according to a police statement attached to a June 8 Motion to Suppress (PDF), the police contacted Angel’s Escort Service to check out the stripper-accuser’s story.
Now, I don’t know anything about the escort “industry,” but I suspect one business may operate under different names. True? If not, that means the stripper worked for several escort services. And let’s dispense with the “escort” euphemism. The stripper worked for prostitution “businesses” in a prostitute capacity. There, I said it.
