Wednesday, January 17: Post closed to commenting. Go fill up this one!
Saturday, January 13 (5:08 p.m.): Nifong is off the Duke case. Now others will have to clean up his mess…
Later on the radio…Oops. Don’t say “ejaculate” on the radio! 
Friday, January 12 @ 5:35 p.m.: Mike Nifong tries to slither away.
How many days will pass before all charges are dropped? Catch me on Tammy Bruce’s show tomorrow night around 6:15 9:15 p.m. EST.
Update II (1/12): DNA expert Brian Meehan, one of Mike Nifong’s co-conspirators, will appear on “60 Minutes” this Sunday at 8:00 p.m.
Later…I’m appearing on Tammy Bruce’s show tomorrow night around 6:15 p.m. EST to talk about this case.
Stunning Update (1/11 @ 1:43 p.m.): Whaaaa?? The stripper-accuser now claims Reade Seligmann “did not commit any sex acts on her” but he watched. Oh, honey, get on your knees…and ask God to forgive you for this web of lies. And for being a stripper…
As I wrote in an earlier post, unless they’d knocked me out cold, there’d be plenty of DNA evidence if three men tried to rape me, especially regarding a…certain “forced” act. The man’s blood…and tissue…would be all over me, all over the floor. The crime scene would look like something out a horror movie.
Yet, there was no DNA evidence linking Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, or David Evans to the “victim.” Didn’t she try to fight back?
A commenter in the ABC 11 TV forum says, “Also, have you visited La Shawn Barber’s blog? You remind me of her in your post. I like La Shawn but cannot stand the religious aspect and some of the right wing ideology.”
Well, it’s one big package. I’m glad you like the Duke posts, but the religious and “right wing” stuff are a part of this blog, too.
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CHECK. THIS. OUT. From today’s News & Observer (emphasis added):
“In her latest statement to investigators [from December 21], the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case changed her account again about when the alleged gang rape occurred, who attacked her and how…Defense attorneys filed the statement in court today, arguing that it was more evidence that the woman is an unreliable witness.
“The woman adjusted the timing of the assault to earlier in the evening, a time point preceding the well-documented alibi of one accused player, Reade Seligmann. The defense, however, introduced yet more alibi evidence for Seligmann: he was on the cell phone with his girlfriend during the height of the attack as the accuser now times it.”
Doh!
Get your gang-rape fantasy story straight, woman! Someone’s gonna think you’re lying about the whole thing. (Hat tip: Wizbang)
More thoughts later. Paying bills…
More Duke blogging: The Johnsville News, LieStoppers, Crystal Mess, Durham-in-Wonderland, John in Carolina…For more info, see the Duke Rape Case archives, 37 posts deep.
ABC links to latest defense motions.
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Many of those laws were passed with the help of the feminist movement.
REPLY: I Agree Tracey and I feel sorry for the many blacks who judged the case based solely on the evidence or lack thereof. Unfortunately they are drowned out by those who have an agenda such as the NAACP, Black Panthers and the rest of the Poverty Pimp Nation.
Speaking of crazy feminists have you had the pleasure to see that wacko Wendy Murphy? I’m so ashamed to share the last name as this woman. You could show this woman video proof that this case was a hoax and she would still find some crazy excuse to find the accuser as being credible. That nut deserves to be in a mental institution. She is still insisting that this story is somehow true and she is on the record as saying that she has never seen an accusation of rape the turned out to be false. In other words 100% of reported rape cases are true in her opinion. She is PURE EVIL!!!!
B Murph,
Yes, I know about Wendy Murphy. She has major issues. When she debates with people she tries to loud talk over them.
I have discussed the case with members of the “Poverty Pimp Nation” and they want these allegations to be true. How could you wish a rape on someone? I guess it’s an excuse to justify envy and hatred for Whites. I used to be a part of that thinking about 17-18 years ago. I finally saw the light and broke away from that thinking.
The NAACP is a fraud and a front for Democrats and socialists. Jesse is a corporate shakedown artist and he had to “offer” to pay for Crystal’s education no matter what!
I guarantee you that nothing will be done to punish Crystal. She’ll turn around and do it again later.
A few snips from the famous Martin Luther King, Jr. speech, “I Have a Dream”.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
And I have a dream, that one day Collin, Reade and David – who have been unjustly accused and persecuted by the black community – will one day not be judged by the color of THEIR skin but by the content of their character.
God bless Martin Luther King, Jr.
Arrggg….
Officially I can’t stand this anymore…
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1137618/
After a December hearing, Nifong insisted he did nothing wrong.
“There was no attempt to hide anything,” he said, adding that defense attorneys only had to ask for the evidence.
Nifong’s pretrial hearing regarding last month’s ethics complaint is next week. A trial is set for May.
And kempermanx and tatercon? You people are going to allow you NC State Bar to let this pass? A DA who plays ‘hide the evidence… all you have to know is that it exists and ask for it??????’
This man is certifiable? And so is the NC Bar if they let this pass.
RebPow,
In short NO. This man is going to get disbarred and he will go to jail.
The Fed’s will pick this up after the case is dismissed.
Mikey’s only real life changing decision is whether he wants to be the wife or the husband when he goes to Butner, the Fed prison in NC.
Here’s an idea let’s all send Mikey soap on a rope, cause he’s going to need it.
How cool would that be, Mikey gets a 100 soaps on a rope! Tick Tock the Clock is Ticking!!
Kemp
Kempermanx,
Thanks for your response. Classy as always.
Reb in Chicagoland
“The entire time I was in Chicago, I was treated like a POW” – Lewis Grizzard
Tracey,
I tried again, it won’t come up. I think my virus protection won’t let it come up. You should run a scan on your computer, Cash maybe sending you an unpleasant visitor. Viruses! Check it out, quickly, they spread like, nifongs.
Kemp
A couple of snips from Rush Limbaugh’s Web site on the Duke Lacrosse hoax, 1/15/06. Looks like Durham County is in big trouble:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_011507/content/truth_detector.guest.html
“’Although prosecutors generally enjoy absolute immunity from civil liability for violating the constitutional rights of defendants, there are instances — and this may well be one of them — where that immunity doesn’t apply,’ says Law Professor John Banzhaf. Moreover, Durham County, NC, does not have absolute immunity, and so the county could be held liable for millions of dollars in civil damages even if District Attorney Michael Nifong is protected from law suits, notes Banzhaf. ‘Generally, district attorneys — acting within their narrow role as prosecutors — have absolute immunity, and cannot be sued even if they violate a defendant’s constitutional rights intentionally, in bad faith, and with malice.†They are protected even though they might do all of that.
“’This means that, even if it can be proven that Nifong engaged in gross prosecutorial misconduct in prosecuting the students while knowing they were innocent, and did so wrongfully and only for political purposes, he might not be held civilly liable.’ On the other hand, the U.S. Supreme Court has carved out an exception when a prosecutor is acting not as an ‘advocate’ performing functions intimately connected with the judicial phase of the criminal proceeding, but rather as an ‘investigator’ or ‘administrator.’ In such cases he enjoys only a qualified immunity, and can be held liable if his misconduct violated clearly established legal standards of which a reasonable prosecutor would have known. … Even if Nifong is found to be shielded from civil liability by absolutely immunity, such immunity does not apply to the county which he represents, so Durham County, NC, could wind up being civilly liable even if Nifong escapes liability. Considering the emotional suffering — not to mention the legal and other out-of-pocket expenses — this criminal proceeding has subjected the defendants to, a jury could award a very significant verdict to compensate them.â€
Reb, be patient with the State Bar. I’m going to be stunned if any official word comes out of this week’s quarterly meeting of the Bar concerning Nifong’s latest, being those actions that came to light in the weeks running up to Christmas. There hasn’t been enough time in the grievance process for new charges to “go public” in just four or so weeks since the last court hearing and also the “first interview” revelations. Scroll back up to my bloviations at 31 and 39 above, where I kinda covered what kind of expectations I’m having about what and when things might unfold.
Also, glad to know from where your “nom de plume” is derived … a “Grizzardism”! I still think his best line regarding his time in Chicago, when he was a sportswriter, was his description of his level of interest in Big Ten football, particularly the Ohio State – Michigan game — to a southern bred boy like him, it was like “watchin’ two mules fight over a turnip; ya don’t really care which one of ‘em wins…” (paraphrased from memory) Methinks the Florida Gators showed the nation last week it really didn’t matter which one of ‘em won that big hoopla game back in November between the two mules — er, the Buckeyes and Wolverines….
TaterCon
aakash – Despite it’s very liberal bias, I was impressed to see how critical this evening’s 60 Minutes segment was, of Mike Nifong.
That is hardly surprising. Once liberals, multicultis, feminists, and/or black racists fail in a race card gambit, rather than want attention on failed ideology, they will look for a scapegoat.
Nifong’s head on a pike would then allow all the other parties in the early lynch mob to walk away. Watch it unfold. Gang of 88 members at Duke will be “shocked, just shocked!!”. Jesse will show up and pronounce a need “for healing, moving on, closure”. And of course more government money for helping poor black people like the victim, and more money for Duke to “increase diversity”.
Media will drop it after a bout of self-congratulation that they helped debunk the Hooax that they first hyped and enabled. Evil scuzz like Wendy Murphy and Nancy Grace will move on to the next case where they can disgrace their law degrees and affiliations with the Atlanta prosecutor’s office and the New England School of Law. Various community activists will rage and demand more guilty white’s attention and new “help programs”. Duke Admin will say everything is fine at Duke now that that bad ‘ol DA is gone. All will say the time has come to annoint with the PC sacrament of “KA-LOOZE-URE”.
Watch. It will unfold predictably.
TaterCon,
Actually Grizzard’s best line was “The only good thing to come out of Chicago was I-55 South”.
Being from Florida, working with a bunch of OSU and Michigan folk, it’s a very good thing that Florida won. Otherwise it would have been a long winter.
There have been so many outrages in this case, I’m not sure why Nifong’s line of “all they had to do was ask” sets me off so much. Between him and the FA, I’m beginning to believe that she might be the more mentally stable one of the two.
Reb, I agree with you. Nifong’s “all they had to do was ask” comment is the epitome of a sarcastic, wise ass response. It clearly displays arrogance, and contempt for the truth. It is the kind of answer one would expect from a smart ass teenager, who got caught doing something he should not have done. To me, it also makes it apparent that Nifong was aware that the information was being withheld.
It also is an failed attempt at distracting the public from the NC rule that the prosecutor must turn over ALL such evidence, without the defense asking for it.
So, we’re supposed to waste our time analyzing whether the defense asked for the evidence, and forget the fact that Nifong was required to provide it without being asked. What a well-practiced liar.
According to ABC news :
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=4939868
“The U.S. Attorney General’s office has responded to Congressman Walter Jones’ request for a federal probe of the Duke Lacrosse Case.
In a letter delivered Thursday, Alberto Gonzales’ office wrote that it would be, “Premature to initiate a federal investigation pending a criminal trial.”
This means the Attorney General will not be getting involved in the case at this time.”
Those of you who would like to make known your feelings about this response may do so at :
(If the DOJ gets no response, they will think that the public really doesn’t care enough to make this an issue) :
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov
Put : ATTN : AG GONZALES in the subject header
White House :
comments@whitehouse.gov
FBI field office in N. Carolina :
charlotte.public@ic.fbi.gov
Bar Buddy is off to Raleigh tomorrow. I’ll be out of town for two weeks, so I’ll have no scoop until Feb. Sorry. Assuming the Feb 5 hearing is still on, I plan to go. I would love to host a group at my son’s apt, assuming he is not having a super bowel party. I will let everyone know when I return on the 29th.
God Bless you all.
Kemp
Hey Kempermanx,
Have a safe trip.
Don’t invite any strippers to your hotel room
Kemp, I hope your son is not having a super bowel party, but if he is, I would advise you not to go!;)
Looks like the Duke Group of 88 is now the group of 87 and they are trying to clear up the “misunderstanding” of their original ad. BTB!!!! Blame The Blogs. I for one am not buying their spew. These intellectuals seem to feel that most of us are stupid. We are not. Remember BTB!!!!! Blame the Blogs!!!!
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/533242.html
In addition to sending a subpoena to the AV, the defense has now sent more subpoenas :
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/533272.html
Defense lawyers last week sent subpoenas to Durham police investigators who collected evidence. The subpoenas, signed Jan. 5 by an attorney for Finnerty, were filed in the Office of the Clerk of Durham County Superior Court on Tuesday. The subpoenas require investigators Richard Clayton, Mark Gottlieb, Benjamin Himan and Michele Soucie to be available to testify during the Feb. 5 hearing.
Belle,
BROADhead probably asked them to comment on the open letter, which originated from the African & African American Studies department after the BOGUS rape occurred, to tone down the heat on Duke University. Now everyone realizes they could be sued (i.e., Kim Curtis) for rushing to judgment and fanning the racial fires. But they’ve made their bed – and being the idiots that they are – insist on laying in it. Duke U is screwed…
STAY TUNED for a post about that new “Group of 88″ letter. It got me fired up, and my fingers can’t type fast enough…
Rebelpow,
I am taking my wife! I have thought of lots more response to add, but I better not start. She might hear about them. Thanks all.
Kemp
Belle,
Son is student leader, so he would not dare do ANYTHING during rush. Actually he’s a VERY straight up Christan, so I don’t worry about him.
I just don’t understand how he is so smart, we clearly picked up the wrong kid at the hospital.
Kemp
Question of the Day!!
Now that the Libs have a new scapegoat (The Blogs) will they continue to blame their old scapegoat (The Jews) for all that is wrong with the world? My vote is Yes! They have enough blame to go around.
Kemp, he sounds like a great kid!
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