Rice University 1978-1982. We did not have strippers. But we did have a "dorm" party called Night of Decadence, where everybody went in their underwear or a toga We did have drinking out the wazoo. But 18 was the legal age back then. BTW the way you make it sound is that universities are pimping strippers as a campus past time in their mailers they send out to prospective high schoolers.
I was thinking the same thing...If they're guilty, fry em, but if not, can you un-cancel the season and reinstate the coach? The court of public opinion is always tough...
Duke Accuser Has Child DURHAM, N.C. - Lawyers for three Duke lacrosse players charged with rape will ask for paternity testing to determine if any of their clients fathered the accuser's child — a prospect the attorneys dismissed Friday as an "absolute impossibility." News of the accuser's pregnancy comes roughly nine months after the team party where she says she was raped by three men. Defense attorney Joseph Cheshire said Friday the defense has known for some time about the pregnancy. Fox News and WRAL-TV in Raleigh reported the woman gave birth Thursday night. "We've also heard that she didn't," Cheshire said. A person familiar with the case, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the pregnancy late Thursday but had no information about the father. During a break Friday in a procedural hearing, District Attorney Mike Nifong would not comment about the pregnancy and declined to answer questions about potential paternity testing. Early testimony at the hearing focused on a defense request for more information about DNA testing conducted for the prosecution. Defense attorneys have stressed for months that no sex occurred at the party and they have cited DNA testing that found genetic material from several males in the accuser's body and her underwear — but none from any member of the lacrosse team. The woman has said the three men raped her in a bathroom at a March 13 team party where she had been hired to perform as a stripper. Medical records included in a defense motion filed Thursday were not made public, but Cheshire said the woman was given a pregnancy test immediately after reporting she was raped — and it was negative — and she took an emergency contraceptive. "The possibility of her having gotten pregnant (from) these alleged incidents is an impossibility ... an absolute impossibility," Cheshire said. Cheshire spoke shortly before a previously scheduled hearing in the case. The defense motion claims the woman misidentified her alleged attackers in a photo lineup that was "an incoherent mass of contradiction and error." Defense lawyers argue that the key lineup, conducted April 4 at the Durham Police Department, violated departmental policies and the defendants' due process rights because it included only pictures of lacrosse players. Based in part on those identifications, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans were indicted on charges of rape, kidnapping and sexual offense. All three players have insisted they are innocent and were in court for the hearing Friday. The defense attorneys asked a judge to bar prosecutors from using the photo lineup at their clients' trial and prevent the accuser from identifying the players from the witness stand. There had been no prior indication the woman, a 28-year-old college student who has other children, was pregnant. She has not spoken in public since granting a single interview to the News & Observer of Raleigh shortly after the party.
"Professional misconduct" does not even begin to describe how Mike Nifong has handled this case. If there was justice in the world, he'd end up in jail after this is finished. Nifong & the City of Durham are going to get their asses sued off.
No kidding. Once the "lineup" gets dismissed it will be a domino effect of everything else falling apart and culminating in Nifong being reviewed by the bar.
How is this case still going? The accuser had semen from several different males in her, but none being from anybody on the Lacrosse team. How does this human sperm dispenser have any credibility?
District Attorney Mike Nifong told a judge during today's Duke lacrosse case hearing that he was unaware of DNA that did not match the accused lacrosse players until this week http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/521773.html You've got to be kidding. How he's retained his job to this point is astounding. The reactionary and vicisous media assault on the Duke Lax team was also appalling to me. The Charlotte News&Observer printed at least a half dozen editorials slaughtering those guys ("You did it and we know you did it, you bastards") as if they were caught red-handed in the act. National media including ESPN had no problem digging dirt on members of the team in April, then all of a sudden dropped the news coverage when the DNA evidence didn't match and the accuser needed "help" identifying the guys. Ridiculous and sad. Evan
That is total BS. I recall he commented on the DNA findings right after they came out. This guy needs to be throw in jail.
UPDATE: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246281,00.html For the record, I still think something wrong happened at the party and that the stripper was indeed a victim.
Very true, I think she might have been made to strip and dance naked in front of some college students.
