DNA Tests Complete in Duke Gang Rape Case NO DNA was found possible HOAX...

[American_Jihad]

DNA Tests Complete in Duke Gang Rape Case

DURHAM, N.C. — The state crime lab has completed DNA testing of members of Duke University's lacrosse team, sending the results to police and prosecutors investigating allegations a stripper was raped at a party, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general said Monday.

Noelle Talley would not release the results. Similarly, Candy Clark, an assistant to District Attorney Mike Nifong, said the prosecutor would not comment on the findings. She said copies were being made for defense attorneys.

"If the defense releases them, that's up to them," Clark said. "If charges are going to be pending, he can't be discussing them."

The players and their defense have been saying the DNA tests would show there was no rape or sex at the March 13 party.

Around midafternoon, several of the attorneys representing the players said they had yet to receive the results.

The alleged victim, a 27-year-old student at nearby North Carolina Central University, told police she and another woman were hired to dance at the party. The woman told police that three men at the party dragged her into a bathroom, choked her, raped her and sodomized her.

Authorities ordered 46 of the 47 players on Duke's lacrosse team to submit DNA samples to investigators. Because the woman said her attackers were white, the team's sole black player was not tested.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191232,00.html

04/10/06 5:45pm NO DNA was found possible HOAX...

[Alli]

If it is a hoax, she should be arrested, and pay restitution to the entire team.

[NYer]

This case reminds me of this fiasco. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley)

[Bman]

If it is a hoax, she should be arrested, and pay restitution to the entire team.


That would be interesting... since no one has actually been charged or arrested.

I wonder how that would play out..

The team might have more of a case against the school, since they're the ones that cancelled their season, based on the allegations.


In any case, it sounds like this was a bunch of bullshit.

[Ono]

This case reminds me of this fiasco. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley)

Ha ha...I was just going to post that.

[American_Jihad]

Duke supporters team up

DURHAM, N.C. // A small group of boosters and others close to the Duke University lacrosse team have hired President Clinton's former lawyer as part of an aggressive public relations effort to argue that the players did not rape a woman at an off-campus party.

Bob Bennett, a former federal prosecutor and Washington attorney who represented Clinton in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case, is serving as a spokesman for a group calling itself the Committee for Fairness to Duke Families.

He is not expected to represent any players, but he has joined the chorus of those who fear for the reputation of the team and the university.

"It is unfortunate that members of the Duke community, players and families are being judged before all the facts are in," Bennett said in a statement. "A lot of innocent young people and the families are being hurt, and unfortunately this situation is being abused by people with separate agendas. It is grossly unfair, and cool heads must prevail."

The group has asked to meet with Duke President Richard Brodhead. Neither Brodhead nor Bennett returned calls seeking comment.

No charges have been filed while District Attorney Mike Nifong presses on with his investigation of allegations that a stripper was gang-raped at a team party March 13. Earlier this week, lawyers for the players said that DNA tests failed to connect any members of the 47-man team to the alleged attack.

The players' parents - initially silent - have also started to speak out.

Brian Loftus, who has two sons on the team, wondered yesterday why Nifong was continuing to press ahead with the case.

"I don't understand it," said Loftus, of Syosset, N.Y.

Nifong has refused requests for an interview. He is running for another term in May and took part in a candidate forum last night, in which he reiterated that he believes a medical exam of the alleged victim indicates a crime occurred.

"The fact is, I didn't pick the crime. I didn't pick the time," Nifong said at the forum. "But I'm going to do the case right."

The family of Devon Sherwood, a freshman goalie and the team's only black member, said the DNA results should have marked the end of the investigation of the highly ranked team. The Blue Devils played for last year's national title and were considered a favorite this season before Duke canceled the season.

"I'm just glad that that ordeal is over with and hopefully as we progress with the case, it will show that all of the players will be exonerated ... of any wrongdoing at all," said Sherwood's father, Chuck, of Freeport, N.Y.

Devon Sherwood was not tested because he is black, and the alleged victim, a black woman, had said her attackers were white.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/college/lacrosse/bal-sp.duke13apr13,0,4416559.story?coll=bal-college-lacrosse

[American_Jihad]

2nd Duke Stripper Didn't See Alleged Rape


DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - At first, a stripper who performed at a Duke University lacrosse team party doubted the story of a colleague who told police she was dragged into a bathroom and raped. Now, Kim Roberts isn't so sure.

"I was not in the bathroom when it happened, so I can't say a rape occurred - and I never will," Roberts told The Associated Press on Thursday in her first on-the-record interview. But after watching defense attorneys release photos of the accuser, and upset by the leaking of both dancers' criminal pasts, she said she has to "wonder about their character."

"In all honesty, I think they're guilty," she said. "And I can't say which ones are guilty ... but somebody did something besides underage drinking. That's my honest-to-God impression."

Attorneys for the 46 players have aggressively proclaimed the players' innocence, citing DNA tests during a public campaign that has included describing and releasing photos from the party.

Those photos, the defense maintains, show the accuser was both injured and impaired when she arrived, and also support the claim that one of the two players who has been indicted would not have had enough time to participate in any assault before he left the party. The district attorney has said he also hopes to charge a third suspect in the case.

The attorneys claim Roberts at first told a member of the defense team that she did not believe the accuser's allegations. They say she has changed her story to gain favorable treatment in a criminal case against her. They note she also e-mailed a New York public relations firm, asking in her letter for advice on "how to spin this to my advantage."

"We believe ... her story has been motivated by her own self-interest," said attorney Bill Thomas, who represents one of the uncharged players. "I think that a jury will ultimately have to decide the question of her credibility."

Roberts, 31, was arrested on March 22 - eight days after the party - on a probation violation from a 2001 conviction for embezzling $25,000 from a photofinishing company in Durham where she was a payroll specialist, according to documents obtained by the AP.

On Monday, the same day a grand jury indicted lacrosse players Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty, a judge agreed to a change so that Roberts would no longer have to pay a 15 percent fee to a bonding agent. District Attorney Mike Nifong signed a document saying he would not oppose the change.

"It seems she is receiving very favorable financial treatment for what she is now saying," Thomas said.

Mark Simeon, Roberts' attorney, said the bond conditions were changed because Roberts is not considered a flight risk. Nifong, who hasn't spoken with reporters about the case in weeks, didn't return a call seeking comment.

Roberts' testimony could be vital during any trial of the two sophomores, indicted on charges of first-degree rape, sexual offense and kidnapping.

Other than lacrosse players and the accuser, a 27-year-old student at a nearby university, Roberts is believed to be the only other person at the March 13 party.

Roberts said Thursday she does not remember Seligmann's face, but said she recalls seeing Finnerty - whom she described as the "little skinny one."

"I was looking him right in the eyes," she said.

Although she would not talk extensively about the party, she confirmed some of what the other dancer told police - including that the women initially left the party after one of the players threatened to sodomize the women with a broomstick.

The players' attorneys have said their clients were angry and demanded a refund when the women stopped dancing, but Roberts disputed that.

"They ripped themselves off when they started hollering about a broomstick," she said.

The accuser told police that the women were coaxed back into the house with an apology, at which point they were separated. That's when she said she was dragged into a bathroom and raped, beaten and choked for a half hour.

Later, police received a 911 call from a woman complaining that she had been called racial slurs by white men gathered outside the home where the party took place. Roberts acknowledged that she made the call because she was angry.

Roberts drove herself to the party and said she could have left anytime, but she said, "I didn't want to leave her with them."

Roberts then drove the accuser - whom she had just met that night - to a grocery store and asked a security guard to call 911. The accuser was described later by a police officer as "just passed-out drunk."

Roberts said the woman was sober when they arrived at the house. But by the time the party was over, she said the accuser was too incoherent to tell her where she lived, let alone that she had been raped.

"I didn't do enough," she said, tears welling in her eyes. "I didn't do enough. I didn't do enough."

The defense timeline is backed up by a cab driver who said Seligmann called for a ride at 12:14 a.m., and was picked up five minutes later. The defense argues that if the dancers were performing around midnight, Seligmann would not have had enough time to participate in the 30-minute assault described by the accuser.

The cabbie, Moez Mostafa, also said he saw a woman leaving the party in anger, and overheard someone say, "She just a stripper. She's going to call the police."

"She looked, like, mad," he said of the woman. "In her face, the way she walked, the way she talked, she looked like mad."

On Thursday, authorities released warrants detailing their search earlier this week of Finnerty's and Seligmann's dorm rooms. Police took a newspaper article and an envelope addressed to Finnerty from his room, and an iPod, various accessories, computer manuals, photos and a CD from Seligmann's room.

Also Thursday, 5W Public Relations, a New York firm that specializes in "crisis communication," distributed an e-mail signed "The 2nd Dancer," and Roberts confirmed she sent it after learning the AP knew her identity.

"I've found myself in the center of one of the biggest stories in the country," she wrote. "I'm worried about letting this opportunity pass me by without making the best of it and was wondering if you had any advice as to how to spin this to my advantage."

Ronn Torossian, 5W's president, said he replied, but got no response.

"If this person is indeed who they say they are, I would be happy to speak with her," said Torossian, whose firm has represented the likes of Sean "Diddy" Combs, Ice Cube and Lil' Kim.

Roberts, like the accuser a divorced single mother who is black, took umbrage at the notion that she should not try to make something out of her experience. She's worried that once her name and criminal record are public, no one will want to hire her.

"Why shouldn't I profit from it?" she asked. "I didn't ask to be in this position ... I would like to feed my daughter."

Roberts said she knows what it's like to sit in jail, and that she would never wrongly accuse an innocent person.

"If the boys are innocent, sorry fellas," she said. "Sorry you had to go through this."

But unlike her and the other dancer, she said, they have money to hire the best attorneys.

"If they're innocent, they will not go to jail," she said. But, she added, "If the truth is on their side, why are they supporting it with so many lies?"

Roberts is bracing for an all-out attack, but said she's almost past caring.

"Don't forget that they called me a damn nigger," she said. "She (the accuser) was passed out in the car. She doesn't know what she was called. I was called that. I can never forget that."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060421/D8H4D98O1.html

[American_Jihad]

Black nationalists provide security for rape accuser
Apr 27, 2006

DURHAM -- An official with the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense said the black nationalist organization is providing security for the woman who has accused Duke lacrosse players of raping her.

And the organization is distributing recruitment brochures with information about a rally planned near the Duke campus for Monday. The brochures ask, "Had enough of disrespect and racism from Duke University?" The materials contain photographs of Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, the two white lacrosse players indicted and charged with raping a black exotic dancer at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. the night of March 13-14.

"We'll do the escort and the security, going to court, whatever it takes" to protect the accuser from threats allegedly being made against her, said Minister Na'jee Shaka Muhammad, national field marshal with the New Black Panther Party who is based out of Atlanta but working in Durham with the dancer and her family.

"The sister had death threats," he alleged. "The sister was afraid, she was talking about dropping the charges, she had no protection or security."

The accuser's father said he spoke with his daughter Tuesday night but that she made no mention of threats or fearing for her life. He has been speaking with her regularly and says she is in good mental health.

He said that while he knows she has been staying in a variety of locations, he does not know if it's because she has received threats. He added that he had been worried for his daughter's safety but no longer thinks it's an issue.

The father has also given apparently conflicting statements to different news organizations about whether his daughter is willing to testify.

He told Fox News she is having doubts about taking the stand. "Not right now, I don't think she would," the accuser's father said. "She wouldn't want to."

According to ESPN, he told MSNBC that while "she has talked about" wanting to drop the case because "she couldn't take it," she has decided at least for now to go forward.

But the father told The Herald-Sun on Wednesday evening that he hasn't discussed with his daughter whether she is willing to testify.

Meanwhile, District Attorney Mike Nifong told Fox News that he wouldn't have a case without the accuser's testimony.

"Realistically there's no way anybody can try a rape case without a victim. I mean, it's just not likely to happen that way," Nifong said. "But I don't anticipate that that's going to be the issue. I anticipate that the victim will be there."

The New Black Panther Party rally and news conference is being planned for Monday morning in front of an entrance to Duke at Chapel Drive and Duke University Road. Attorney Malik Zulu Shabazz, the group's national chairman and the national spokesman of Black Lawyers for Justice, will be the keynote speaker.

Muhammad said plans are for the demonstration to include a march past the lacrosse practice fields and the house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
Attempts to contact John Burness, Duke senior vice president for public affairs and government relations, for comment were not successful.

Shabazz also will be making remarks at a black town hall meeting at St. Joseph's AME Church, 2521 Fayetteville St., at 6 p.m. Monday, according to Bruce Bridges, owner of The Know bookstore nearby.

Bridges will be a panelist at the evening meeting. Other scheduled participants on the panel are N.C. Central University student leaders, representatives of the Nation of Islam and NAACP, and the Rev. Philip Cousin, the host pastor and a Durham County Commissioner.

Founded in 1989 in Dallas, the New Black Panther Party for Self Defense has chapters across the U.S. It preaches self-determination for a black nation through revolutionary changes. Among other tenets of the organization are calls to free all incarcerated black people, exempting blacks from military service, education that "exposes the true nature of this devilish and decadent American society," and demands for trials by a jury of black peers.

The organization has been assailed by the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation in an open letter on the foundation's Web site. Newton was the founder of the Black Panther Party that was active in the 1960s civil rights struggles. The organization Newton founded has no connection to the New Black Panther Party.

The Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., which tracks hate groups across the country, lists the New Black Panther Party as a racist, black separatist organization.

In other lacrosse case developments, May 15 is evolving as a potentially pivotal day. That is Nifong's next opportunity to take the name of a third assailant to a grand jury for indictment. Although there's also a grand jury meeting Monday, Nifong faces a Democratic primary on Tuesday and has said he wouldn't seek and indictment the day before because it would appear to be politically motivated.

May 15 is also the day that a second round of DNA tests is expected back from a private laboratory. It is also the date for the next scheduled preliminary court hearing in the case.

"There will be an interesting confluence of events on the 15th," Nifong said.

Also Wednesday, attorney sources said the accuser was only 90 percent sure about her identification of one of three men she said attacked her, and she tripped up over a mustache.

Looking at a photo lineup, the dancer told police the man in question "looks just like him without the mustache," the lawyers said, citing a written investigative report.

But the alleged third rapist had no mustache on the relevant night, if he ever had one, according to attorneys. They said photographs and eyewitnesses would prove their point.

http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-728827.html

[Ono]

News now, is that she's done this before, in 1993.

[American_Jihad]

Watch the KKK or the Nazi's show up to
counter the Black Panther's.

[shadow_wolf]

All of this sounds too much like the Tawana Brawley case.

Where's Al Sharpton when you need him!!

http://www.slate.com/id/2087557/

[American_Jihad]

All of this sounds too much like the Tawana Brawley case.

Where's Al Sharpton when you need him!!

http://www.slate.com/id/2087557/
He's got time yet, might be next spring before trial.

[Bman]

Rape charges dropped in Duke case

By AARON BEARD, Associated Press Writer
19 minutes ago



Prosecutors dropped rape charges Friday against three Duke University lacrosse players accused of attacking a stripper at a team party, but the three still face kidnapping and sexual offense charges, a defense attorney said.

Joseph Cheshire and attorneys for the other players have said for months the woman told several different versions of the alleged assault.

Cheshire said Friday that the accuser now says she does not know if she was penetrated, which he said led District Attorney Mike Nifong to dismiss the rape charges.

Nifong did not immediately return calls seeking comment.

The accuser, a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University, has said three men raped her in a bathroom at a March 13 team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper.

The players — Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann — all say they are innocent. Their attorneys have consistently said no sex occurred at the party and have cited a lack of DNA evidence in the case as proof of their clients' innocence.

"It's highly coincidental," Cheshire said, that the charges are being dropped a week after the director of a private DNA testing lab acknowledged that he initially, with Nifong's knowledge, withheld from the defense test results showing none of the players' DNA was found on or in the accuser's body.

Testing also showed that genetic material from several males was found in her undergarments and body.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061222/ap_on_re_us/duke_lacrosse&printer=1

[American_Jihad]

DNA Tests Complete in Duke Gang Rape Case

DURHAM, N.C. — The state crime lab has completed DNA testing of members of Duke University's lacrosse team, sending the results to police and prosecutors investigating allegations a stripper was raped at a party, a spokeswoman for the state attorney general said Monday.

Noelle Talley would not release the results. Similarly, Candy Clark, an assistant to District Attorney Mike Nifong, said the prosecutor would not comment on the findings. She said copies were being made for defense attorneys.

"If the defense releases them, that's up to them," Clark said. "If charges are going to be pending, he can't be discussing them."

The players and their defense have been saying the DNA tests would show there was no rape or sex at the March 13 party.

Around midafternoon, several of the attorneys representing the players said they had yet to receive the results.

The alleged victim, a 27-year-old student at nearby North Carolina Central University, told police she and another woman were hired to dance at the party. The woman told police that three men at the party dragged her into a bathroom, choked her, raped her and sodomized her.

Authorities ordered 46 of the 47 players on Duke's lacrosse team to submit DNA samples to investigators. Because the woman said her attackers were white, the team's sole black player was not tested.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191232,00.html

04/10/06 5:45pm NO DNA was found possible HOAX...

I thought so, just like GLOBAL WARMING............lol :happy_11:

[Alli]

If it is a hoax, she should be arrested, and pay restitution to the entire team.

I still stand by this, even though it won't happen. Remember the entire team sufferd because of this as well.

[American_Jihad]

Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Mangum's boyfriend dies after stabbing, she could face murder charges
4/14/11

(CBS/WRAL/AP) DURHAM, N.C. - Family members of the boyfriend of Crystal Mangum, who was stabbed in his home last week, say he died Wednesday evening.


Mangum, the Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape in 2006, was previously charged with assaulting the victim, Reginald Daye.


According to CBS affiliate WRAL, Durham police confirmed Thursday morning that Daye, 46, had died.


"The case remains under investigation, and we do anticipate upgrading the charges. However, no new charges have been filed at this time," police spokeswoman Kammie Michael said in an e-mail to the station.


Police said Mangum, 32, stabbed Daye in the torso with a kitchen knife during a dispute on April 3.


Daye was taken to Duke University Hospital, and Mangum was arrested in a nearby apartment.


According to WRAL, a man who said he was Daye's nephew called 911 to report the stabbing, saying it occurred while Daye and his girlfriend were arguing about rent money. The caller said police came to the apartment complex earlier while the couple argued, but the stabbing occurred after the officers left.

More:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20053911-504083.html