Duke Rape Case. Charge: Partying while white and rich.

pettyfog · Dec 13, 2006

Congressman’s Request to DOJ: Investigate Mike Nifong

What’s happening in Durham is akin to what happened 75 years ago to the “Scottsboro Boys.” No matter how much hate e-mail I get, I’ll continue comparing the two cases.
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- Lashawn Barber

Absurd as it sounds, she's right.
Surely those who are charged with upholding the peace must adhere to the law. What Nifong did was out of bounds in almost every way imaginable.

Head of DNA lab says he and Nifong agreed not to report results

The head of a private DNA laboratory said under oath today that he and District Attorney Mike Nifong agreed not to report DNA results favorable to Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.

Brian Meehan, director of DNA Security of Burlington, said his lab found DNA from unidentified men in the underwear, pubic hair and rectum of the woman who said she was gang-raped at a lacrosse party in March. ... Meehan said the DNA did not come from Reade Seligmann, David Evans, or Collin Finnerty, who have been charged with rape and sexual assault in the case.

Meehan struggled to say why he didn’t include the favorable evidence in a report dated May 12, almost a month after Seligmann and Finnerty had been indicted. He cited concerns about the privacy of the lacrosse players, his discussions at several meetings with Nifong, and the fact that he didn’t know whose DNA it was.

Under questioning by Jim Cooney, a defense attorney for Seligmann, Meehan admitted that his report violated his laboratory’s standards by not reporting results of all tests.
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FFCinPCB · Dec 13, 2006

Now there's a thesis, on law, sociology, history,.......

pettyfog · Dec 16, 2006

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FFCinPCB said:

Now there's a thesis, on law, sociology, history,.......
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Ummm yes, but most of all, an affirmation of that we already know*.. or at least suspect.

Nifong and the Naïf
A background on the testimony on the DNA results:

Mike Nifong gambled and lost: confronting a defense motion strongly suggesting that DNA Security, for a reason or reasons unknown, had withheld obviously exculpatory evidence, he decided to produce, without notice, DNA Security head Brian Meehan for cross-examination. The advantage: he might catch the defense unprepared for questioning. The disadvantage: he obviously didn’t have time to prep Meehan.
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It appeared yesterday as if .. Meehan had never before faced a challenging cross-examination: over a 90-minute period, he withered under questioning from Brad Bannon and Jim Cooney.
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To the extent that he displayed any strategy at all, Meehan’s goal seemed to be to stall as much as possible, looking expectantly at Nifong (who was seen to be frequently yawning by those with a head-on view of him) after each question. Unfortunately, the judge, Osmond Smith, didn’t shut down the questioning, and Meehan was eventually forced to concede the obvious. So an appearance that should have lasted 10 minutes stretched into nearly two hours.

The most charitable interpretation of Meehan would see him as remarkably naïve, a scientist who didn’t realize that those doing work for law enforcement have to follow standard procedures, rather than making up their own rules. Those less inclined toward the charity of the season might suggest that Meehan willfully joined in a conspiracy with Mike Nifong to withhold exculpatory evidence, because he wanted business for his lab.
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So there we have it... in line with everything I've read or watched on this case, and you should know that MANY of the mentions dont go into any depth, as if the commenter is embarrassed to mention any of the details..

* Nifong is too stupid to be a prosecutor, he's actually too stupid to be a lawyer.. but he's NOT too stupid to be a politician. He won the election didnt he!

Why am I flashing on Ronnie Earle?
heh...

HatterDon · Dec 16, 2006

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pettyfog said:

Why am I flashing on Ronnie Earle?
heh...
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Because you either know nothing about Earle or you choose to ignore his history.

pettyfog · Dec 16, 2006

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What... extortion through allegation?

pettyfog · Dec 17, 2006

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