Alleged Rape of NCCU Student: (Duke Scandal)

[Gods Ivy]

Originally posted by Peaches-n-Cream
I have heard a lot about Tawana Brawley. If you are interested in reading about that case, click here. You can also google search her for more info.

Wow that was deep. What do you think really happend? It seems if she was trying to frame someone why would she leave everything near the apartment? That seems planted to me.

[Gods Ivy]

Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
Its hard to say until I see the photos and hear what the explainantion is. It could be anything......Maybe her "boss" (and I use that losely) beat her up for leaving that party earlier - maybe she was drunk/high in order to go through with it and could barely walk or stand. I don't know...

I have to see/read more but I do think depending upon when and where these pics took pplace, it can very negatively impact her story.

Wow I didn't think about that. That makes sense. They should be able to tell how old the wounds were with forensics’ information and trace the time approxiately that the photo was taken by what was in the background, the light, etc.

[LIL'JUICEY]

i was just watching the news last night and the investigators in the NCCU/Duke case have discovered that the girl's bruises occurred prior to the alleged incident...

[Gods Ivy]

Originally posted by LIL'JUICEY
i was just watching the news last night and the investigators in the NCCU/Duke case have discovered that the girl's bruises occurred prior to the alleged incident...

Some of the bruises occurred prior to not all of them. Its in the article given above. I think there was a great point made that she could have been forced to go back into the house to make the money, there for self medicated herself to do it. Nonetheless, it looks bad for her case.

[Gods Ivy]

Updated information given in this article.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...tory?track=rss

[PerfectVerse06]

Lawyer: No DNA Match in Duke Gang Rape Case
Monday, April 10, 2006


DURHAM, N.C. — There is no DNA match between members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team and an exotic dancer who told police she was raped at a team party, attorneys for the team said Monday.

"No DNA material from any young man was present on the body of this complaining woman," said Raleigh attorney Wade Smith.

Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said the test results prove their clients did not sexually assault and beat a stripper hired to perform at a March 13 team party.

No charged have been filed in the case. 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.

District Attorney Mike Nifong stopped speaking with reporters last week after initially talking openly about the case, including stating publicly that he was confident a crime occurred. He went on to say he will have other evidence to make his case should the DNA analysis prove inconclusive or fail to match a member of the team.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191232,00.html

[Rain Man]

I refrained from posting here sooner because I wanted to give the "victim" as much benefit of a doubt as circumstances could muster, but seeing how much evidence has been being presented making the "victim" more suspect then the actual suspects themselves, my worst fears are slowly but surely being confirmed:

This chick got the bruises and injuries by some other means and conveniently decided to make the Duke lacrosse team the scapegoats. Reminds me of the novel/TV movie "Blood and Orchids".

Gosh-dangit, I am so sick and tired of reading news stories of women who claimed they have been raped, but it turned out to be an intentional perpetrated lie by the victim to either save face with their "reputation" or out of pure spite for one or more individuals. It has truly shocked me to see how many men have been falsely imprisoned and/or exonerated stemming from rape charges due to DNA evidence and/or confession from a key witness/victim because the "victim" had a f[rea]kin' axe to grind with someone and didn't give two snots who's lives they ruined in the process.

Sheesh, this is as bad as the days of slavery--the whole black man/white woman rape accusations.

If this chick is confirmed to be lying, I hope they put that lying, no good skank so far under the goshdang jail she won't remember her own name.

Tip: rent the movie "Pretty Persuasions" and you will see a prime example of how lies like this can go down.

[ladylike]

Originally posted by Rain Man
Just as I suspected--this chick most likely made the whole thing up

Originally posted by Rain Man
I refrained from posting here sooner because I wanted to give the "victim" as much benefit of a doubt as circumstances could muster...

Uh-huh.

[Paradise359]

Originally posted by PerfectVerse06
Lawyer: No DNA Match in Duke Gang Rape Case
Monday, April 10, 2006


DURHAM, N.C. — There is no DNA match between members of Duke University's men's lacrosse team and an exotic dancer who told police she was raped at a team party, attorneys for the team said Monday.

"No DNA material from any young man was present on the body of this complaining woman," said Raleigh attorney Wade Smith.

Citing DNA test results delivered by the state crime lab to police and prosecutors a few hours earlier, the attorneys said the test results prove their clients did not sexually assault and beat a stripper hired to perform at a March 13 team party.

No charged have been filed in the case. 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.

District Attorney Mike Nifong stopped speaking with reporters last week after initially talking openly about the case, including stating publicly that he was confident a crime occurred. He went on to say he will have other evidence to make his case should the DNA analysis prove inconclusive or fail to match a member of the team.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,191232,00.html

This still doesn't prove that nothing happened. They could have used condoms. The results of her medical exam (rape exam) have not be released if I am correct. So it's not as open & shut as it appears.

[PerfectVerse06]

"No DNA material from any young man was present on the body of this complaining woman," said Raleigh attorney Wade Smith.

I don't like the way she was referred to as a "complaining woman".

Man I sincerely hope that she isn't lying...rape is a SERIOUS charge and that's something no one should be falsely accused of. All of this caused racial tension on that campus, all of those people holding rallies in her defense, man I hope it wasn't for nothing

[Steeltrap]

Originally posted by PerfectVerse06
I don't like the way she was referred to as a "complaining woman".

For some reason (and GC lawyers, correct me), it sounds like some sort of legal/criminal justice terminology, not a slam on her character.

[PerfectVerse06]

I thought that might've been it after I posted, but it bothered me for some reason regardless.

Kind of like calling the Katrina victims "refugees" bothered many of us.

[Lady of Pearl]

I've only had a little bit of law school one semester LOL but that term "complaining woman" didn't bode too well with me either, as if it doesn't legitamize her allegation somehow. DNA is not conclusive, and can be shown in most criminal cases to be in error, besides I would have had the evidence tested elsewhere in another state-smacks too much of privileged money tampering with the evidence and buying off folks in that town!

[Honeykiss1974]

I wonder why this woman would lie? What does she have to "save face" on? Regardless if she would have accused the Duke LaCrosse team of rape or Jim Bob, the manager of the local Piggly Wiggly, the mere fact that she is a stripper/escort would immediately errase any innocense. As much as we all may not want to admit it, her occupation will shed a negative light on her. I'm sure she knew this herself.

So if she did lie, I wonder why? What was there to gain?