All Charges dropped in Duke Lacross case

[royalfan5]

http://www.deadspin.com/sports/lacrosse/duke-lacrosse-rape-charges-dropped-223890.php

No surprise here, and also illustrates why you never, ever order strippers in. Too much potential for bad things. If you go to the club you are in a much more protected.

[Mjcpr]

The alert that I got said the rape charges were dropped by the kidnapping and sexual.......something were not.

[william_brasky]

Another Link (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061222/ap_on_re_us/duke_lacrosse)

Here's the article.


DURHAM, N.C. - 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.
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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.

[Sooner_Havok]

Guess they finally decided that since the evedince said something completly different than the story she was telling it would be best to let the issue go. Now I have to wonder how they are going to prove kiddnapping charges, or better yet, how can these guys refute a kiddnapping charge. They only have proof that one of the now alleged kiddnappers was gone during this kiddnapping incident. If she made up the first part, what else is she lying about?

[Flagstaffsooner]

Think we'll hear from this guy about this?
http://www.10-7.com/humor/mugshots/jesse_jackson.jpg

[Sooner in Tampa]

F%&K Nifong. He needs to be ran out of town.

[Sooner_Havok]

How dare they use this evidence that shows nothing actually happened to intimidate this poor girl into saying nothing happened!

:P