We took note of the Duke Lacrosse team matter when it was first reported, but kept quiet because we had nothing to say. If the charges were true, the perps should be punished severely. End of story. But on the other hand……. Was it the glee and fervor with which the MSM jumped on the story that started our nagging doubts? Was it the memory of Tawana Brawley? Something didn’t seem right, but we let it pass. Let the system work. Now we have formed a tentative opinion, and it is very unfavorable to the accuser, the DA Mike Nifong, and the medical examiner. AP:

A woman who claims she was raped by members of Duke University’s lacrosse team was described as “just passed-out drunk” by one of the first police officers to see her, according to a recording of radio traffic obtained Thursday by The Associated Press. The conversation between the officer and a police dispatcher took place about 1:30 a.m. March 14, about five minutes after a grocery store security guard called 911 to report a woman in the parking lot who would not get out of someone else’s car. The officer gave the dispatcher the police code for an intoxicated person and said the woman was unconscious. When asked whether she needed medical help, the officer said: “She’s breathing and appears to be fine. She’s not in distress. She’s just passed-out drunk.”

The black woman, a 27-year-old stripper and college student, told police she was raped and beaten by three white men around midnight at an off-campus party thrown by Duke’s lacrosse team. The racially charged allegations have led Duke to cancel the highly ranked team’s season and accept the resignation of its coach. No charges have been filed, but District Attorney Mike Nifong has said he believes a crime was committed. Attorneys for the players have said DNA tests failed to connect any players to the alleged attack, and they have urged Nifong to drop his investigation. Defense lawyers, however, have said time-stamped photographs taken by the players show that the accuser was drunk and already had suffered some injuries when she arrived at the house for the party….

The description of the woman’s medical exam — which Nifong has said is his basis for believing a rape occurred — does not mention her being drunk. It states only that the woman’s injuries and behavior were consistent with having been raped, sexually assaulted and having suffered a traumatic experience.

The woman has told police she and another stripper hired to dance at the party arrived at 11:30 p.m. March 13. The pair reportedly left the house a short time later, fearing for their safety. The accuser told police the two 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.

From what we surmise now, the woman accuser should be thrown in jail, the DA should be fired and disbarred if he does not go after the accuser and her real attackers, and the medical examiner should also be relieved of his job.

Here are our points: (a) there is real DNA evidence in this case, though no one seems to mention the fact. However, this is politically incorrect DNA, since it points directly away from Nifong’s targets and towards others. If there were not DNA evidence on the accuser, there would have been zero point in looking at the DNA of the lacrosse team. The DNA evidence exonerates the 46 tested members of the lacrosse team, and it points to another person or persons. We leave you to speculate on the type of person the DNA might actually belong to. Nifong, who faces a May 2 primary election, has used the case for free advertising (“Nifong stopped talking publicly about the case, but not before he granted more than 50 interviews with newspaper and television reporters, including live appearances on national cable news shows.”) He seems fixated on the team members, though the evidence clearly points elsewhere. Maybe he can join OJ in the hunt for the real killers; (b) the woman’s story seems cockamamie on its face, and the photos and the drunkenness underscore her lack of credibility; (c) the medical examiner is incompetent if he failed to note the drunken state of the accuser.

We will be happy to offer a hearty apology if our surmise is wrong. The way things appear to us now, however, the three people who should be investigated do not, to our knowledge, play lacrosse. We would not be unhappy to see the woman and Nifong in jail themselves, and the medical examiner fired.

UPDATE

We found comment #5 on this post at La Shawn Barber’s Corner interesting.

UPDATE II

AP:

The woman who says she was raped by three members of Duke’s lacrosse team also told police 10 years ago she was raped by three men, filing a 1996 complaint claiming she had been assaulted three years earlier when she was 14. Authorities in nearby Creedmoor said Thursday that none of the men named in the decade-old report was ever charged

The accuser’s father has some new fabrications for the case:

The father of the accuser in the rape case involving Duke University lacrosse players said his daughter was raped with a broomstick during a party last month, and that explains defense lawyers’ claims that no DNA from players was found on her.

The woman’s father, appearing on MSNBC’s Rita Cosby Live & Direct on Tuesday night, said his daughter told him that when three team members raped and sodomized her, they also used a broom. The father said he learned about the broom from others, “and then she told me afterwards because she didn’t want me to know that part,” he said.

Durham, N.C., civil right activist Victoria Peterson told The Charlotte Observer yesterday that an investigator in the case told her the woman had been sodomized “with an object.” “He did not say a broom, just an object,” said Peterson, who has become a friend and adviser to the woman’s family since the party. “He told me she wasn’t just raped, she was terribly sodomized.” When reached by the Observer yesterday at his home, the woman’s father said he was leaving for a doctor’s appointment and couldn’t talk.

UPDATE III

Now she’s having a baby. Eeeewwwwwwww!

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