Monday, 3 April 2006

Linkage

A couple of Duke lacrosse-related links for your edification before I turn in: a pseudononymous student posts his lengthy reaction, while Provost Peter Lange and Prof. Houston Baker have a frank exchange of views.

2 comments:

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[Permalink] 1. William King wrote @ Tue, 4 Apr 2006, 9:33 am CDT:

Since DA Nifong has gone out there and made the statements that he would charge these kids without DNA, and throngs of journalists and cable shows have parroted him in that decision –
to believe them, this is what you’d have to believe.

The boys on the team were smart enough and organized enough to
pass themselves off as another sport’s team before the incident even occurred (and score 1600 on their SATs.)

They were disciplined and sober enough to attack the victim without leaving any skin cells, microscopic hair, salvia, semen, or blood
(remember the claim is she was orally assaulted also).

They used fake names, and then remembered under duress to use the fake names.

Decisive and unified enough for all 46 to leave the house and surrounding area in 120 seconds after a 911 call was placed reporting their behavior.

Calm enough to subdue a woman fighting for her life while successfully applying a condom.

Precise enough to organize a sexual assault position and position(s) where the victim could not see that they were wearing or applying condoms (orally too – would be difficult).

Committed enough for 43 players to lie for 3. To put their future on the line for 3 other boys.

Disciplined and reasoned enough at 18 & 19 to not confide in their girlfriends, families, buddies, and fellow students, about a major traumatic event that has been leading the National news.

AND DUMB and Careless enough to leave the victim’s Four Fake fingernails, her cellphone, a roll of bills totaling $400.00, and her pocketbook lying on the floor right where the incident occurred for 60 hours after the event!

Nifong and the media talk show hosts lost me when they said if there is NO DNA the girl was still gang-raped. You’d have to be an imbecile to believe these things could all coexist simultaneously.

Respectfully,

W. K.

 
[Permalink] 2. Arthur Baragar wrote @ Thu, 6 Apr 2006, 12:22 am CDT:

Are post-rape DNA collection and testing procedures so advanced these days that there are no false negatives?

 
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