Ch-ch-ch-changes!
Published Thu, Jan 11 2007 2:06 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics
Mike Nifong's botched prosecution is in the news again. This travesty just goes on and on...
In her latest statement to investigators, the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case changed her account again about when the alleged gang rape occurred, who attacked her and how.
How many times is it now that this woman has changed her story? Surely it has to be more than the number of times King County "found" uncounted ballots in the 2004 governor's election.
Defense attorneys filed the statement in court today, arguing that it was more evidence that the woman is an unreliable witness.
The woman adjusted the timing of the assault to earlier in the evening, a time point preceding the well-documented alibi of one accused player, Reade Seligmann. The defense, however, introduced yet more alibi evidence for Seligmann: he was on the cell phone with his girlfriend during the height of the attack as the accuser now times it.
How convenient. There's a well documented alibi for one of the accused, so the story changes. Isn't it fortunate that the truth will still prevail? Even as her story changes it's still refuted by the evidence.
The new version of the events comes from a Dec. 21 interview by Linwood Wilson, chief investigator for Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong. The statement marked the first time anyone from the District Attorney's office discussed the case with the woman since charges were filed in April. The interview came less than a week after a private laboratory director testified that he and Nifong agreed not to report DNA evidence favorable to the three accused players.
What more proof do we need that this is a trumped up witch hunt ala Tawana Brawley? What more proof do we need that Mike Nifong is deliberatly railroading these three men to score political points? He suppressed evidence. He never bothered to actually get the story from the so-called victim.
The statement layers new and contradictory accounts over the woman's previous statements:
* In her latest statement she said the attack ended at midnight.
In previous accounts, the woman said the gang-rape ended shortly before she left in the car driven by Kim Roberts, the second dancer. Roberts called 911 as she was driving away at 12:53 a.m., according to police records. This new account leaves 50 minutes unaccounted between the end of the rape and the departure from the party.
The new statement runs contrary to time stamped photos of the party, which show the two women dancing between 12:00 and 12:04 a.m. in the living room of the house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.
Even more proof of the lie...
* The woman now said her alleged assailants used multiple names.
In previous accounts, she said she was assaulted by three men named "Adam", "Brett" and "Matt." She has given conflicting descriptions of the three men and contradictory accounts of how they assaulted her.
In the Dec. 21 interview, she said for the first time that the players used multiple names. "Dan, Adam and Brett was used by Dave Evans," Wilson wrote. "Adam and Matt was also used by Reade Seligmann. She does not remember a name being used for Collin Finnerty or if he was called by a name."
Well, multiple names for the accused, multiple stories for the accuser. I guess that balances out.
* The accuser has changed her description of Evans. On April 4, she viewed a photograph of Evans and said it looked like one of her assailants, except that the assailant had a moustache. In the Dec. 21 statement, the woman said the assailant had a five o'clock shadow, not a moustache. Evans has a visible five o'clock shadow in the photograph.
The description of the "perpetrator" keeps changing.
Isn't it about time this was dropped? Shouldn't somebody file charges against this Tawana Brawley wanna-be for lying to investigators?
Where's Al Sharpton when you need him anyway?
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