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Turns out that gang rape committed by white privilege wasn’t. Weren’t nuthin’ but a G-strang thang. Lying nigger cunt treated with respect while substantial white males were treated as a criminal collective.

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Published: Apr 10, 2006 04:25 PM
Modified: Apr 10, 2006 06:03 PM

Attorney: No DNA found on victim

From staff reports, From staff reports

A lawyer representing a captain of the Duke lacrosse team said DNA tests show that a woman who said she was raped at a team party was not sexually assaulted.

The state crime lab delivered results of DNA tests on 46 members of the men’s lacrosse team to Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong on Monday afternoon.

“This report shows they are innocent,” said defense lawyer Joseph Cheshire at a news conference about 5:45 p.m.

He said the woman, whom team members hired to strip at a party March 13, was unharmed at the house at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.

“No way was she raped,” Cheshire said at a news conference at the Durham courthouse.

Noelle Talley, a spokeswoman for the State Bureau of Investigation, said the results were delivered about 4 p.m.

Reporters surrounded the office of Bill Thomas, a lawyer who represents one of the four team captains. Another defense lawyer, Butch Williams, who left the office and jumped into a Mercedes SUV said he had not yet seen the results but was trying to get them.

Nifong has said he will not release the test results, but he is required by law to deliver them to the players. Some of their lawyers have said the results will exonerate their clients and they have said they would consider releasing the results.

Nifong persuaded a judge to order the DNA tests after a woman hired to strip at a team party March 13 said three men raped her in the bathroom of a rental house on Buchanan Boulevard.

“It would not be appropriate for me to go into those results,” Nifong said.

When asked whether he was concerned that defense lawyers might give an incomplete version of the results, he said. “Is that any different from what they’ve been doing so far?”

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‘Substantially impaired’
Lawyer: Stripper injured before Duke lacrosse party
Posted: Sunday April 9, 2006 7:16PM; Updated: Sunday April 9, 2006 7:37PM

“I think this week we will go a long ways toward clearing these young men’s names,” attorney Bill Thomas said Sunday.
AP

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Time-stamped photographs will show an exotic dancer was already injured and “very impaired” when she arrived at a party where she claims she was raped by members of Duke University’s men’s lacrosse team, an attorney for one of the players said Sunday.

Durham attorney Bill Thomas said some of the photographs, taken when she arrived at the house, indicate the woman was injured before getting to the party March 13. They show extensive bruises and scrapes on her legs, especially around the knees, he said.

“This young lady was substantially impaired. She had fallen several times during the course of the evening,” Thomas said.

He declined to identify the player he represents and said he would not release the photos, taken by at least two cameras, until pending DNA tests are completed.

He also wouldn’t say whether the photos were taken by a lacrosse team member or someone else; court documents have indicated that only team members were present at the party.

No one has been charged in the case, but the allegations that members of the nearly all-white team raped the woman, a black student at a nearby university, have rocked both Duke and Durham.

The allegations have led to the resignation of coach Mike Pressler, the cancellation of the lacrosse season and the suspension of one player from school.

Several dozen people gathered Sunday outside the house where the party took place, and pledged to return each Sunday until the case is resolved.

“Whether I want to believe it, or whether you want to believe it, something took place in there,” said Johnny Williamson, 36, of Durham. “Something indecent took place.”

District Attorney Mike Nifong, who was expected to return this week from an out-of-town conference and has not commented on the case in the past several days, has said previously he is confident a rape occurred. Court documents said a medical exam of the alleged victim found injuries consistent with sexual assault.

The victim has not returned repeated messages seeking comment, but her father said Sunday she hasn’t changed her story.

“I expect them to say that,” he said of the lawyers’ contentions his daughter is lying.

The woman and the other dancer arrived separately, Thomas said, and performed briefly before leaving. The victim told police she and the other dancer left because they feared for their safety, but were later convinced to come back inside.

Thomas said the photos contradict the alleged victim’s assertion she was scared, as they show her standing at the door of the off-campus house with “a major grin on her face” as she tried to get back inside.

“People inside the house have stated she was banging on the door, attempting to regain entry,” Thomas said.

The woman told police she was pulled into a bathroom and assaulted after coming back into the house. But Thomas said the woman locked herself in the bathroom, where police later found her purse, cell phone, and several artificial fingernails she claimed to have lost during a struggle with her attackers.

Thomas said one of the attorneys representing team members had interviewed the other dancer extensively, and she said the alleged victim never told her about a rape.

“All of these statements you’ve heard … about this brutal assault, rape, kidnapping and robbery which occurred, I believe that the public will soon be able to learn the truth, and that these allegations are totally false and without merit,” Thomas said.

Both the team’s captains and attorneys for team members have said the DNA tests, which may be completed this week, will prove the allegation are false. The players’ attorneys also have raised other questions about the allegations, saying e-mails written in the hours after the alleged attack will help prove the players’ claims that nothing happened that night.

Attorneys also have raised suspicions about a 911 call, made shortly after the alleged attack would have occurred, from a black woman who claimed someone at the party shouted racial slurs at her and a friend. The caller alternatively told police the pair were driving and walking past the house. Thomas said Sunday he and other attorneys believe the second dancer at the party made the call.

“These young men have been absolutely vilified in the press,” Thomas said. “I think this week we will go a long ways toward clearing these young men’s names. I can assure you that this has been a nightmare for each and every one of them.”

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