Duke lax accuser “not being forthcoming” with new prosecutors
posted at 2:42 pm on March 16, 2007 by Allahpundit
Like Jake said to Tommy in Raging Bull, “You give me answers, you just don’t give me the right answers.”
Funny how she always gave Nifong the right answers.
In an article spanning four pages, roughly three are devoted to explaining why she might very well be telling the truth but need a little coaxing to warm up to the new prosecutors now that her little race-baiting ventriloquist’s dummy has been taken away.
The accuser has met at least twice with prosecutors from the North Carolina attorney general’s office, which took over the case from Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong in January.
In those interviews, she gave incomplete answers when asked about the alleged assault and the events surrounding it, according to sources.
The same sources added that Kim Roberts, the second dancer who attended the March 2006 party, had also refused to speak with investigators and had said she would do so only if subpoenaed. Roberts has spoken to the media about the case, including doing an interview with ABC News’ “Good Morning America.”…
Victims’ rights advocates told ABC News that it could take the accuser time to get comfortable with the new prosecutors, stressing that her level of participation could change. They also say it could be part of a fairly normal reaction to what’s been a highly abnormal case.
“She probably feels very beat up by the system. If you don’t have a sense of trust in the system, then you’re certainly not going to be forthcoming,” said Leah Oettinger, an advocate most recently with the Durham Crisis Response Center. “Even just with the vicious attacks on the Web and her picture on TV. … The trauma, the lack of trust that anyone’s going to be there for you, fear of being alone — all of that could contribute to someone’s reluctance to talk.”
The state AG says they expect to decide whether to proceed to trial or drop the charges within a few weeks. The suspense is killing me.
Update: Probably right:
Hot Air: has quoted some of the nonsense claims about her needing to “warm up” to the prosecutors. I just didn’t feel like quoting such absurdities.
Still, it seems likely that that’s the crap the prosecutors were feeding the ABC reporter. (But, that crap being not-for-attribution, she had to find some other lawyer to say the same thing.)
So it seems the prosecutors are taking the easy way out. They’ll just drop the charges citing the accuser’s unwillingness to go forward (she feels so “abused”!), and avoid actually doing their jobs and getting to the actual truth.
There are too many bad racial vibes from both ends in this case for the AG to side firmly with one party or the other. This is how he’ll split the baby.
Can’t wait ’til the Duke kids sue Nifong and she has to take the stand, though.
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Or it could be that she just caught Scooter Libby being convicted of LIEING to a GRAND JURY!!!
You know… if they are gonna send a powerful white guy to jail for lieing over a non crime…
Me bearing false witness and purjury could get me slammed…
or not…
Romeo13 on March 16, 2007 at 2:48 PM
Maybe the present prosecutors are actually trying to find out the truth instead of pandering to the liberal narrative … what a novel approach that would be. Of course, that doesn’t work out for the accuser too good now.
How much longer before Jesse Jackson says that this is Selma all over again?
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:00 PM
“gi gi gi, Im a gonna get me them Duke Boys!” – Nifong
JayHaw Phrenzie on March 16, 2007 at 3:01 PM
She’s black, she won’t get sent away for the sole fact that no one wants PUSH, Je$$e and Al at the office protesting (especially in the South) about the racist government…blah blah blah…
Tim Burton on March 16, 2007 at 3:08 PM
The plain and simple truth is that she is finally being quizzed by people with IQ’s higher than normal room temp. who want to know what happened, where and when. Not by some knothead who just wanted to make sure he got himself re-elected.
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on March 16, 2007 at 3:25 PM
Oh…. and.. . Death to America!
Romeo13 on March 16, 2007 at 3:26 PM
I have a feeling that the accused will not just lie down and let this be swept under the rug. I do however predict that she will never take the stand, even in a suit against Nifong.
bbz123 on March 16, 2007 at 3:26 PM
Funny how no one asked the accused players whether they felt “very beat up by the system.”
SWLiP on March 16, 2007 at 3:28 PM
From what I’ve heard about the DNA evidence, the accused will lie down quite readily …
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:35 PM
I meant the Duke players as the accused, 1328, the ,uh,woman in this is the accuser.
bbz123 on March 16, 2007 at 3:40 PM
Of course not. Instead she’s going to make a killing on the book deal and Oprah circuit, as well as the money that the “Reverend” Jessie Jackson already promised her.
mojojojo on March 16, 2007 at 3:48 PM
Credibility is a terrible thing to waste.
kmcguire on March 16, 2007 at 3:50 PM
Yeah, my fault, I misunderstood … atlthough I do stand by my statment regarding the PoorSingleMotherWhoWasJustTryingToWorkHerWayThroughCollege(TM).
thirteen28 on March 16, 2007 at 3:56 PM
…and spread her legs.
Did I just say that? Oops….
Tim Burton on March 16, 2007 at 4:57 PM
I.Can’t. Wait.
Almost a tittilating as this. The race card is going to the bottom of the deck.
Theworldisnotenough on March 16, 2007 at 5:16 PM
This poor woman certainly had DNA from numerous other persons. So, she must have been raped by a group of men
somewhere, and since she was obviously screwed up at the time, maybe it was the Duke basketball team. It’s easy to confuse the word basketball with lacross.
gary on March 16, 2007 at 5:26 PM
That’s all she’s ever given through out the entire history of this faux-assault case.
When ABC News starts quoting people with absolutely no bearing on this case, they loose all objectivity and credibility. Just what relevance does a statement from someone who had no contact with this woman actually have when explaining why her statements are inconsistent or incomplete? Absolutely none. Hay ABC, you might as well hold “Man on the Street” interviews, it would be just as informative and relevant.
RedinBlueCounty on March 16, 2007 at 5:39 PM
You act as if they matter. My God, there was an election to be one. You know the old Democratic saying: To make a race-baiting omelette, you gotta break a few honkeys.
SailorDave on March 16, 2007 at 7:14 PM
Incredibly biased as the ABC article was, not even mentioning the possiblity that she won’t cooperate because she has been lying through her teeth and is criminally liable either for accurately reporting what didn’t happen but which she made up in a vendetta or in covering her past lies with more lies, it did contain the bottom line….There is no physical evidence whatsoever that a rape took place, much less that the accused were responsible.
I don’t think the investigating committee will punt on this one. A statement that the case can’t move forward because of noncooperation from the complainant wil not satisfy those who want to fry the lacrosse players or those who want vindiation for the falsely accused, and Nifong’s transgressions have been so serious and publicized that anything short of terminating his position and bringing up serious ethics charges against him will make it a national laughingstock.
ptolemy on March 16, 2007 at 7:15 PM
One = won. Jeez, I need to learn to proof-read these rants.
SailorDave on March 16, 2007 at 7:15 PM
Unfortunately, as I have blogged a few times, and asked a North Carolina DA whose comments were not for blogging, if Nifong is sued, and loses, it is the people of North Carolina who will end up paying the judgement. Supposedly, Nifong cannot be held personally responsible.
William Teach on March 16, 2007 at 10:17 PM
Sheriff Roscoe P. Nifong
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA yer killing me here JayHaw.
V5 on March 17, 2007 at 12:09 AM
“The state AG says they expect to decide whether to proceed to trial or drop the charges within a few weeks. The suspense is killing me.”
The state has no case. It never had a case. It probably not continue the case and dismiss all charges (hopefully “with prejudice”).
To proceed with this busted case is malicious prosecution and a violation of the Duke student’s civil right under color of law.
georgej on March 17, 2007 at 6:54 AM
The Accuser feels “beat up” by the system?? What does she think the young men whose lives she with malice and aforethought set out to ruin?
The part that really make me angry about this are the real cases of rape too afraid to go forward for the insanity of this non-case. She wasn’t raped. The pretense that she was makes me ill.
Noelie on March 17, 2007 at 11:13 AM