Third Indictment in the Duke Rape Case May 15, 2006 zuzu Lacrosse team captain David Evans charged with rape, first-degree sexual offense and kidnapping.
Well it is his own fault you see…hanging out where there is booze and unsavory types of people. He should have stayed home and read his Bible, then he would not be in this kind of trouble.
This case keeps making criminal justice worse and worse. Apparantly, the attacker identified the photo as looking like the assailant, but without the mustache. There is no evidence to suggest that this guy ever had a mustache, and photographs of him without a mustache the day before the attack. This isn’t about whether the accuser is telling the truth or not, it’s about the DA who has kept his job by appealing to public prejudice and by making promises inconsistent with his obligation as a prosecutor.
This case keeps making criminal justice worse and worse. Apparantly, the attacker identified the photo as looking like the assailant, but without the mustache. There is no evidence to suggest that this guy ever had a mustache, and photographs of him without a mustache the day before the attack. This isn’t about whether the accuser is telling the truth or not, it’s about the DA who has kept his job by appealing to public prejudice and by making promises inconsistent with his obligation as a prosecutor.
J swift is being sarcastic, but there’s actually quite a bit of truth in his/her statement. By their past behavior and by hiring strippers for a private performance (rather than going to a club) the students put themselves in a position to be vulnerable to a false rape accusation. (Note that I’m NOT saying the accusation is false, just supposing so for the purpose of this discussion.) Doesn’t excuse the false accuser (if that’s what she is), any more than a real rape victim’s risky actions should excuse the rapist.
Rex, that’s a point Steve Gilliard has made about the case — their story that the dancer showed up injured and drunk just makes things worse, because no rational group of guys would ever want to take the risk of letting an injured woman dance for them when there’s the risk that someone might think that they did it to her. If she shows up injured, you send her away and get her help. And you make sure that whoever she’s working for knows that she showed up that way. And this kind of thing doesn’t just apply to rape. Friends of mine who rescued an emaciated dog made sure, after a few encounters with people who yelled at them, to make a T-shirt for him that said, “I’m a Rescue.”
Wow. You are agreeing with Ann Coulter: However the Duke lacrosse rape case turns out, one lesson that absolutely will not be learned is this: You can severely reduce your chances of having a false accusation of rape leveled against you if you don’t hire strange women to come to your house and take their clothes off for money. I think that Daniel@NYU is right about the prosecutor. He did a lot of things (e.g. having the complaining witness identify the attackers from a photo array containing only Duke Lacrosse players, rather than including “fillers,”** as is the usual practice) that appear to have been geared toward getting some high-profile indictments, but not necessarily toward building a solid case – and even possibly sabotaging the case – for conviction [because a lot of the evidence will likely be thrown out]. Whether the complaining witness was the victim of rape at the hands of the Lacrosse players or whether they were falsely accused, these type of tactics are not helpful. It seems to me that the prosecutor is playing the case with an eye to his own publicity rather than toward getting justice. ** Think the 4 people other than the suspect in a police line-up,
Cites and links would be helpful, Glaivester. To something other than what the defense attorneys have been saying. It’s simply common sense, and common decency, to get someone help if she shows up to dance for you and she’s injured and/or falling-down drunk. It’s the essence of entitlement to make her dance anyway.