60 Minutes Takes on the Duke Rape Case
Sixty Minutes had an expose’ which lambasted District Attorney Mike Nifong’s conduct during the Duke rape investigation. According to an internal Duke investigation, the DA “…pandered to the [black] community in an election season.” In spite of DNA evidence which cleared the players the DA’s investigation continued. In spite of contradictory testimony from eye witnesses, the investigation continued. For those of us who have been following the investigation from the very beginning, this is not new. What Nifong has been doing borders on criminal. He has used this investigation to mobilize the black community in order to win their vote. Never mind that the entire charge was bogus from the start.
Evidence collected by 60 Minutes during the last six months shows that it was impossible for two of the Lacrosse players to have even been in the house when the alleged rape took place. The testimony of the ‘rape victim’s’ co-dancer during the party was particularly damning. She directly contradicted much of the ‘victim’s’ statement given to police.
The 60 Minutes investigation also faulted police conduct. And they faulted the DA for his conduct in the investigation. Also noteworthy was that the internal University investigation also placed some of the blame on the faculty and community of Durham, North Carolina. They by-passed the presumption of innocence stage and handed down a verdict of guilty!
There is one thing that stood out in the 60 Minutes story, three young men have had their lives ruined, forty Lacrosse players have had their championship season cancelled, and Duke University has had their reputation tarnished because of false charge.
Justin Henderson at The Tibbetts Report says: The team certainly doesn’t come off saintly, but it would be tough for a prosecutor to move forward in good faith on this charge, without extremely compelling physical evidence.
Which Nifong does not seem to have, I might add. No one comes off as saintly in this investigation: not the dancers, not the players, not the police, and certainly not the DA. The players were acting like a bunch of drunk morons to be sure. The ‘raped’ dancer was drunk or on drugs at the Lacrosse house, but she is most certainly lying about the rape. The police were conducting an investigation with only one thing in mind–I know a rape took place at this house and they disregarded a lot of evidence which showed a rape did not take place. The DA is the one who comes off looking like a villain. This rogue DA ruined the lives of a lot of people just so he could win an election. What a waste of human flesh!
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