Third Duke Lacrosse Team Member Indicted

	posted by Matt on 04:15 PM May 15th, 2006
	Anonymous User writes "A third member of the Duke Lacrosse Team has been indicted by the Grand Jury. David Evans from Bethsada, Maryland had been charged with first-degree forcible rape, sexual offense and kidnapping. Strangely, there is still no DNA evidence linking ANY of the players to the stripper. Also, if we take the stripper's original story at face value then the Grand Jury still has yet to indict 17 of the remaining players. OOPS! I forgot, she changed her story. It's really only three. But what's the difference, it's an election year."

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Apparently Observing Due Process Is Now a Crime (Score:2) by Roy on 06:15 PM May 15th, 2006 EST (#1) (From the article cited) -- "The rape allegations led Duke to cancel the lacrosse team's season and accept the resignation of coach Mike Pressler. Duke President Richard Brodhead also initiated a series of internal investigations, one of which concluded administrators were slow to react to the scandal in part because of initial doubts about the accuser's credibility." I wish I was in Dixie.... NOT! I guess having doubts about wild allegations is now grounds for prosecution at Duke, as well as being slow to condemn the accused, and let's not even talk about the heretical suspicion that a stripper might be lying and trying to make a little bank...

Re:Apparently Observing Due Process Is Now a Crime (Score:2) by Luek on 10:51 AM May 16th, 2006 EST (#2) I guess having doubts about wild allegations is now grounds for prosecution at Duke, as well as being slow to condemn the accused, and let's not even talk about the heretical suspicion that a stripper might be lying and trying to make a little bank... Actually, making false rape accusations can be very profitable. This case has many similiarties to the Tawana Brawley false rape scandal of the late 1980's. After the Grand Jury failed to indict the accused for lack of evidence Tawana and family moved out of the rape hysteria limelight taking with them the $300,000 defense fund that supporters gave her. Big surprise huh? See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley

Re:Apparently Observing Due Process Is Now a Crime (Score:1) by Thundercloud on 11:53 AM May 16th, 2006 EST (#3) Are they taking into account this woman's lifestyle and past history, at all? I mean come ON she's a STRIPPER for Pete's sake. Few strippers are pillars of the community. And if I'm not mistaken she made a rape allegation a few years back, didn't she? What became of that? I know one of the Lacrosse players was arrested for something a while back, but other than that what are the histories of the players as a whole? And is THAT being taken into account? So much of this seems odd. Like I said before I don't know if these guys are innocent or not, but I won't be surprised if they are. I also won't be surprised if they are innocent but convicted anyway, because that is where we are, these days, in this once great country.   Thundercloud.   "Hoka hey!"

Re:Apparently Observing Due Process Is Now a Crime (Score:1) by RandomMan on 11:01 PM May 16th, 2006 EST (#4) Thundercloud, as you're well aware, these days the fact that a man didn't do it is not a defense. Being male is enough to allow a prosecutor procure a conviction against you, thanks to the "women's movement". Why do they even bother with trials anymore? Oh, right. Free press.

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