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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:41 PM Original message |
N.C. Attorney General: Duke students are "INNOCENT." |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
1. Not surprised they got away with it. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. If you read the accuser's own contradictory accounts -- which are |
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jhrobbins (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Is your assessment based on ANY evidence or just your innate |
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woo me with science (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. It's a club. |
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cgrindley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. come on |
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murloc (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:48 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. She almost did |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:30 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. And your supporting evidence that they got away with it? |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
4. Dropping a case only means it is not prosecutable |
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cgrindley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:49 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Actually, Cooper did declare their innocence |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 01:52 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. That was a quote. The Attorney General specifically said they are |
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Henryman (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:00 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. The Attorney General has no power..... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That's what YOU think. The Attorney General declared them INNOCENT. |
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Henryman (187 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 04:50 PM Response to Reply #15 |
52. "That's what you think!", "That's what you think!" |
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Lex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:03 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. The AG wasn't there that night, so not even he knows what happened. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. He knows that her contradictory stories also contradicted all the outside |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. The word "innocent" is nowhere in that story. "Insufficient evidence" is. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. You are flat wrong. The Attorney General used the word "innocent" |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:24 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Find the source, then. The reference given didn't have it. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I AM the source. I was watching him on TV, and typing as he spoke. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. I looked at a CNN link in another thread. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. here it is, finally. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
24. Thank you for the link. And might I add, |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
50. Then they are, by default, in the legal sense, innocent. Guilt is the only thing |
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originalpckelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:03 PM Response to Original message |
11. Conviction still depends upon evidence and due process of law. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:29 PM Response to Reply #11 |
22. They actually have been prosecuted on false charges for more than a year. |
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Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:34 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. If the races had been reversed you would have seen DU attacking the prosecutor |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:39 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. I'm afraid that I have to agree with you. People also may have been misled |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
20. We don't know what happened... |
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renie408 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:34 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Uh, yeah. Mike Nifong's ego trip went on that long. This kind of comment |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:38 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Exactly. Those students will never be over this, because of attitudes |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
32. But the system worked, didn't it? |
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renie408 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:44 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. Not well enough. n/t |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:45 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. No, the system didn't work. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:52 PM Response to Reply #34 |
39. The system is supposed to prevent rogue prosecutions? |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:54 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Yes, the system is supposed to prevent rogue prosecutions. |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:01 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Therefore, the system works, doesn't it? |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:22 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. Did "the system work" with Nixon? |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:26 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. What other safeguards are on prosecutors, aside from what is happening now? |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:47 PM Response to Reply #43 |
47. It is broken if you have to spend millions in order to get a fair result. |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:46 PM Response to Reply #32 |
36. I don't think you would be saying that if you were one of the young men |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:36 PM Response to Reply #20 |
27. The something that went on is this: |
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Nye Bevan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:39 PM Response to Reply #20 |
29. Yes. Something did happen. |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:40 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. Me, too. They should throw the book at Nifong. |
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Kagemusha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:53 PM Response to Reply #20 |
41. Is abusing prosecutorial discretion to lock in an election win on your list of maybes? |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
35. Has Imus weighed in on this yet? |
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Forkboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:48 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. ... |
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NaturalHigh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
38. When will Crystal Mangum be prosecuted... |
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ruiner4u (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 02:53 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. she wont... |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:02 PM Response to Reply #40 |
44. they already have mentioned it .... |
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pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:52 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. One of the reporters at the press conference asked if the woman |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 03:48 PM Response to Original message |
48. The AG drops the charges and says they're innocent |
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Blackhatjack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-11-07 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
51. Nifong violated the duty to 'seek justice' rather than a conviction at any cost.... |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-12-07 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
53. This is why prosecutors and judges should be appointed, not elected. |
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