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Baldo	Jun 18 2008, 12:53 PM
Posts: 8,562 Group: Tier2 Member #45 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	maggief Jun 18 2008, 12:26 PM The first of the meetings occurred the morning of March 29 and involved Baker, Mayor Bill Bell, former Police Chief Steve Chalmers, Senior Assistant to the City Manager Reginald Johnson and lacrosse case lead detective Ben Himan. The follow-up session occurred the afternoon of March 29 and included Baker, Chalmers, Himan, Deputy Police Chief Ron Hodge, supervising detective Mark Gottlieb, police attorney Toni Smith and a group of officials from Duke University. Lawyers allege that the two meetings gave senior officials an avenue to pressure the detectives to make quick arrests in the case, regardless of evidence that was by then pointing toward the players' innocence. Quick arrests were supposed "to satisfy a Durham community that had been misled by ... false and inflammatory Nifong statements and Durham police statements into believing that three white Duke lacrosse players had committed a violent and racially motivated gang rape," the amended complaint said. Great work again Maggief. It is hard to understate the importance of those two meetings. In reality everyone who attended those meetings knew the charges were almost impossible to believe. The SBI preliminary results were not in essence preliminary. They were info-ed there would be no further tests between Crystal's swabs and any Lacrosse Player. It was a definite fact and later as the DNASI results came out there never was. Baker, Smith, and any other attorney along with the PD from Durham & Duke knew exactly what those results meant. No Case. If anyone had any integrity or courage they would have said stop this witch hunt immediately! A couple of points... All those in attendance withheld that data from the general public. Imagine the difference if people knew there would be no matches. The case would have collapsed immediately. Crsytal's true profession would have been revealed. The egg on people's faces would have been outrageous. Many had already gone on record with the young college mother of two routine. The Prism of Race, Class, and Gender would have been destroyed. But I still suspect something more sinister was at play. I have no idea what cause so many officials to wash their hands and allow this case to move forward. But the biggest lie is that it was the "Lone Roguer!"


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