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| Mason | Mar 12 2010, 05:55 PM Post #1 |
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. Lester gave the Duke kids the Business - and he wasn't concerned with the size of any bathroom, in fact, he wasn't concerned with the myriad of problems that made the Duke "attack" impossible. Here's how Lester Munson starts out his article on Ben Roethlisberger though: "It's so narrow and so cramped you can barely turn around. Its floor is filthy. It has one basin and one toilet. And it's the place where a 20-year-old college student says Ben Roethlisberger attacked her. The squalid bathroom in a college town drinking establishment is now a crime scene and a major focus of an investigation that has already put Roethlisberger in a bad situation, a situation that could become catastrophic if the police and the prosecutor in Milledgeville, Ga., decide to charge him with sexual assault." Oh, Lester. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/commentary/news/story?id=4986265 Edited by Mason, Mar 12 2010, 05:55 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Mar 12 2010, 07:07 PM Post #2 |
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You're right. Munson also discusses: Accuser's veracity and sobriety (snip) They are also determining whether the accuser was drinking, how much she drank and how long she drank. They will gather cash register and service records and interview friends who accompanied her. Prosecutors are loathe to file sexual assault charges when the accuser is in the brownout or blackout stage of intoxication. Evidence of injury (snip) "Outcry" witnesses Police and prosecutors rely on witnesses who are able to describe the accuser's condition in the moments after the attack. A description of an accuser in hysterics or in shocked disbelief can be important to a prosecutor. Both the police and attorney Garland are interviewing any "outcry" witness who may have seen or even talked with the accuser after the alleged incident. An outcry witness was powerful evidence against Tyson. When the victim, Desiree Washington, fled Tyson's hotel room in Indianapolis, she returned to her hotel in Tyson's limo. The driver, Virginia Foster, told the jury that she saw a sobbing woman in near hysterics and heard her crying, "I can't believe he did that." In the Kobe Bryant investigation in Eagle, Colo., there were two outcry witnesses, one who said the victim was disheveled and crying and another who said the victim as perfectly normal. Prosecutors dropped the case against Bryant. [In the Duke case, the "outcry" witness said the accuser's story was a crock...] (snip) Bathroom dimensions The last NFL star accused of a sexual assault in a small bathroom was former Green Bay Packers TE Mark Chmura. The accuser claimed that Chmura grabbed her and pulled her into the bathroom and raped her. Among the many holes in her bogus story was the bathroom itself. Chmura's attorney, Gerry Boyle of Milwaukee, brought into the courtroom a model of the bathroom with its walls cut off four feet above the bathroom floor. It was not a scale model. It was the exact size and dimensions of the bathroom. When, during his cross examination, Boyle led the accuser to the actual-size model to demonstrate that her story was physically impossible, she stepped back from the model and exclaimed, "That's not it. It is too small." The jury deliberated less than an hour in reaching a not guilty verdict. (snip) What happened in the dingy bathroom? The accuser says one thing. Roethlisberger says another. But it's not merely he-said-she-said. The evidence from the bathroom itself, the hospital and the witnesses will determine who is telling the truth. [the evidence from the bathroom itself, the hospital, and the witnesses can determine who is telling the truth?]
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| Quasimodo | Mar 12 2010, 07:17 PM Post #3 |
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The bathroom at 610 N. Buchanan must be the only crime scene the Durham media (and the national media) never wanted to photograph... (I wonder if the DPD photographed it? As a crime scene?) |
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