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| chatham | Apr 9 2011, 12:28 PM Post #31 |
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I am wondering some if any of the Duke defendants, such as Dean Sue, will say that because the parents of the LAX players decided to hire their own lawyers rather than take Dean Sues advice and use Covington, then that was one reason for everything getting out of control and going in the direction it did by gottlieb, nifong and himan. I suppose she could claim that the "fix" was in (only minor charges) with her lawyer recommendation and the whole thing went haywire when gottlieb found out that the kids started hiring their own lawyers. Didn't gottlieb or someone say something about that? We don't have covington around to answer any of those questions. |
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| MikeZPU | Apr 9 2011, 12:58 PM Post #32 |
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All good stuff, Walt! Thanks for sharing all that! |
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| cks | Apr 9 2011, 01:10 PM Post #33 |
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I have to admit, next to seeing Nifong and Brodhead doing the perpwalk and in lock-up, nothing would warm the cockles of my heart more than seeing Dean Sue being frogmarched through a phalanx of popping flashbulbs and then appearing in too big flipflops and whatever is the suit du jour of a Durham county inmate! Edited by cks, Apr 9 2011, 01:12 PM.
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| kbp | Apr 9 2011, 02:04 PM Post #34 |
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Free Saturday lessons from Walt ...da man! |
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| abb | Apr 9 2011, 03:02 PM Post #35 |
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That is some information that I didn't know. In the NC State Bar letter to me, Grievance Committee Chairman James R. Fox didn't specify why the grievance was dismissed. That correspondence is floating around somewhere on the LS site. If your information is correct (and I have no reason to think it isn't), then I must confess to everyone that I am deeply honored that I was able to play some small part in helping exact some justice upon at least one of these malefactors.
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| abb | Apr 9 2011, 03:11 PM Post #36 |
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Here is the thread from two years ago when the grievance letters were published, along with some contemporary conversation on the issue. http://s1.zetaboards.com/Liestoppers_meeting/topic/1526899/1/?x=50#new |
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| Deleted User | Apr 9 2011, 08:25 PM Post #37 |
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Did I miss Levicy's name on the list for depositions? |
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| sdsgo | Apr 9 2011, 09:23 PM Post #38 |
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| abb | Apr 10 2011, 06:02 AM Post #39 |
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Just recently I've had some experience with that type subpoena on a news story that I'm covering in Jonesboro, LA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpoena_duces_tecum A subpoena duces tecum (or subpoena for production of evidence) is a court summons ordering a named party to appear before the court and produce documents or other tangible evidence for use at a hearing or trial. |
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| Joan Foster | Apr 10 2011, 06:05 AM Post #40 |
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Our Abb!
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| Joan Foster | Apr 10 2011, 06:07 AM Post #41 |
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And Walt, thanks for all your wisdom on this thread. |
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| Bill Anderson | Apr 10 2011, 07:20 AM Post #42 |
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Walt, this is most interesting. I remember when Abb filed the complaint and I remembered when it was dismissed. Now, I cannot imagine Dean Sue actually trying to claim legal privilege, since she was not claiming at the time that she was the attorney for the players. Nonetheless, this was a very bad moment for Duke and an example of very bad judgment on behalf of the administration. (I don't think that DS was acting on her own, and I would love to know where the fingerprints of Brodhead and other administrators were in this situation.) First, an attorney should NEVER tell someone under criminal investigation that he or she does not need an attorney. Second, we already know that Gottlieb and the DPD were planning a trap, getting each player off by himself and trying to trick him and intimidate him to implicate others. Nifong was disbarred in part because of his statement to ESPN that people who haven't been charged with anything don't need lawyers. DS might claim that she did not know it was a trap and that the players would have had Wes Covington representing them, but that clearly was not the case, either. Covington was covering Duke's interests, not the interests or needs of the players. Given statements that we KNOW came from Larry Moneta and John Burness (not to mention Brodhead's April 5 "letter to the community"), the Duke administration openly was prejudiced against them. Thus, while I don't think that DS openly was trying to get those guys into a trap, nonetheless the EFFECT would have been a hostile administration conspiring with police to falsely incriminate innocent students. Not a good thing.
Edited by Bill Anderson, Apr 10 2011, 07:21 AM.
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| Quasimodo | Apr 10 2011, 01:07 PM Post #43 |
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| Walt-in-Durham | Apr 10 2011, 01:12 PM Post #44 |
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Bill, Wes Covington had been Duke's fixer for a long time. But, he and Nifong go way back too. Wes was suspended for 180 days for fixing a DUI when Nifong was consigned to traffic court for some offense against Jim Hardin. Even before that, Covington and Nifong had been ADAs. At the same time as Nifong's disbarment, Covington was censured for conflict of interest. His bar file might make interesting reading. Walt-in-Durham |
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| abb | Apr 10 2011, 01:50 PM Post #45 |
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From the Medical Examiner's report on Covington's death, dated 2/5/10. Date/time of death was reported at 10:20 PM, 2/2/10. "The decedent was a 59 year-old male who reportedly had an argument with his wife and walked out of the residence. His wife later (10-15 minutes) came outside to walk the dog and found him lying in the snow. He has a single contact GSW to his right head. A .380 handgun was found at his feet. He has a history of depression and was taking Wellbutrin. Per discussion with police there is no suspicion of foul play. The bullet remains within his head certified by plain film." I can't make out who signed it. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner Toxicology Folder: T201000862 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7580 Case Folder: F201001319 Date of Report: 17-feb-2010 DECEDENT: John Wesley Covington Status of Report: Approved Report Electronically Approved By: Douglas Smith, MS S100002025: 6.0 ml Blood CONDITION: Postmortem SOURCE: Subclavian Vessel OBTAINED: 03-feb-2010 Ethanol -------- 200 mg/dL 02/17/2010 |
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