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March 31, 2006
Meanwhile, down Tobacco Road
The whole situation at Duke is getting hotter and hotter, and weirder and weirder. Meanwhile, the behavior of our local DA is, I think, raising legitimate questions about efforts to taint the local jury pool (eg why would he not make the DNA test results public)?
Remember as well that he is up for re-election (you see campaign signs for him here and there in the area around my development), and so possibly playing that whole sick angle: this could be his hood ornament case going into re-election season.
Posted by dag at March 31, 2006 3:38 PM
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Weird. There's definitely a sensationalistic angle to all this, it seems to me. For instance, why does the newspaper keep emphasizing that she was sodomized? As if raped is not evocative and disturbing enough?
Posted by: justin at March 31, 2006 8:15 PM
This story is starting to get some serious coverage up here as well. Hell, it's about the same coverage level as the George Mason team being in the final four (George Mason is a local school). I'm not saying that the Duke team is innocent, but I don't quite buy the stripper's story either. It smacks of Tawana Brawley (for those of you that grew up in the 80's in New York, you'll know what I'm talking about), only without the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of the world ranting on and on...
Posted by: The Good Rabbi at April 1, 2006 12:41 PM
I do remeber the Tawana Brawley story-though I don't think Jackson was as involved in that one. It was mainly an Al Sharpton production, if memory serves.
The whole problem with this Duke LAX team situation is that it is becoming a circus with each step played out in front of the media, instead of the more careful and disciplined setting where justice might actually prevail. It is in that light that the DA's behavior bothers me so much. And the trouble is that I find either of the two opposing theories of what happened that seem to be emerging to be entirely plausible. What is the truth? I don't know and probably never will.
-P
Posted by: dag at April 1, 2006 1:05 PM
I think a good analogy here is the whole Kobe Bryant story. There were two very distinct and mutually exclusive interpretations of what happened, either of which may be the truth. We'll never really know what happened.
Posted by: dag at April 1, 2006 1:06 PM