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Third Duke lacrosse indictment
From the News & Observer: A grand jury indicted Duke lacrosse player Dave Forker Evans, a senior and team captain from Bethesda, Md., for first degree rape, first degree sexual offense and kidnapping today. His lawyer, Joseph B. Cheshire V, said he expected Evans to turn himself in at the jail at 2 p.m. Evans,
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Duke lacrosse: Defense claims “no conclusive match”
ABC News reports that the defense is claiming that latest DNA tests in the Duke lacrosse case are not conclusive: A lawyer for one of the players on the Duke University lacrosse team said the results of the second round of DNA testing in the investigation of rape allegations showed “no conclusive match” with any
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Possible third Duke lacrosse indictment
ABC News is reporting that a third lacrosse player may be indicted based on a partial identification and a partial DNA match — not exactly convincing evidence: Prosecutors believe they have DNA evidence to tie a third Duke lacrosse player to the alleged attack of a 27-year-old exotic dancer, sources close to the investigation tell
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Did Duke accuser change her allegation?
Yesterday, I posted about the stunning claim in a Duke report that the accuser in the lacrosse rape case initially said twenty men raped her. Since then, this claim has come into serious question. In the initial Durham Herald Sun report from yesterday morning, City Manager Patrick Baker and District Attorney Mike Nifong deny the
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Report that Duke accuser claimed twenty men raped her
Somehow I failed to notice this explosive information from the latest report on the Duke lacrosse incident: The day after the March 13 team party where a 27-year-old black woman claimed she was raped, Durham police told campus officers that “this will blow over,” the report said. The woman initially told police she was raped
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Conservative bestseller contest winner: Godless
A couple of weeks ago, I announced a contest to name the next conservative bestseller. The key is to leverage some powerful pejorative term like fascism, treason, slander, etc. It’s time to announce a winner: Ann Coulter! She just announced that her latest book is titled Godless: The Church of Liberalism. How can my readers
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Durham police questioned accuser’s credibility
Today a committee appointed by Duke President Richard Brodhead released a report (PDF) on the administration’s response to the alleged lacrosse team rape. The conclusion, not surprisingly, is that the administration failed to move quickly enough to address the situation — in part because it took a shocking ten days for the administration that the
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The “Bush is not a conservative” defense
I’m fascinated by Jonah Goldberg’s move to try sever conservatism’s fate from that of President Bush by arguing that the President is not a conservative: [T]here is one area where we can make somewhat useful comparisons between Nixon and Bush: their status as liberal Republicans… Bush is certainly to the right of Nixon on many
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USA Today/Gallup poll on Duke lacrosse
Did you know USA Today/Gallup polled the Duke lacrosse case? I didn’t. Here’s a summary of their findings from the poll, which was conducted April 28-30 with a nationally representative sample: Women are significantly more likely than men to say the charges that two Duke University lacrosse players sexually assaulted a woman at a March
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Two site search options: Google and Rollyo
Two months after being deleted from Google, I’m back in their index, although I only have about fifty pages indexed. In other search-related news, I added a Rollyo site search box to the left sidebar. To search this site, just click on the pulldown menu that says “Select Search Engine” and choose “Search brendan-nyhan.com.” It