DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Duke University police searched a dorm room after a woman said a fellow student raped her following an end-of-classes party last week.
Authorities said the investigation wasn't related to an exotic dancer's allegations that she was raped and beaten by three men at an off-campus party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team in March.
On Wednesday, police searched a male student's dorm for photos, videotapes, cameras, drugs and women's clothing. A search warrant application said they were investigating allegations of second-degree forcible rape, possession of controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
No charges have been filed, but authorities collected DNA samples from the woman and the man she says attacked her. The accuser said the man walked her to her room after the April 26 party and had sex without her consent, police said.
The man told police he walked the woman to her room and helped her get into bed, but denied raping her. The man's lawyer, Steve Sitkoff
of Los Angeles, said there was "zero truth to the allegations."
Investigators said the woman had consumed a large amount of alcohol at the party and that someone had rigged a vaporizer to spew marijuana smoke into the room.
Duke spokesman John Burness said he couldn't comment on an ongoing investigation.
Earlier this week, faculty reports called for action to combat alcohol abuse at the university. Studies conducted amid the lacrosse scandal found that Duke's ambivalence toward drinking made it difficult to deal with the issue.
Authorities said the investigation wasn't related to an exotic dancer's allegations that she was raped and beaten by three men at an off-campus party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team in March.
On Wednesday, police searched a male student's dorm for photos, videotapes, cameras, drugs and women's clothing. A search warrant application said they were investigating allegations of second-degree forcible rape, possession of controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
No charges have been filed, but authorities collected DNA samples from the woman and the man she says attacked her. The accuser said the man walked her to her room after the April 26 party and had sex without her consent, police said.
The man told police he walked the woman to her room and helped her get into bed, but denied raping her. The man's lawyer, Steve Sitkoff
of Los Angeles, said there was "zero truth to the allegations."Investigators said the woman had consumed a large amount of alcohol at the party and that someone had rigged a vaporizer to spew marijuana smoke into the room.
Duke spokesman John Burness said he couldn't comment on an ongoing investigation.
Earlier this week, faculty reports called for action to combat alcohol abuse at the university. Studies conducted amid the lacrosse scandal found that Duke's ambivalence toward drinking made it difficult to deal with the issue.
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Noname I think it’s pretty safe to say that the stripper wasn’t raped.
Chuckles Maybe Nifong should lead a massive search throughout the east coast of every fake-mustache store if anyone had a customer wearing a Duke Lacrosse uniform.
Ismone The "rape kit" showed evidence of a recent sexual activity. She had sex with her boyfriend before or after the party, which would explain the "evidence".
Ismone In defense of noname, no one wishes anyone to be raped, but if she lied, she deserves to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law on 46 counts for each lacrosse player she lied about.
Ismone “No contrary evidence is presented” This whole case if full of contrary evidence. Why you ignore it is another issue. I suspect the stripper could come right out and say that she made the whole thing up, and you’d stillinsist that she was raped. People like you don’t care about evidence.
A grand jury conviction is not hard to get, all you need is to say I need an indictment.
It is impossible that a crime scene with three drunk men in a small enclosed room with a fighting and clawing woman being orally, virginally, and anally penetrated not leave any DNA evidence of urine, blood, vaginal fluid, seat, fecal matter, scat smears, saliva, tears, or semen... especially if condoms were used. How would they take off the condoms during all this chaos without spilling, smearing, or touching the content inside or outside of the condom?
Ismone You really should think before ranting about things you know nothing about. It makes you look like an idiot.
I'm tired of hearing about "white male privilege. It's female privilege that allows these boys' lives to be destroyed with only the word of a drunken stripper with a long criminal history and a pattern of making false accusations.
"I was raped" is just as good proof as "I was robbed." Again Isome, you expose yourself to be an idiot. You can accuse anybody with what ever you want. It doesn’t mean it’s true. One woman claimed that she felt sexually harassed because a man wore a fanny pack to work. The police refused to charge the man, so she proceeded to sue her workplace in civil court… it was thrown out. Saying “someone robbed me”, like any claim, must be proven in court. Just because someone accuses a crime occurred, doesn’t mean it happened – Deal with it Ismone! Just like in the Duke Rape Scandal. She obviously lied.
These boys are innocent! The drunken black stripper with the long criminal record and history of making false accusations...lied.
• Stripper made a false claim of rape by three boys in 1996.
• Stripper made a false claim of kidnapping in 1998
• Stripper charged with larceny, auto theft, and trying to kill a police officer in 2002
• 1st round of DNA shows no link to the lacrosse team.
• 2nd round of DNA shows no link to the lacrosse team
• DNA proves stripper had sex with boyfriend/pimp which accounts for the “rape kit” evidence of recent sexual activity.
• Innocent boy who picked up finger nail and threw it in the trash left his DNA on the fake press-on nail and will be charged for rape.
The stripper’s account of the night has serious integrity issues:
First she claimed 20 boys raped her, then she narrowed it down to 3 in a bathroom
a. The bathroom is absolutely and completely devoid of any evidence of a rape. Where is her DNA? Urine, blood, vaginal fluid, saliva, or tears?
b. Many people’s DNA were found under her nails but none from the innocent lacrosse boys.
c. She lied about losing her fake finger nails in a desperate struggle in the small enclosed bathroom, but pictures show that she removed her nails before inadequately performing her routine. No scratches were found on any of the innocent lacrosse boys’ bodies.
d. The 2 innocent boys she “eeny meeny miney moed” to be her rapists weren’t even at the party the time she claimed the rape occurred. She claims that she’s 100% sure, but she told her father that she’s not sure.
e. She took drugs before coming to the house, something illegal.
The stripper obviously lied, and she’s putting these innocent boys and families through hell. She deserves to be in prison for the rest of her pathetic life. She is worthless as a person and human being. Her one lie destroyed innocent boys. I hope her and Nifong’s aura catches up to them and they both get what they deserve. I hope everyone wishing this rape claim to be true, in spite of all the evidence that it never occurred, gets what’s coming to them.
Mac Dive’s weak argument DNA proves a crime couldn’t have occurred the was the lying stripper claimed.
Fact DNA wasn’t found under the fingernail, it was found on the top surface of the nail.
Mac Dive’s weak argument • A forensic examination of the victim found evidence consistent with rape.
Fact All the rape kit showed is that the stripper had recent evidence f sexual 1ntercourse, it can’t tell when or if it was consensual, but now we know through conclusive DNA evidence that she had sex with her boyfriend.
Mac Dive’s weak argument • Motive, means and opportunity for the accused to have raped the alleged victim exist.
Fact This is true only if the stripper was in three places at once, at the house with the first guy, at the bank machine with the second guy, and in the dorm room with the third guy.
Mac Dive’s weak argument • Photo identification of the suspects without prompting.
Fact The photo line up was of only the lacrosse team to guarantee only lacrosse team members were chosen. It seams DA Nifong didn’t believe she would pick only lacrosse players either, so he fixed it so she did.
Mac Dive’s weak argument • Linking to DNA from a suspect previously identified with 90 percent accuracy.
Fact She was 90% sure except for the mustache, the third guy never had a mustache, so it makes it 0% sure.
• A pubic hair was found on the alleged victim that may be found to be consistent with the pubic hair of one of the suspects.
Fact The hair in question is not linked to the lacrosse boys, it could be from her boyfriend or previous clients.
Mac Dive’s weak argument If evidence of either high alcohol content or the date rape drug has been found in toxicology exams that too will favor the prosecution.
Fact The stripper is a drug abuser and alcoholic. How would a drunk stripper having multiple sex that night remember who she consented to sex and if sex ever happen? No date rape drugs were found in the innocent boy’s possession. This lie was made up by desperate feminists and lame women who hope the black stripper was raped. The Stripper has a long history of drug abuse, she probably took the illegal drugs herself.
Mac Dive’s weak argument (Kim Roberts says the lacrosse players plied the alleged victim with drink.)
Fact Kim Roberts initially said that a rape never happened. After getting arrested and threatened with jail, she copped a deal with the prosecution to not have her probation revoked, and said a rape did occur, then she contacted a Public Relations firm telling them :”I don’t want to let this opportunity pass me by” “How can I spin this to my advantage”. The she stated in the press, “Why shouldn’t I profit from this scandal? I have a child at home.” Ms. Roberts, like many who claim this rape occurred, is not a reliable source.
Mac Dive’s weak argument Instead of being misled by babbling about the dancers painting their nails in the bathroom, keep your eye on the actual evidence. That is what will matter in the end.
Fact This is the only thing I agree with Ms. Mac Dive. Practice what you preach. Stop babbling and look at the evidence…
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