Thursday, September 13, 2018

Honest Reporter, Who Helped Expose the Duke Rape Hoax, Exposed New Attempt to Revive the Hoax

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix

Joe Neff is a veteran reporter at the News & Observer, of Raleigh, North Carolina. He covered the hoax as it unfolded. I am reprinting his review of Vanity Fair “reporter” William D. Cohan’s 650-page-long attempt to revive the hoax from Free Republic, because the original link to the N&O has gone to Internet heaven.

That Vanity Fair and Scribner’s would pay big bucks to a fraud like William D. Cohan reflects terribly on them.

David in TN’s review of Cohan’s thing;

Nicholas Stix’ report on the Duke Rape Hoax; and

The WSJ’s Dorothy Rabinowitz’ Review of Cohan’s Thing.


Book Review: “The Price of Silence” Only Tells One Side of Duke Lacrosse Scandal (DukeLax)
The (Raleigh, NC) News & Observer ^ | April 20, 2014 | Joseph Neff
Posted on 4/20/2014, 3:10:32 PM by abb
Free Republic

The Duke lacrosse case was a spectacular scandal – a cause célèbre that had the country abuzz about race, class and gender. Three wealthy Duke students, all of them white, were charged with raping a poor black woman during a spring break party at a scruffy rental house in Durham.

Then the whole mess imploded in real time, in the national media, due to prosecutorial misconduct.

North Carolina, of all places in America, was perhaps the most fertile soil for a case that ended with the state attorney general declaring the three players innocent and state regulators disbarring the prosecutor, Mike Nifong.

In the years before “Nifong” became a synonym for railroading, North Carolina had witnessed several death-penalty cases in which prosecutors had withheld exculpatory evidence. The legislature responded with an open file discovery law requiring prosecutors to share their entire file. In two cases, the N.C. State Bar had botched disciplinary proceedings against the prosecutors. The resulting uproar led to serious changes in how the bar conducted high-profile discipline cases.

In the lacrosse case, Nifong faced the very defense lawyers who opened the prosecution files and forced changes at the bar.

You won’t find this history in “The Price of Silence.” Instead, author William D. Cohan opts for an apology for Nifong and, by extension, prosecutors who hide evidence and lie to judges.

The 653-page book mostly rehashes previous reporting. What is new is Nifong speaking for the first time about the case. Nifong makes remarkable claims that the author – clearly sympathetic, if not besotted – fails to challenge or test.

Nifong claims the prosecutor who took over the case was “sandbagged” when the attorney general later declared the players innocent; Cohan could have proven that claim false had he tried to interview the prosecutor, garrulous and blunt-speaking Jim Coman, who was adamant about declaring the players innocent.

Nifong claims he’s pretty sure he never told told his campaign manager that the national headlines were millions of dollars of free advertisement. Cohan never contacted the campaign manager, the very accessible Jackie Brown.

Nifong claims the State Bar’s disciplinary committee chairman concluded he was guilty before Nifong ever testified. Cohan never tried to talk with Lane Williamson, the chairman.

Nifong claimed the judge who jailed him for a day had told friends beforehand that he planned on convicting Nifong of contempt of court. Cohan made no attempt to interview Judge W. Osmond Smith.

These would be pathetic mistakes for a daily newspaper story. For an author spending months or years on a book, it’s a revealing choice to avoid interviews that contradict the revisionist narrative: that Nifong is the victim.

Cohan declares the charge that Nifong withheld exculpatory evidence a “red herring.” Let’s review that. Nifong repeatedly told judges he had produced all the DNA evidence. He hadn’t: He and a lab director conspired not to report rape kit test results showing that the accuser had DNA from four unknown men. The tests were sensitive enough to register a wisp of DNA from the lab director, and yet the rape kit produced not a single particle of DNA from those accused of a brutal gang rape.

Under a judge’s order, Nifong produced 1,800 pages of laboratory hieroglyphics. One lawyer had the sitzfleisch to decode the hieroglyphics and discover the unreported test results. Under oath, the lab director confessed to the conspiracy to hide test results.

Nifong’s most extraordinary claim: The lacrosse team is to blame for the scandal by exercising their constitutional right to legal counsel before giving DNA samples to the police. This is a frightening claim from a former district attorney, a position with more power over individuals than virtually any other public office.

Joseph Neff covered the Duke lacrosse case for The News & Observer.

Neff: 919-829-4516

Read more here:

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/04/19/3794091/book-review-the-price-of-silence.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy



5 comments:

  1. One more thing. When one of the detectives told Nifong early on there was no DNA evidence linking the lacrosse players to the accuser, Nifong said "We're f*****!"

    Nifong then went on every TV show that would have him ranting "They're a bunch of hooligans! It was racially motivated! Why did they hire lawyers if they're innocent!" Nifong went overdrive on the Hoax upon realizing there was no physical evidence at all.

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  2. A LESSER HOAX BY BLACKS IN SUBURBAN GRAND RAPIDS.
    GRA:Over the last 9 days,in the wake of the white man accused of urinating on black kids (proved false),the local media has been more than interested in another black vs white case.As it turned out,it was another black hoax against a white family and their dog.
    Here's the initial report from 9 days ago,
    WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — A 4-year-old(black) girl may need plastic surgery after she was reportedly attacked by a dog while walking to the park.

    The incident happened Monday afternoon in the 2000 block of Greenfield Avenue SW south of Chicago Drive in Wyoming. The victim’s family says she was walking to nearby Lamar Park with her mother and others when the dog jumped over the fence at its home and attacked her.

    Wyoming police said family members initially didn't realize the child had an injury but soon saw blood on her pants. They discovered she had a significant bite wound to her genital area and rushed her to an area medical center.

    "They said they couldn't do anything for her because the cut was so deep,” the girl’s mother Lareatrice Hayes told 24 Hour News 8 Tuesday.

    Family members said the victim, London Ewing, was placed under anesthesia and had to undergo surgery and get stitches. Doctors have referred the child to a plastic surgeon, who will determine if another operation is necessary.

    On Tuesday afternoon, after getting another complaint that the dog had gotten loose, Kent County Animal Control quarantined the dog for 10 days. After more investigating, the county will determine whether to ask a judge to take further action.

    The dog’s owner(white) Morgan Gibson said the animal is a bullmastiff-boxer mix. She said the dog is aggressive but has never attempted to harm a child. Gibson said she was there when the dog approached the victim and her family and is certain the dog didn't bite the girl.
    --GRA:The conclusion by the Kent County Medical Examiner follows(the dog didn't do it).
    --GR Anonymous

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  3. DOG NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUPPOSED INJURIES.BLACKS DISAPPEAR AFTERWARDS.
    GRA:This was obviously a scam thought up by blacks against their white neighbors.
    WYOMING, Mich. (WOOD) — The Kent County medical director has determined a dog blamed for injuries to a little girl may not be responsible.

    The decision was made public on Thursday and means that the dog can be released to his family.

    A bullmastiff-boxer mix named Tucker has been locked up for the past nine days because of a claim that he attacked a 4-year-old girl who lives next door.

    The girl was taken to the emergency room last week after her family noticed blood on her pants, where family members said she had to undergo surgery and get stitches.

    The dog’s owner Morgan Gibson said she was outside when her dog jumped the fence, and that he didn’t attack the girl.

    "She ran into the road, he did a little U-turn around her," said Gibson. "By the time he finished the circle I grabbed him ... Hours went by before they reported anything, anything could have happened. She could have hurt herself at the park."

    Wyoming police originally said the child’s injuries were consistent with a dog bite, so the case was turned over to animal control as part of standard procedures. On Thursday, the Kent County Health Department’s medical director determined there isn’t sufficient evidence to determine if the dog caused the injuries.

    Because of the lack of clarity, Wyoming police will re-examine the case to see if there is “cause for further action.”

    24 Hour News 8 attempted to contact the family of the child involved in the alleged incident, but nobody responded.(GRA:How about that?)

    Tucker will be released to his family on Friday. The Gibson's say they can't wait.

    "I also have a 4-year-old girl who is wondering where her best friend went. But I hope they find out what happened to her," said Gibson.

    Because the county couldn't determine if the dog attacked the girl, the Gibson’s have until 5 p.m. Friday to pay for Tucker’s release, or the dog will be put down.
    GRA:Just another example of blacks trying to perpetrate a fraud.As theorized,the black girl probably injured herself at the park,came back home,concocted the dog story with the mother in an attempt to hit a small lawsuit.Very similar to the urination case in that,the black kid thought up a lie that had major consequences for a white person or family.
    You can never believe a blackie.
    --GR Anonymous-I'm a white man

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  4. The Big Lie. Just repeat the Big Lie over and over and it will be believed. And if not believed in totality the thought will be that "something" happened. Whatever that was.

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  5. A slight correction.The black mother and child must have been complicit in dreaming up this racist story against the white family.The mother was with the child all the time at the park,where the injury must have occurred.This is not similar to the other story I referred to.Big difference.
    --GRA

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