Moran claims that Reade Seligman, Collin Finnerty and David Evans received special treatment because:
They were part of a team that collected $800 to purchase the time of two strippers.
Their team specifically requested at least one white stripper.
During the incident, racial epithets were hurled at the strippers.
Colin Finnerty was charged with assault in Washington, DC, in 2005.
The young men were able to retain a battery of top-flight attorneys, investigators and media strategists.
As students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young men will get on with their privileged lives. There is a very large cushion under them–the one that softens the blows of life for most of those who go to Duke or similar places, and have connections through family, friends and school to all kinds of prospects for success. They are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.
Where in that list is there anything that even qualifies as special treatment. They hired attorneys, just as is the right of every individual in this country. What difference does it matter how much money Moran assumes they come from? It doesn’t. And what does the Rutgers team have to do with this? Nothing. They were not arrested were they?
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He’s not known as Terry Moron for nothing. This idiot must have graduated from the Dan Rather school of “smear them” journalism. But what do you expect from ABC and its ties to the Clinton Administration?
So Terry Moron can join the Jesse HiJackson and Al Sharpton team of idiots. At least Sharpton and Jackson have an angle, a resson (profit). What’s Terry Moron’s angle? Is he just a volunteer idiot? Hoping to grab some headlines, even if it is as a buffoon?
They sure did get special treatment because they were (supposedly) rich white boys from Duke. I say supposedly because at least one was there on a full scholarship and could’ve never afforded it otherwise. Their special treatment included being charged with crimes they could not have committed, had their names drug through the press on numerous occasions, incurred probably over a million dollars in legal fees, had their reputations tarnished irreparably, their lives interrupted for over a year, and one lost a lucrative job offer. WHY? Because a Democratic Prosecuting attorney wanted to show the black community that he was going to be tough on them even without investigating to determine if a crime had actually occurred. Nyfong has earned himself a place in history, much the same as Dr.Mudd did following the assassination of Lincoln. The difference is that Mudd was simply setting a broken leg for an unknown patient who happened to be John Wilkes Boothe, Nyfong deliberately and with malice aforethought did willfully indict and attempt to prosecute three innocent young men despite knowing that he had evidence that proved their innocence which he also withheld from the defense. He then used his ability to delay the trial indefinitely in an attempt to force the three to confess to a plea bargain for a crime they did not commit. Does anyone really think that the trial in this case was put off all of this time for no reason? Nyfong can apologize all that he wants, but he can shred his law license. Those three young men have every right to take everything that he owns or will ever own after this stunt and the NC Bar should strip him of his license permanently. His actions were inexcusable.
Sometimes innocent people get mixed up with the bad guys. It happens in North Carolina; and it happens in Afghanistan and Iraq.
At least these guys could get lawyers and maintain their rights; even if it took a while.
The issue of having money in order to retain good lawyers and private investigators definitely was what saved these kids from prison terms. If all those kids had to rely on for a defense were public defenders, they would all be serving 20-year sentences.
Another point he is making is that kids contributed to the eventual troubles by creating the circumstances leading up to it. Yeah, yeah, I know, they’re college kids, what do you expect? Hopefully they learned something about personal responsibility after going through this.
I don’t like the way Terry formed his arguments because he bounces around and it reads like sloppy writing, but his points are valid observations.
I don’t like the way Terry formed his arguments because he bounces around and it reads like sloppy writing, but his points are valid observations
Great point TT. The only thing you didn’t touch on is the Rutgers team though…were they arrested? Cause last time I checked, they were not arrested, but were actually put in the middle of a debate in his country, where they are on the receiving end of much sympathy and praise..big difference here….I also couldn’t help but wonder if he thought because they were black that they were poor.
As FAO points out the Duke 3 surely did recieve special treatment because they were white and not poor. They were the victims of Mike Nifong, who misused his office and position in using them for political purposes.
If all those kids had to rely on for a defense were public defenders, they would all be serving 20-year sentences.
You must be joking. 20 years? 20 years based on what? What are the charges? Based on what evidence? The accuser has told multiple versions of her story. She is absolutely unreliable, and there is zero evidence to back up any of her stories. There is evidence that exonerates the accused.
So all public defenders are incompetent fools or tools of the system? Have you any firsthand knowledge in this area?
Your statement is the kind of nonsense that gets thrown out so easily in these kind of discussions, then just becomes part of the culture. Then ends up becoming part of the knowledge base for so many people that have no other knowledge of the situation. It is one of the many reasons this society is in such turmoil.
ANY competent attorney, Public Defender or otherwise, would’ve stuck by these kids and not allowed them to plea bargain as soon as the Reade Seligman atm photos became available. Those photos and his Cell phone records absolutely cleared him of any wrongdoing and should’ve been grounds to have the entire case dropped against him if not all three.
This kind of comment is the reason why the US military Judge Advocate General corps is set up the way that it is. New attornies can be prosecutors but they don’t get to be defense attornies until they have a few years experience under their belts. That’s one thing that was wrong with the movie “A Few Good Men”. Tom Cruise would’ve had to have been on the prosecution side for a few years before being allowed to defend anyone.
This “Constitutional” coward liked putting the innocent “Dukies” at the front of his broadcasts night after night until he thought they were certainly lynched in public opinion (if not a court of law). Now he not only continues in lynching mode, but he blocks an every once in awhile bump on his own blog to fire him for his racist, cowardly, pro-media lynching comments. Petition ABC to fire Terry Moran now:
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/FireTerryMoran
Last night I saw the Duke Lacrosse team beat Virgina to take the top spot in the ACC. It was 7-6 in overtime. A great game.
Maybe Terry Moron ought to be put on a Lacrosse field and let the two teams nail him?