when it comes to charging suspects, rape, particularily sexual assualt, is very often a he said/she said situation.

there is no murder weapon. there is no paper trail. it’s usually pathetic evidence, as even DNA doesn’t always tell the full-story.

in my opinion, the only reason this case wasn’t he said/she said was because an entire team of peers was at the scene of the alleged crime and people have been pointing at her character while dismissing their degree of participation in the party in the first place.

you know, kinda like in high school where the sexually active girl is a slut, while the guy is considered a stud — except if he paid for it.

now, convince me that due diligence for pressing charges would’ve taken 36 days in any other situation.

all i’m saying is that without the high powered attorneys, the teammates keeping quiet and the pointing at her character, charges would’ve been brought earlier and these guys would’ve been swept off the street.

not found guilty and sentenced mind you — their guilt would then (as with now) have to be proven in a court of law just like anyone else.

One of the boys seems to have a pretty good alibi. Plus the evidence does not match her story.

OTOH the woman in question seems to have been a very troubled person. Probably molested as a child as is quite common for women in her line of work.

Women in her line of work due to past abuse often turn to Heroin.

Which might explain her quick incapacitation.

When this is all resolved I hope she gets the help she needs.

Without any regard to guilt or innocence, you want them arrested. The DA has a responsibility to build a case with evidence and to go where that evidence leads, not to give into the mob mentality of an enraged communitty with an axe to grind.

Regardless of what color these boys were or what their position was they should not have been arrested with such pathetic evidence.

It is sad that you think they should be chained and paraded before the citizens of Durham like a mob of peasents waving torches and pitchforks and baying for blood.

Past grievences of a people or communitty has no bearing on determining the guild or innocence of anyone accused of a crime.

I can see it now, “racist DA perpetuates black rape myth.” And of course the nails were planted by a racist cop, “If the nails don’t clip you must acquit.”