Attorney in Duke Lacrosse Case Dies

[MaineDem]

Source: MSNBC/AP

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - Kirk Osborn, a lead defense attorney in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case, died early Sunday, a fellow defense attorney in the case said.

Osborn had a massive heart attack on Friday and died shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday, attorney Joe Cheshire said.

Osborn represented Reade Seligmann, one of three Duke lacrosse players charged in the case stemming from a dancer's allegation she was sexually assaulted at a team party. The players were originally indicted on charges of rape, sexual offense and kidnapping, but Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong dropped the rape charges in December after the accuser changed a key detail in her story.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17787281/

[Frogger]

1. The Duke rape case

is falling apart, and should never have been brought. Nifong and the accuser are utter discredits to the human race. I sure wish he had been a Republican, but I guess it just goes to show that there are evil persons on both sides of the political divide. One side has more of them, though.

[Solo_in_MD]

3. Have to wonder when the 88 are going to apologize or update their public position

The damage was not just to the 3 players or the just the Lacrosse team

[Frogger]

9. They're not.

If they cared anything about right and wrong, they would never have done what they did to begin with. It was all politics to them. Expect an apology from Cheney and Rove first.

[Solo_in_MD]

10. Sad to see that behavior from what is presumably our side

[IndianaGreen]

4. In Reade Seligmann's case, it is clearly an example of prosecutorial misconduct

and of a witness of questionable credibility. It was the Seligmann case that convinced me that at least one defendant was completely innocent and wrongfully prosecuted.

Actions by Osborn in the case included a motion with phone records and security camera images showing Seligmann would have been nearly a mile away from the Durham house at the time the woman said he was taking part in the attack.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17787281

[struggle4progress]

7. AG's office denies lacrosse case is dead

By BriAnne Dopart : The Herald-Sun
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Mar 23, 2007 : 12:03 am ET

DURHAM -- Despite a blogger's bold announcement to a national audience Thursday that special prosecutors might kill the Duke lacrosse case investigation today, the state Attorney General's Office said that is not true ...

"Our review of the case, including reviewing documents and conducting interviews, is still under way at this point and no decision has been made," she said ...

http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-832212.cfm

[Solo_in_MD]

2. Is it bad that when I first read this I hoped it was Nifong...and was glad

[IndianaGreen]

5. Nifong will probably get disbarred this year

when his case comes up.

[Solo_in_MD]

6. Will it make him personally liable for his acts of bad faith while in office. He needs to pay

[Big Pappa]

8. Which

come be none to soon. I wonder how many women who have been truly assaulted will not report it now that this kind of slime ball(Nifong) almost had his way.