You know, I thought that things like publicly airing pictures that will be used in testimony later on is supposed to be a legal no-no, but apparently, Dan Abrams of MSNBC's "The Abrams Report" thinks it's OK.
NBC has obtained exclusive photos that defense lawyers for the Duke University lacrosse players feel will exonerate their clients of rape charges.
Dan Abrams, a Duke graduate and former lawyer who now hosts "The Abrams Report" on MSNBC, said he has copies of a series of photos lacrosse team players said they took at the party.
Finnerty appears in none of the photos, Abrams said, which bolsters defense attorneys' claims that the teen wasn't at the party when the alleged rape occurred.
Although Seligmann was in some photos, defense attorneys said the have records from a cab company, ATM receipts and other information with which they can prove he left the party before the alleged rape took place.
The photos help establish a timeline for the events at the party, Abrams said.
Some photos taken before midnight show the players partying before the accuser and another dancer arrived. No photos were taken between 12:10 a.m. and 12:30 a.m., but the dancer is pictured in several shots taken between 12:31 a.m. and 12:41 a.m. in which she was smiling and getting into a car, Abrams said.
"You could argue that something might have happened in that period between 12:10 and 12:30. The defense would say, though, that because she's smiling in the photo taken at 12:31, it would be hard to believe that she had been brutally raped," he said.
Abrams said it was "certainly possible" that the woman had been given a date-rape drug by someone at the party. But he said there has been no evidence to support that claim.
The photos also bolster the defense claims by what they don't show, Abrams said.
What the hell? I thought this kind of crap isn't allowed? So where's the punishment for the defense attorneys? Can these photos even be admitted as evidence now that the public has seen them?
I don't even have to question how Abrams obtained the photos. I think "Duke graduate" speaks for itself, don't you?
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.
If you must see the photo in question, The Drudge Report has a very big picture of her in the middle of the news. Don't know how long it will remain there, though.
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