Duke lax parents on Fox

Charles and Susan Wolcott, parents of a Duke grad and player on the 2006 Men's lacrosse team were guests on Hannity & Colmes tonight.

Locomotive Breath sent along a link to a youtube item:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4jRDv0hc58

How'd the parent's do?

IMO very well.

Alan Colmes asked them about the treatment the suspect just arrested and charged in connection with the rape of a Duke student is receiving vis a vis the treatment DA Mike Nifong, certain Durham police officers and the Durham Courts meted out to the Duke Men's lacrosse players.

The parents agreed it showed an "absurd double standard."

Mr. Wolcott said with regard to this most recent case: "Durham police [are] following prescribed procedure. The Durham DA is not involved."

I hope the police start to make a habit of that. Maybe the city council or Mayor Bell could do something to encourage DPD to keep "following prescribed procedure."

As for the "DA is not involved:" Well, there aren't any votes for him in this case.

Besides, he's busy preparing for his hearing before the State Bar on ethics charges.

Ms. Wolcott said: " We have a [Duke lax] case where there is no evidence.

You're right, Mom.

That's why Nifong and his primary helpers had to, on the one hand, work so hard to manufacture incriminating evidence, and on the other hand, drive all the way to Burlington to arrange with a co-conspirator to hide exculpatory DNA evidence proving your son and all the other players were innocent of Crystal Mangum and Mike Nifong's false charges.

One of the segment's two most powerful moments: "There was a lottery to choose any three players. Any one of them could have been picked, including our son."

That's precisely the point Duke Law professor James Coleman made on June 13 when he wrote:

"Thus, the police not only failed to include people they knew were not suspects among the photographs shown the woman, they told the witness in effect that there would be no such "fillers" among the photographs she would see.

This strongly suggests that the purpose of the identification process was to give the alleged victim an opportunity to pick three members of the lacrosse team who could be charged. Any three students would do; there could be no wrong choice.

The other most powerful moment:” We are looking forward to justice."

I think we can get some justice out of a series of conspiracies by criminals and enablement of their criminal conduct by many in media, at Duke and in Durham.

But it's still going to take a lot of work.

So let's keep at it, folks.

Nifong and others need to go to jail.

Brodhead and many of "Dick's team" need to be gone ASAP. Some new trustees wouldn't hurt, either.

The Raleigh News & Observer needs to publish on page one a number of apologies and it's deliberately malicious March 25 anonymous interview story needs to be retracted.

Hopefully, civil suits will tell Durham citizens much more than we presently know about how so many of our public officials enabled the frame-up.

That knowledge may provide the impetus to change "the crowd" that's run things in Durham for more than 20 years.

The Wolcotts were excellent justice advocates.