🚀 go-pugleaf

rarcher@acpub.duke.edu (Ron Archer) wrote:

>Hopefully, the raving nasty who had already convicted
>and sentenced that "scumbag" Donald Clark, son of two
>Duke doctors, for rape and kidnapping, will think 
>twice the next time.  DNA and semen sample tests have
>conclusively ruled him out as a suspect.
>
>I'm ashamed to think that either Donald or his parents
>may have seen that raving nastiness in several messages
>in this group and that I never expressed my outrage with
>such a rush to judgment in the complete absence of any
>facts.  How sad.  Hopefully, he can now get on with his
>life and those eager to string Donald Clark up will
>crawl back under their rocks.

I don't think anyone CONVICTED him. The primary focus of the string was 
the simple discussion of whether his amount of bail and his "house 
arrest" were the norms for the SERIOUS offenses that he was charged with 
committing...like whether the same amount of bail and the house arrest 
would have been imposed on him if he was a black male having been charged 
with the same offense, OR, imposed on him were both of his parents either 
blue collar workers or on welfare.

That is how I remember the thread...I don't recall ANYONE having said he 
did it. And, that having been said now, all can now see what EXCULPATORY 
DNA evidence ELIMINATES suspects and clearly demonstrates that EYEWITNESS 
identification is flawed at best and incorrect quite frequently.

A more disturbing point is that we still have a rapist hanging around out 
there.


Dave