If these women were afraid for their safety, as they say they were, you think they would have stuck together, or, at least, that the second woman would have had some degree of awareness of what was going on.

Given the nature of the profession, they are around rowdy types a lot it would seem. There is money to be made and they wouldn’t want to anger their company. Plus, the second stripper was new to this and basically following the alleged victim’s lead; there were many men in that small house, that sort of environment could make it harder than it seems to “be aware” of what is going on with the other woman at every turn.

I would be interested in hearing what she has to say about the timeline the media has constructed from the defense’s photos, and whether she disputes that,

The defense can’t even decide what their photos show. First, they showed the alleged victim arriving battered and staggering. People questioned how, if that were true, she would have been able to dance. Then people viewed said photos and either said nothing about bruises and the like, or mentioned the alleged victim was laying flat on her back on the porch, with a cut on her ankle. The second dancer said she hadn’t noticed any bruises when they arrived and that, in fact, the woman was quite fine. So, oops, the defense changed it, “she acquired the bruises from falling on the back porch” (which apparently only shows a cut ankle or something).

Then of course you have the finger-nails: she is shown doing her nails as she comes up the steps, which explains why they are laying on the floor in the bathroom. Of course anybody who wears fake nails will understand how that makes no sense. So then they say a photo shows nails missing (since, you know, now they understand it doesn’t make sense to paint your real nails and then put on fake ones. Or to put on fake ones with that superglue and then rip them off in a bathroom) while she is dancing.

This woman’s substantial interest in currying Nifong’s favor by telling him what he wants to hear also can’t be ignored. I can’t see her doing very much to buttress or corroborate the accuser’s reconstruction of the events of that night.

Well, that’s really the thing, isn’t it? She hasn’t said anything incriminating, she has only changed her opinion on what may have gone on because of the spin and media-whoring the defense is doing. Her comments about the broom and racist slurs have corroborated the alleged victim’s, and that is it. If she were so intent on “currying Nifong’s favor”, she would have introduced something incriminating. She hasn’t. As she said, “I don’t want anybody innocent to go to jail” and “if somebody didn’t do it, they should relax and brush off their shoulders”. That attitude isn’t reflected by the defense, who by this time would have typically gone to the DA, shown that “hard evidence”, gotten a dismissal and/or a speedy trial. Or if they tried, would have whored it to the media like they have everything else. If the defense cares so much about “these boys”, they would have done more to get the indictment dismissed on the man they say an air-tight alibi exists for or tried and let us know it didn’t work.

and also, whether she was outside the house at 12:15-12:20, when the cab driver pulled up, and what she was doing.

You mean the cab-driver who pulled up and heard a male voice shout, “she’s only a stripper!”? Gee, I wonder what the DA is doing for him?

Woot. It’s a twofer deal then. Two lying women for the price of on worthless whore.

/sarcasm

I’m more inclined to disbelieve the women than the evidence.

/sarcasm

If these women were afraid for their safety, as they say they were, you think they would have stuck together, or, at least, that the second woman would have had some degree of awareness of what was going on.

This woman’s substantial interest in currying Nifong’s favor by telling him what he wants to hear also can’t be ignored. I can’t see her doing very much to buttress or corroborate the accuser’s reconstruction of the events of that night.

I would be interested in hearing what she has to say about the timeline the media has constructed from the defense’s photos, and whether she disputes that, and also, whether she was outside the house at 12:15-12:20, when the cab driver pulled up, and what she was doing.

Roberts drove herself to the party and said she could have left anytime, but she said, “I didn’t want to leave her with them.”

Roberts then drove the accuser — whom she had just met that night — to a grocery store and asked a security guard to call 911. The accuser was described later by a police officer as “just passed-out drunk.”

Roberts said the woman was sober when they arrived at the house. But by the time the party was over, she said the accuser was too incoherent to tell her where she lived, let alone that she had been raped.

“I didn’t do enough,” she said, tears welling in her eyes. “I didn’t do enough. I didn’t do enough.”

Other than lacrosse players and the accuser, a 27-year-old student at a nearby university, Roberts is believed to be the only other person at the March 13 party.

Roberts said Thursday she does not remember Seligmann’s face, but said she recalls seeing Finnerty — whom she described as the “little skinny one.”

“I was looking him right in the eyes,” she said.

Although she would not talk extensively about the party, she confirmed some of what the other dancer told police — including that the women initially left the party after one of the players threatened to sodomize the women with a broomstick.

The players’ attorneys have said their clients were angry and demanded a refund when the women stopped dancing, but Roberts disputed that.

“They ripped themselves off when they started hollering about a broomstick,” she said.

Holy.Shit.