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Police try to question Duke players about party
By Wire services
Published April 15, 2006
DURHAM, N.C. - Police tried to interview Duke University lacrosse players at their dorm rooms about the team party where a woman reported being raped, but the athletes refused to speak with investigators, an attorney for several players said Friday. The school confirmed that Durham detectives were on campus Thursday, but said they did not execute any search warrants. The school's statement corrected comments made earlier Friday by Duke president Richard Brodhead, who told reporters police attempted to enter the rooms, but then said he had few details. Attorney Kerry Sutton said when police approached the players, they contacted their lawyers, who advised them not to speak. The 27-year-old black woman, a student at North Carolina Central University, told police she was raped and beaten by three white lacrosse team members. No charges have been filed, but District Attorney Mike Nifong has said he believes a crime was committed at the party, citing a medical exam that found the woman's injuries and behavior were consistent with being raped. NASA won't release DART mission report LOS ANGELES - Saying the information is too sensitive, NASA said Friday it will not release its report on the failed rendezvous of two spacecraft in what would have been the first such maneuver without human intervention. NASA plans to release a summary of why the DART spacecraft did not complete its mission last year, but the full 70-page document contains details protected by the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, space agency spokesman Michael Braukus said. Launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in April 2005, the 800-pound Demonstration for Autonomous Rendezvous Technology spacecraft successfully located the Pentagon satellite it was to rendezvous with and flew within 300 feet of it. The project ended prematurely when the spacecraft shut down halfway into the 24-hour mission. Would-be bomber won't testify at Moussaoui trial ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Al-Qaida terrorist and would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid will not be testifying at the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema on Friday vacated the order she had previously issued requiring Reid to testify for the defense at Moussaoui's trial. Brinkema gave no explanation for her order. She cited a letter written Friday by Moussaoui's court-appointed lawyers and a motion filed by the federal public defenders in Boston who represented Reid. Both the letter and the motion by Reid's lawyers are sealed, though. Reid is serving a life sentence in Colorado after a failed try to blow up an American Airlines flight in 2001.
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