The Duke lacrosse saga is far from over. The Herald-Sun reports lawyers for the three innocent players are pushing to get evidence/data from the city to be used in the players’ civil rights lawsuit. Attorneys for the young men contend evidence such as email might already be gone. And then there’s this fascinating piece of information at the end of the story:
Notes officials took from Mayor Bill Bell’s regularly scheduled Wednesday morning meetings with City Manager Patrick Baker, for example, show the two discussed the case every week after reports surfaced that police took DNA samples from team members to the time grand juries indicted the three players.
But save for that bare acknowledgement, they don’t document the substance of those conversations.
