re: Could The University of Alabama be the next Baylor. UPDATE:Another victim has come forward

This board is skeptical of rape allegations...unless Bama is involved.

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(a) send Megan Rondini’s rape kit and urine sample to a forensic lab for testing;



Even if they had, the results would likely not be back by now. The backlog in AL is insane.


WOW that many rapes in a small college town? Yeesh

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I don't think individual towns have forensic labs, but could be mistaken.

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do you really think any of the national television media will ever pick up on this

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a potential cover up of a rape of a white girl on a college campus where the perp is a wealthy highly connected white male? No. That is so outside the national narrative on sexual assault that it will be met with a collective shrug by the national media.

Leave it to Bama.

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Even if they had, the results would likely not be back by now. The backlog in AL is insane.

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Then why would you take the case to a grand jury if you don't have all the evidence in hand?

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The interview should have been recorded. She should have provided a written statement. At the minimum.

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I agree that a big problem with this case is that she appears to have left the area and ceased cooperating with investigators (though, seeing as how they started saying they were going to charge her with a crime too, one can understand why a scared 21 yo female would do such a thing). But, didn't she make a written statement? I mean, don't you have to do that to get any kind of serious investigation going in the first place? It's not like you can waltz into the sheriff's office and say "yo, I was raped," and they'll go out and start pulling in suspects without you having to swear that you were assaulted, right?

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You cannot make them answer questions. What if they refused?

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Do we know if they did or not? You can't make them answer the questions but you can make them sit down and be asked.

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As former law enforcement and now an attorney, if the cops show up and start asking you about crimes you ask for an attorney period. A good one will show up and tell you to shut up.

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Sure, but any decent LEO would ask anyway. "I want an attorney" is the worst thing he can say. I imagine that as an LEO you asked a lot of suspects stuff that they shouldn't have answered but they did and you were able to build a case based on their own stupidity.

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Excuse me well you take a drug test that can be used against you in a court of law? "No. I want an attorney." See previous answer of what a competent attorney will say when they arrive.

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I know investigators with the WANTF and they have a public ledger of cases and a private ledger of cases. That private ledger of cases contains the names of people who have come up in investigations and are suspected of being users or players behind the scenes. That's where they develop their list of probable suspects. There's plenty of fertile ground there to start chasing down the drugged angle, especially given that he was accused of a very similar act a few years earlier.

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Go ahead. It is not admissible. If any investigation existed and was unfounded and the cops or DA bring it up there will be another type of civil case pending.

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Depending on the outcome of the previous case, wouldn't that at least be the basis for a reasonable suspicion that would justify pursuing the other angles in this case?

Yeah, the university angle here is weak. Did they do all that they absolutely could for this poor girl? No. But UA isn't the one who appears to have bungled the investigation and engaged in some kind of pay-for-play scheme to obstruct justice.

Trust me, in terms of the crooked justice, this onion has a shite-ton of layers and there are lots of metaphorical "bodies" lying around that I imagine folks are getting really nervous about being uncovered right now. In re the crooked school board election, the vote tampering case where the judge overseeing it was married to the house adviser of one of the sororities being investigated, the former police chief whose wife was found dead in the trunk of a car, the head of the narcotics office caught with $250k cash, yada, yada, yada.

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WOW that many rapes in a small college town? Yeesh

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The Department of Forensic Science is a state entity. An entity that had has its funding cut drastically. A PIA for law enforcement, prosecutors, and defense attorneys alike.

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lulz - they evidently have pulled their website. It was up and running on May 16 of this year, but not anymore.

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Looks like they have made a concerted effort to scrub their internet presence.

Although I am skeptical about Donald Watkins, he lays out a very compelling case showing how conflicted the Sheriff and DA are. I don't know what remedies there could be but I would hope some serious pressure and all avenues are pursued.

Homerism aside, I'm not sure how one could defend the University's action if true...