"Passed-Out Drunk"
The woman who's accusing the Duke lacrosse team of rape was "passed-out drunk" in a car,
according to just-released police radio recordings.
"She's breathing and appears to be fine," said the police officer who first came to the woman's aid. "She's not in distress. She's just passed-out drunk."
It's hard to know what to make of this; it could both help the prosecution or help the defense.
Certainly a drunk woman could be raped; in fact, her drunken state might have made her more vulnerable to an act of violence. And if the lacrosse players got her drunk....
On the other hand, it's hard to imagine that you'd be viciously raped by three men for half an hour, as she has claimed, and, minutes later, pass out in a car. Possible, I guess, but hard to imagine.
The more we learn, the more this case comes across as, at the very least, murky.
I wonder: How many people are still comfortable with maintaining the anonymity of the accuser?
