Parents of Duke Lacrosse Players to Appear on '60 Minutes'

Durham, N.C. — The Duke lacrosse case will be the focus of another "60 Minutes" report. This time, the parents of the accused lacrosse players are speaking out.

In October, CBS News correspondent Ed Bradley interviewed David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, who are accused of attacking a woman at an off-campus party in March 2006. All three men have proclaimed their innocence.

The parents of the accused players will speak with "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl. The report will air on WRAL this Sunday at 8 p.m.

"Mr. Nifong, you've picked on the wrong families," Rae Evans, David Evans' mother, says in the interview. "You've picked on the wrong family of the Duke lacrosse team. You've picked on the wrong family of Duke University. and you will pay every day for the rest of your life."

This week, attorneys for the players filed a new set of motions asking the accuser's identification of her alleged attackers be thrown out. They said the accuser has contradicted evidence regarding the time line.

The players' attorneys also claim the alleged victim recently told an investigator that Seligmann did not perform any kind of sex act with her, but was in the room when the alleged attack occurred. In April, she said he did assault her.

WRAL has tried to contact Nifong about the latest filings, but he was not taking calls.

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This whole thing is going to make a great script for a mini-series !

geowilrlst
January 15, 2007 1:55 a.m.

"They look evil" .... interesting opinion ... six people sitting on sofas "look evil" ????

Add this little bon bon to the tons of other interesting comments to emerge in all this.

FloydRTurbo
January 12, 2007 6:09 p.m.

Oh, please. Women who are paid $800 for half an hour or an hour are not strippers - they are prostitutes. Not being able to remember whether or not a sex act meeting the definition of rape actually occurred is a lot more than just being "fuzzy on the details," although if you had had sex with 5 different men that day, as the DNA evidence suggests, you might be a little fuzzy on just who they were.

gmcgann
January 12, 2007 5:41 p.m.

deastwood1 You are truly amazing being able to tell the guilt or innocence of people by what you see in their eyes on TV no less!!!! now that must be a really great HD TV

normalthinking
January 12, 2007 4:40 p.m.

People what about the facts and innocent until proven guilty. First of all Nifiong is not doing his job why else is he schedule to appear before the ethic board. Second too many wholes in a bucket won't hold water so why should anyone believe the so call accuser. NO DNA, NO PHYSICAL EVIDENCE, corroborating evidence clearing at least one of the boys, as well as evidence that now show even more wholes in her story. I wasn't there and can't say what really happened but even a fool can see that something is wrong with this picture. And to deastwood1 -at- nc -dot- rr -dot- com, race has nothing to do with it the issue with Nifiong was that he painted the gentlemen as guilty before he got the facts, he made this a black and white issue and as a black women I NEVERED BELIVED HER STORY how could you have been forcibly held down raped and sodomized for over a half of hour and there was not one shred of DNA or transfer. People check the facts.