Thursday, April 12, 2007
Roy Cooper does the right thing
"The Duke lacrosse rape case finally collapsed Wednesday, with North Carolina's top prosecutor saying the three athletes were railroaded by a district attorney who ignored increasingly flimsy evidence in a 'tragic rush to accuse," the Associated Press reports.
"There were many points in the case where caution would have served justice better than bravado," [Attorney General Roy] Cooper said. "In the rush to condemn, a community and a state lost the ability to see clearly."
The true victims of this sordid affair are the three - innocent - young men whose names will always come tagged with "accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse scandal." When former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan was acquitted after being targeted by a federal Mike Nifong-style prosecutor, he famously asked, "Where do I go to get my reputation back?" Where do the Duke Three, as the guys at Power Line have dubbed them, go to get their reputations back? That is indeed the question of the year.
Unfortunately, the Duke Three have amassed sizable legal bills. If you'd like to help them out, financially, here's a link.
"There were many points in the case where caution would have served justice better than bravado," [Attorney General Roy] Cooper said. "In the rush to condemn, a community and a state lost the ability to see clearly."
The true victims of this sordid affair are the three - innocent - young men whose names will always come tagged with "accused of rape in the Duke lacrosse scandal." When former Labor Secretary Ray Donovan was acquitted after being targeted by a federal Mike Nifong-style prosecutor, he famously asked, "Where do I go to get my reputation back?" Where do the Duke Three, as the guys at Power Line have dubbed them, go to get their reputations back? That is indeed the question of the year.
Unfortunately, the Duke Three have amassed sizable legal bills. If you'd like to help them out, financially, here's a link.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, April 12, 2007 
