The Duke lacrosse rape case is disturbing for many reasons, but most of all for the judicial elephant in the room: nobody (except maybe Dan Abrams) is willing to acknowledge that something just does not add up here. It seems that in American justice anymore (call it Nancy Grace syndrome) the heinousness of the allegations -- and these are about as heinous as it gets -- is what convinces us whether or not they are true, not the supporting data. The more awful something sounds the more we believe that it must be true.
Of course I do not have all of the information from the prosecutor's office (and I pray there is much more given the number of lives that have already been destroyed), but it sure seems like every detail that emerges that could be either incriminating or exculpatory, every one oof them is decidedly pro-defense.
There's little doubt in my mind that these two jocks are probably the biggest dicks around (one of them was already convicted of "simple assault" in a gay-bashing type of crime), and I'm guessing some untoward racial comments and/or threats were most likely made toward this woman. But my legal instincts are impeccable (all my old co-workers shunned me when I called Susan "some black man carjacked me with my two boys in the back seat" Smith a disgusting liar during her initial "tear-filled" press conference) so hold me to this: there was no rape at the party and there'll be no convictions.
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The bad thing about the Duke Lacrosse case is that the DNA evidence came back inconclusive twice ... plus the accuser has already accused someone of rape in 1996. That definitely won't look good in court. It will be amazing if these men are convicted of anything more than a misdemeanor. I love how this state (I'm in NC) likes to reinforce the idea of the "Boys Club." Don't even get me started in Jesse Helms. *gag*
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