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on Thursday, March 22, 2007 4:11:28 PM
We'll follow suit in cautioning people to take this report with a grain of salt despite those claiming to be "in the know." FOX News is reporting that the charges against the Duke lacrosse players will be dropped within the next few days, maybe as soon as tomorrow:
(HT: Allah at Hot Air)
The remaining charges against three Duke University lacrosse players originally indicted for rape may be dropped sometime within the next few days, according to a report.
Inside Lacrosse Magazine writer Paul Caulfield told FOX News on Thursday that several sources have revealed to him that the assault and attempted kidnapping charges still pending against Collin Finnerty, 19, of Garden City, N.Y.; Dave Evans, 23, of Bethesda, Md.; and Reade Seligmann, 20, of Essex Falls, N.J., will soon be dropped.
Caulfield said his sources include more than just attorneys for the defense…
There have been rumors that the families of Finnerty, Seligmann and Evans may be considering civil lawsuits against Nifong, Duke or the state if it turns out the accuser’s story doesn’t pan out and Nifong is found to be guilty of mishandling the case.
“This is something that will wait in the wings. Once the criminal case is dropped, we are going to see this and I believe we’ll see it quite quickly,” said Caulfield, a former prosecutor.
Nifong is facing some serious repercussions from the fiasco he made out of this case. He purposefully withheld information from the players' defense team that would have exonerated them. He dragged out the case without getting a solid statement fromt he accuser; an accuser, I might add, who continualy kept changing her story, and has now admitted to the new prosecutors that she's not even sure she was raped.
Nifong dragged these students' names through the mud, and I hope their families do file a civil suit against him. But that won't be the icing on the cake. That comes in his next appearance before the state bar to determine whether his license to practice law will be suspended, or completely revoked. I'm pulling for the latter.
Marcie is working towards becoming a lawyer, following in her brother's footsteps, and it's idiots like Nifong that give the profession a bad name. This entire case -- from the start of it up until he relinquished it -- has been purely political. His breach of ethics deserves the harshest punishment possible. Had he kept the DNA results under wraps, he would have been prosecuting three innocent young men for a crime that was nonexistent. Good ridance to bad rubbish. I hope the families wreck his reputation the same way he did.
These students won't get their reputations back so easily, and there wil always be a question mark over their heads even if the charges are dropped. I hope Nifong's happy with himself. What a piece of garbage.
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