Duke LaCrosse Players Have Charges Against Them Dropped
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North Carolina’s Duke University can breathe a small sigh of relief as news filters out of the remaining charges against three of its Lacrosse players are dropped. The highly controversial rape case not only brought scrutiny to the students involved, but the school and its administration as a whole.
From the beginning, all three players claimed their innocence - emphatically - and it would seem now there may be a moment of vindication for they and their families. The prosecution disclosed there just wasn’t enough conclusive evidence that a crime was committed.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper on the new findings:
The result of our review and investigation shows clearly that there is insufficient evidence to proceed on any of the charges. Today, we are filing notices of dismissal for all charges. We believe that these cases were the result of a tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations. Based on the significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness, we believe these three individuals are innocent of these charges.”
Initially, charges of first-degree forcible rape, sexual offense and kidnapping were brought up on the three players, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and the team’s captain David Evans, but the rape charges were dropped when DNA evidence could not link the players to accuser.
The accuser encountered the three men after she was hired as a stripper for a party they were having. There were accusations of racism throughout the case as the three men were white and the accuser was black. Some believe that at some point people at the party had made racial remarks to the accuser (who’s name was protected) and her friend, another stripper. They concluded the rape case was created as retaliation.Â
The truth is we may never know what *really* sparked the charges of rape, but apparently these men weren’t guilty of what they were charged with.Â
I’ll bet they’re guilty of throwing wild parties and banging hotties though. Just a guess. (see above for photo evidence)
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