<p>The bigger headache is probably flushing them out of sex crimes databases. My understanding is that it is relatively easy to put someone in a database which gets propagated to a bunch of other databases but that it is quite difficult to get someone out because you have to find all the other databases.</p>
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<p>There are still those out there that believe that “something happened”. KC Johnson chronicles this stuff regularly at Durham in Wonderland.</p>
<p>I still remember the Duke players’ names. And their faces. And where they went after Duke. It’s not something I am likely to forget, as my son was recruited by Duke and could have been a freshman on that team that year. This event had a lasting impact on every Duke player, including the ones whose names were not in the limelight. And every one of those kids had to retain an attorney. It was life-changing for all of them and their families, some of whom I know personally. I still have an Innocent wristband on my car’s gearshift.</p>
<p>Sad story all the way around.</p>
<p>I have KC Johnson’s book in the bedroom. I plan to donate it to the local library one of these days. I had my kids read the book so that they could see what a social disaster could look like.</p>
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<p>I hope that you are as charitable to all wrongly accused people, even the lesser among us. Lots of people are wrongly accused. That doesn’t make this situation right, but the accused players were fortunate to be in the enviable position of being able to defend themselves. The season was cancelled due to public bad behavior outside the rape case.</p>
<p>"^^^ I didn’t apply to Duke because i didn’t want to get raped by the lacrosse team… "</p>
<p>Just copied this off of the College Search and Selection thread on CC. Look for yourself.</p>
<p>I understand Mike Nifong and the Gang of 88 were unavailable for comment on this story.</p>
<p>I don’t remember their names either. I’m sure lots of lessons were learned. And yes, consideration had been given to suspending the team before the rape allegations because they were considered to be out of control. Come to think of it, maybe lessons weren’t learned. The same “culture” contributed to the death of Yeardley Love at UVA.</p>
<p>From Durham in Wonderland:</p>
<p>… She is currently being represented by none other than an old friend of Mike Nifong’s, Woody Vann, who had previously labeled Mangum “a very credible, believable person.” Of course, this is the same Vann who in June 2006 dismissed Jim Coleman’s (accurate) critique of Nifong and bizarrely claimed that the defense attorneys were “satisfied” with Nifong’s performance as prosecutor.</p>
<p>and the murder case finished … [Duke</a> lacrosse accuser found guilty of murder | SI Wire](<a href=“http://tracking.si.com/2013/11/22/duke-lacrosse-accuser-found-guilty-of-murder/?eref=sihp]Duke”>http://tracking.si.com/2013/11/22/duke-lacrosse-accuser-found-guilty-of-murder/?eref=sihp)</p>
<p>I am sorry to hear about this. Though from the onset, I was disturbed about how the authorities in the DA’s office and at the university reacted to what had happened in the lacrosse case, I felt that it was a very sad thing that these privileged young men there at Duke as well as in other locales, involve themselves in such business with those who are in that type of work. Exploition and support of exploition. i don’t think the Duke players deserved what happened and it was the result of a sloppy and opportunistic prosecuter, but I do believe that the young men themselves acted shamefully. </p>
<p>I’m not surprised that the woman in this case has gotten herself in so much more trouble. What did anyone expect?</p>