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Topic Started: Dec 26 2015, 08:56 AM (155 Views)
Quasimodo

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http://thehayride.com/2015/04/60-minutes-revisits-the-duke-lacrosse-case/

60 Minutes Revisits The Duke Lacrosse Case

[April 2015]


Specifically, with a long interview with Mike Pressler, the coach of the Duke lacrosse team at the time who was forced to resign after three of his players were falsely accused of raping a stripper hired for a team house party.

The stripper in question was later proven to be insane, and later killed a man. The district attorney who prosecuted the case for political reasons – he was in the midst of a tough re-election fight and was desperate to get the black vote – was later disbarred.

But Pressler had his reputation destroyed and was untouchable for a good while as a lacrosse coach. He finally resurfaced as the head coach at Bryant University in Rhode Island, then a Division II school, which he has turned into one of the better lacrosse teams in the country.

The athletic director at Duke who threw Pressler under the bus? Joe Alleva, the current athletic director at LSU. There has never been much scrutiny about Alleva’s actions, largely because he was carrying out orders from university president Richard Brodhead who would have served him up to the lynch mob had he stood for his athletes getting due process, but Pressler did write a book about the case and Duke’s treatment of it called “It’s Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Case and the Lives It Shattered.”

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Duke spokesman John Burness told The News and Observer newspaper in Raleigh, N.C., that university officials did not succumb to pressure and made decisions at the time based on what they believed was in the best interests of everyone involved.

[IE, not truth, not justice, but the "best interests of everyone involved". Yet what "interests" did anyone have which could compare with the "interests" of the falsely-accused?]

“We were relying on the legal system to ultimately get to the truth, and that’s what ultimately happened with the attorney general’s actions,” Burness said.

[A process in which Duke stayed distantly aloof, when it was not actively helping Nifong or smearing its students --to insure its own distance from them.]

That case, some nine years later, still stands as one of the most egregious abuses of the legal system and the media – and one of the shiniest examples of executive cowardice on the part of university officials – in modern American history.

But to date, some involved with it have still managed to skate by without being held accountable.




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Someone please see that William D. Cohan gets to watch the program (in reruns) and/or reads the above column...


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