On April 11, 2007, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped all charges and declared the three players "innocent." Cooper stated that the charged players – Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans – were victims of a "tragic rush to accuse."[5] The initial prosecutor for the case, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong, who had been denounced as a "rogue prosecutor" by Cooper, withdrew from the case in January 2007 after the North Carolina State Bar filed ethics charges against him. That June, Nifong was disbarred for "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation," making Nifong the first prosecutor in North Carolina history to lose his law license based on actions in a case. Nifong was found guilty of criminal contempt and served one day in jail.[6]
Cooper pointed to several inconsistencies in Mangum’s accounts of the evening as well as unimpeachable alibi evidence provided by Seligmann and Finnerty in the summary of findings report. The Durham Police Department has also come under fire for violating their own policies by allowing Nifong to act as the de facto head of the investigation, giving a suspect-only photo identification procedure to Mangum, pursuing with the case despite vast discrepancies in notes taken by Investigator Benjamin Himan and Sgt. Mark Gottlieb, and the release of a guilt presuming poster shortly after the allegations.[7] The ex-players are seeking unspecified damages and new criminal justice reform laws in a federal civil-rights lawsuit against the city of Durham.[7] The case has sparked varied responses from the media, faculty groups, students, the community, and others.
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That is what happend in the Duke Lacross case.
take a read of this: it's very short
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/122Exoneration.pdf
basically that shows that this man was finally let off the hook because of DNA evidence. but do you know what that also means. THEY FUCKING GO FOR THE DEATH PENALTY WITHOUT DNA EVIDENCE.
to this day 122 men have been released from death row because of DNA evidence that proves their innocence. But do you think it is that easy for an inmate to get evidence re looked at, at the expense of the court???? Do you think we have cleared every single one of the innocent inmates?? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Do you really want me to get an article that shows the insane process of getting a court to look at DNA evidence that wasnt there 20 years ago on a 20 year old case? Where in some cases the courts wont look at it. There are still many cases where inmates could be potentially cleared from their crimes BUT THE COURT WONT RELOOK AT THE EVIDENCE AND/OR NEW DNA EVIDENCE.
And from your stance of "KILL THE BASTARDS AND DONT WASTE TAX MONEY!!!!!" That may be one of the most retarded/ignorant responses i have ever heard. As of January 1, 2007, there were 3,350 prisoners awaiting execution in the United States. Which equates to .04% of the 7 million people in the prison systems. If your idea is save money from the jail systems how about you go protest drug policies that are in place. another judicial complete fuck up.
Because when you have a violent sociopath serial killer the worst thing you can do is kill him. DEAD PEOPLE DONT TALK. we can learn things from these demented fucks. We can advance with psychology by studying these people. you say "but hey what if they aint talking???" well they might have a change of heart in 20 years. Id much rather use and abuse a serial killer. Pick apart his brain and learn, find out how we address these types of people. They might know about other cases etc. There is too much to lose when you execute someone. (death of an innocent, and not getting information that you could get decades later)
