Duke Lacrosse Case

Fox News is reporting that all charges may be dropped against the Duke University lacrosse players who were accused of raping a stripper at a team party.  If this is true, former DA Mike Nifong better brace himself for even more negative press and bar investigations and big, big trouble. 

Nifong played the media just right in the beginning of the case and reporters were too eager for the juicy story to question and investigate.  Spoiled jocks at an elite school raping a a minority at a sleazy party with underage drinking.   These days, the media is so eager for tabloid-ready stories that they just latched on to Nifong’s version of what happened, which, as we now know, is simply not borne out by the facts, including the DNA. 

But now that the truth is out, reporters will leave no stone unturned before throwing it at Nifong.  They feel like Nifong spun them and used the media to further his election prospects, facts be damned.  In the eyes of reporters, that is unforgiveable.  As one of the best reporters I know says, “He must be punished.”