Charges in the Duke case have now been dropped due to a "tragic rush to accuse" – and the attack has been determined to have never happened.

Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against the three Duke lacrosse players accused of sexually assaulting a stripper at a party, saying the athletes were innocent victims of a "tragic rush to accuse" by an overreaching district attorney.

"There were many points in the case where caution would have served justice better than bravado," North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper said in a blistering assessment of Durham County District Mike Nifong's handling of the case.

Cooper, who took over the case after Nifong was charged with ethics violations that could get him disbarred, said his own investigation concluded not only that the evidence against the young men was insufficient, but that no attack took place.

If this determination does not give rise to some sort of civil rights action against Nifong and civil damages for the actual victims in this case, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, then justice will not have been done.

And we need criminal charges brought against the false accuser – and that includes an end to the media practice of not naming this liar whose criminal actions have forever harmed these three INNOCENT young men and their teammates.

CRYSTAL GAIL MANGUM
LIAR

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