Too little, too late.

The Durham County district attorney apologized Thursday to the three former Duke University lacrosse players he had charged with sexually assaulting a stripper.

“To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused,” the district attorney, Michael B. Nifong, wrote in a three-paragraph statement a day after the state attorney general, Roy A. Cooper, dismissed all the charges and called him a “rogue” prosecutor.

“I also understand that when someone has been wrongly accused, the harm caused by the accusations might not be immediately undone merely by dismissing them,” Mr. Nifong wrote. “It is my sincere desire that the actions of Attorney General Cooper will serve to remedy any remaining injury that has resulted from these cases.”

The apology was rebuffed by lawyers for the former students, whose families are seeking Mr. NifongÂ’s ouster and considering suing him for damages. The North Carolina State Bar has formally accused Mr. Nifong of numerous ethical violations.

“I still haven’t heard him admit he did anything wrong,” said James P. Cooney III, a lawyer for Reade W. Seligmann, one of the three. “I think the most concrete way he could apologize to everybody is to resign his office.”

No admission of wrong-doing, combined with an attempt to take credit for the dismissal of all charges by pointing out that he turned the case over to the NC attorney general -- but only after he was brought up on ethics charges. Add to that his efforts to intimidate the cabbie who helped clear one of the players and you see nothing but a corrupt prosecutor who would not know the truth if it walked up and bit him on the ass.

Mike Nifong needs to be in jail -- and so does Crystal Gail Mangum, the lying sack of crap whose false claims set off this entire tragedy. And both need to be sued into oblivion by the falsely accused and irresponsibly charged players.

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