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You know how much we just love to write about the Duke lacrosse case. Today's a big day in the case, though; district attorney Mike Nifong, accused by many of using the case for political gain, won the Democratic primary yesterday by a slim margin. So far there is no Republican challenger, so he's likely to serve a four-year term.
We've grown so tired of this case; no one knows anything about what happened that night, so everyone just relies on the same news reports that everyone is simultanously decrying. But it will be interesting and instructive to see if the case continues with the same fervor now that the election issue is behind us. We hope so. We really hope so.
We send you back to your regularly scheduled fun programming now.
Nifong Wins Primary [News & Observer]
Duke And Cover [Slate]
Comments
wow, a da playing politics...par for the course vincent orange wouldn't care so much about dc baseball if he weren't running for mayor, it's all about gettting in the paper for these guys
Is that Jerry Springer?
Time-stamped surveillance video from an ATM showing that at least one of the accused wasn't even at the house at the time of the alleged rape: http://tinyurl.com/lqzds But hey, even if the accuser made up the story, it still gave us the opportunity to thoughtfully discuss issues of race, gender and class. I mean, the accused perpetrators are still white, male and privileged, and certainly deserve some sort of punishment for that.
A very interesting point of view in the reputed National Journal. http://nationaljournal.com/taylor.htm
Now that the team has been tried and convicted in the court of public opinion, it's time for Nifong to kick back and relax... Never mind! Find the "third guy" before everyone forgets your name!
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