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Fantastic Lies - ESPN Films 30 for 30
ESPN ^ | 3/13/16 | ESPN.com

Posted on 03/14/2016 9:03:49 AM PDT by NohSpinZone

On March 13th, 2006, the Duke University lacrosse team had a party. What happened there became a nightmare that changed lives, ruined careers, tarnished a school's reputation and even jeopardized the future of the sport at Duke.

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.go.com ...


TOPICS: History; Local News; Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: duke; espn; lacrosse; nifong
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A must-watch documentary on the 10-year anniversary of this shameful chapter of American jurisprudence. I have to hand it to ESPN for taking a clear position on this - Nifong, Mangum, and the mainstream media were all villains in this farce. A few of the subjects this documentary interviewed infuriated me for their refusal to accept reality; however, for the most part the director got it right.
1 posted on 03/14/2016 9:03:49 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
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To: NohSpinZone

Wow I’m surprised...this is ABC/Disney after all...


2 posted on 03/14/2016 9:05:14 AM PDT by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: NohSpinZone

Yes, excellent documentary. The 85 Bears one was also excellent.


3 posted on 03/14/2016 9:05:45 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: NohSpinZone

Cruz!

Trump!

Kasich!

Rubio!

(*ducks*)


4 posted on 03/14/2016 9:05:57 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Cruz or Trump will defeat the uniparty!)
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To: NohSpinZone

watched it last night...

1) i was amazed nifong got a single day in jail...
2) I wish the 3 Duke lax kid had sued everybody...


5 posted on 03/14/2016 9:05:58 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: NohSpinZone

These young men were railroaded by an incompetent prosecutor. The accuser should have never been believed in the first place.


6 posted on 03/14/2016 9:06:12 AM PDT by MadIsh32 (In order to be pro-market, sometimes you must be anti-big business)
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To: God luvs America

Nifong deserved more than one day in jail.


7 posted on 03/14/2016 9:08:24 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: NohSpinZone

I saw this last night. It was tragic what Nifong did to those kids. I never saw anything about apologies from the liberal faculty or administration who went off half-cocked when the allegations surfaced.


8 posted on 03/14/2016 9:08:50 AM PDT by stratboy
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...most important of all, how a media-obsessed country so much wanted this story to be true.

I'd have phrased it, 'a Media obsessed with pushing racial division and strife, so much wanted this story to be true.'

9 posted on 03/14/2016 9:11:40 AM PDT by El Cid (Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house...)
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The questioning of Nifong’s DNA expert and his stunning admission under oath was as close to a Perry Mason moment as it gets.


10 posted on 03/14/2016 9:11:54 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: NohSpinZone

Taped it to watch tonight.


11 posted on 03/14/2016 9:12:45 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: headstamp 2

So was the one on the Big East and the Pony Express. The one on the Eagles owner was unwatchable.


12 posted on 03/14/2016 9:15:46 AM PDT by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: MadIsh32

While the kids were railroaded by a corrupt and unethical prosecutor, the tracks were laid by the university they attended and the coal tender filled by a racist left wing media pushing an agenda.

The faculty who signed that letter should all have been personally sued and made to pay huge damages. Same with every media outlet that pushed the narrative.

Tell those kids about their “white privilege.”


13 posted on 03/14/2016 9:19:01 AM PDT by henkster
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To: LS

The Big East documentary was indeed so excellent. I grew to admire Dave Gavitt very much after watching it. RIP.


14 posted on 03/14/2016 9:19:46 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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became a nightmare

changed lives

ruined careers

tarnished a school’s reputation

jeopardized the future of the sport at Duke

Yep, that’s the liberal world alright.


15 posted on 03/14/2016 9:23:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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the prosecutor wasn’t incompetent, just evil.

Although he did fail to get re-elected or to cover his tracks, so perhaps “incompetent” is te word to use, after all.


16 posted on 03/14/2016 9:23:30 AM PDT by chesley (Obama -- Muslim or dhimmi? And does it matter?)
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To: NohSpinZone

The stripper/whore who lied about the gang rape is doing 14+ years for stabbing her boyfriend to death. So, she has that going for her.


17 posted on 03/14/2016 9:26:46 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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No, he got re-elected. That was a crucial point in this story and at least one plausible explanation of this rogue prosecutor’s motives. Apparently, though, his miscarriages of justice did not start and end with the Duke case. That was also illuminating.


18 posted on 03/14/2016 9:29:14 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: dainbramaged

Apparently she “wrote” a book about this? I’d bet it’s up there with OJ’s “If I Did It” book in terms of un-readability.


19 posted on 03/14/2016 9:31:07 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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I wonder if this story hurt the stripper exotic dancer business.
20 posted on 03/14/2016 9:32:50 AM PDT by sportutegrl
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