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REPORT: All charges may be dropped as early as tomorrow in Duke Lacrosse rape case...
Drudge Report ^ | 03/22/07 | Drudge/Fox News

Posted on 03/22/2007 8:20:35 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper

REPORT: All charges may be dropped as early as tomorrow in Duke Lacrosse rape case, FOXNEWS reports... 'We will be hearing a dismissal in the coming days,' MORE...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; dukelax; fongfitz; judicialactivism
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To: Cicero
they should consider filing suit against the president and many of the faculty of Duke University as well.

I see this as a no-brainer.

The Duke administration and the "80 professors" should be getting their presciptions for Xanax and Ambien filled right about now.

They are going to have very difficult futures.

21 posted on 03/22/2007 8:29:47 AM PDT by angkor
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To: angkor
Duke has already started to deal with some repercussions from this. Applications to the school were down something like 20% last year, and their reputation is in the toilet right now.

If I were one of these kids I'd sue the school for the value of its entire endowment, then offer to settle for a minimal amount if the school agreed to move its entire campus out of Durham, NC.

22 posted on 03/22/2007 8:29:57 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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To: angkor

I'm with you on Duke. NO ONE should send a kid there, and the university should be driven into bankruptcy for its despicable actions in this "case."


23 posted on 03/22/2007 8:31:43 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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To: napscoordinator
Too bad the guys lives were ruined in the process. They can never get their lives back

They should argue that in court, but in practice I don't think it's true.

I wouldn't recognize any of their names.

24 posted on 03/22/2007 8:31:44 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Puppage
And, we should expect charges against the accuser, WHEN?

Personally, I think Nifong should have recognized from the beginning that he was dealing with a young woman with a personality disorder of some type. If properly handled at the beginning, she would have gotten the proper care, and he would have brought no charges against anyone.

Now, his personal ambition has injured these players as well as this woman.

25 posted on 03/22/2007 8:31:47 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Wait a minute, they STILL haven`t been dropped? WHAT??


26 posted on 03/22/2007 8:32:08 AM PDT by Screamname ((optional, printed after your name on post):)
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To: Sleeping Freeper

Let the lawsuits begin. And rightly so.


27 posted on 03/22/2007 8:33:00 AM PDT by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: angkor
The "accuser", Nifong, the professors, and hopefully Duke itself will learn a financial lesson never to be forgotten.

You can bet these kids will have pit bull attorneys who will follow the money. And there is a lot of money to go after. Given how badly these kids lives were damaged, the jury awards against these spineless dirtbags will, hopefully, set new records.

28 posted on 03/22/2007 8:36:12 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: LS

I read that Duke has seen a significant decrease in applications, something on the order of 10%. Not nearly enough, but a good start. When my kids were college shopping they were very much put off by Duke. Several people we know who went to Duke have stopped giving them money because they're disgusted with the administration and the general atmosphere there.


29 posted on 03/22/2007 8:36:22 AM PDT by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: Alberta's Child
If I were one of these kids I'd sue the school for the value of its entire endowment, then offer to settle for a minimal amount

Nah, I'd go for the endowment.

The behavior of Duke administrators and its tenured faculty was unspeakably vicious. They should be utterly destroyed.

30 posted on 03/22/2007 8:37:37 AM PDT by angkor
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To: ChocChipCookie

Nifong deserves to be in JAIL for his conduct in this case, as well as having everything he owns taken away from him.


31 posted on 03/22/2007 8:37:56 AM PDT by eyeamok
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To: Sleeping Freeper

About damn time.


32 posted on 03/22/2007 8:38:16 AM PDT by HEY4QDEMS (Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
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To: xzins
Now, his personal ambition has injured these players as well as this woman.

If Nifong thought he could get this case through a court of law, it speqaks to more than mere ambition.

It's some sort of venal insanity.

33 posted on 03/22/2007 8:39:39 AM PDT by angkor
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To: Sleeping Freeper

CNN's Nancy Grace will probably sue if this does happen. She convicted the boys on the first day, and can't be proved wrong by some dumb 'ole legal system.


34 posted on 03/22/2007 8:39:40 AM PDT by RabidBartender
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To: Cicero

[Frankly, they should consider filing suit against the president and many of the faculty of Duke University as well.]

I agree.


35 posted on 03/22/2007 8:40:29 AM PDT by khnyny
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To: CatoRenasci

I don't think it's a coincidence that their basketball team exited in the First Round of the NCAA tournament this year.


36 posted on 03/22/2007 8:43:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: angkor
I wouldn't recognize any of their names.

Google will for any prospective employer who does a search for the rest of their lives.

37 posted on 03/22/2007 8:44:20 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Sleeping Freeper

About damned time. Now who's going to reimburse the families for the huge debt they've incurred for legal bills?


38 posted on 03/22/2007 8:45:54 AM PDT by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: angkor

I truly do believe that Nifong has a mental disorder.

His actions AFTER his re-election was ensured, knowing the information that he knew about this case, are deranged.


39 posted on 03/22/2007 8:47:08 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: CatoRenasci
I stopped giving them money after Terry Sanford and his presidential privilege admission list was revealed just prior to Sandford using Duke to land in the US Senate.

Duke's Sanford was the original Terrible Terry RAT liberal Democrat until Terry McAwful managed to replace him with his Global Crossing, Clintanoid-shilling and DNC shenanigans.
40 posted on 03/22/2007 8:47:17 AM PDT by rod1 (uake)
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