The Duke "report all of you seem to be hanging your hats on" is not the basis for 99% of why I think this case is a severe miscarriage of justice.
Why don't you get informed of what has transpired to date, before wading into a group of people who have been following this closely, in a troll-like manner.
From the very first we've had a small group of Freepers who have followed a party line that goes something like this ~ (1) It's just the towns people, all Democrats, against these young men, all Republicans, who are harmless athletes, (2) The stripper, who has a criminal record, is elementally evil and is telling lies and can't even keep her story straight with her close friend, the other stripper, (3) Any evidence to the contrary has been manufactured after the fact, or is a lie, etc.
When the facts came out that 15 of these guys already had criminal records, with one of them tearing up jack in my own neighborhood in a distant city, you should have abandoned your party line. It won't work anymore.
These people all have a track record for violating our laws and just because some of them are black and some of them are rich, those are NOT reasons for us to treat any of them with kid gloves.
In the meantime, the case progresses and the initial "body of facts" have been refined. Seems to me, though, that with each such refinement it looks worse and worse for the accused.
And no, I don't care if the Prosecutor is a Democrat ~ he knows what he is ~ and he has to live with the shame of it.