If you think about it, think about the suspicions of the Nifong and the investigators. These 46 guys are standing as a block, some as young as 18, they've played tricks on them (telling them player A implicated you, and the e-mail sent from a player's account) and no one caved. They were told how their careers would be over and so on, no one caved.
Who would be able to keep these young guys in line like that? Who would engender such loyalty?
I'm sure that is another reason why 23 year David Evans that was voted unamimously as Team Captain was a strong suspect.
And there are valid reasons why Lineups are supposed to be administered by someone totally outside the investigation that truly doesn't know fillers from suspects. Fillers - that's another violation entirely.
Of course, it never occurred to the dingbat DA that the reason no lacrosse came forward to report anything is because there was nothing to come forward with.
THe ironic part of using dirtball tactics like that (lying to the players, using false e-mail accounts, showing up to interrogate outside the presence of counsel) is that if it is unsuccesful, a judge and jury gets to hear it. It makes the DA and the police look like the minor league Mafia.