Have any civil rights of the boys been violated? If so, 18 USC Sec. 242 might be worth a little attention from defense....it might be the pathway to Federal Court and a looksee by the FBI.
http://uscode.house.gov/uscode-cgi/fastweb.exe?getdoc+uscview+t17t20+269+0++%28%29%20%20AN
"Have any civil rights of the boys been violated?"
I certainly think so; but I also think the Justice Dept. won't want to get involved, given the hue of the players.
The players are entitled to a jury of their peers. In the racially divided South of the 1950s, no black man could get a jury of his peers (there were no blacks on juries). That was finally dealt with and ruled unconstitutional.
In the hothouse atmosphere of contemporary black victimhood, I seriously doubt that a jury of inner-city blacks or jurors from a city as racially divided as Durham
could be considered the "peers" of middle-class or upper-class white students; or that we would see anything other
than a repeat of what we have seen in the OJ trial, the
trial of the killer of Meir Kahane (which occured before an auditorium full of witnesses, but where the accused was still acquitted, and the jurors partied with the defense attorneys afterward); or the murder of Meir Rosenbloom (sp?)
(another acquittal, and another party afterward).
(Sorry to say it, but that's where we are in America today.)