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"P.S. You handle, while probably accurate, is a real downer"

When you see several people get away with murder because the jury was not allowed to see all the facts in a case, sometimes the only way you can sleep at night is to tell yourself that a trial is not ultimate justice, it is just a process to decide who is dumb enough to get caught. In law school, the mantra of the mostly-uber-liberal professors was "it is better that a thousand guilty defendants are acquitted than one innocent defendant should be acquitted." That is fine if all you ever deal with is defendants, but when you deal with victims it seems to be very callous toward the rights of the truly innocent (victims). Still, the very protections that turn the thousand guilty defendants loose are the protections that will shield the Duke Lacrosse players. The thing that shocked me when I became a prosecutor was not how many times innocent people are accused, but how frequently the guilty escape punishment. Law is not justice and cannot be. It is a process, and I -as an insider - am confident that the system will prevent the Duke Lacrosse players from ever being convicted in this case. The evidence is simply not there.