You are absolutely right. In all honesty the players overall acted more honorably after they were implicated until the news media started convicting the whole team. Then they did the smart thing and started to protect themselves. Brodhead and his minions hung the whole team out to dry. And have left them blowing in the wind ever since. I hope the Duke alumni can bring enough pressure to bear to send that piece of PC pond scum packing.
Nifong made them all suspects when he took their DNA. They had no choice but to "lawyer up" which he called "not cooperating." They HELPED the police in anyway they could even identifying who and who wasn't at the party. Duke didn't inform the parents and these guys, or at least Evans, talked without the aide of counsel. Brodhead is out of Yale, pulled a similar stunt there, and needs to go.