Story in today's NandO.
Lacrosse player's dad files a plea
http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/453339.html
Also Wednesday, The News & Observer asked the judge to make public the accuser's medical records. Attorneys for Seligmann and Evans filed the records under seal but asked that the judge unseal them. Seligmann's attorneys asked that a judge make the records public. The newspaper's lawyers cited the long history and practice of open courts.
"The filings associated with the sealed documents raise questions about the actions of the district attorney prosecuting this case," attorneys for The N&O wrote in the motion. When the conduct of public officials is at issue, the public has even greater interest in court records, the motion said.
It looks like the N&O has sent the AA reporterette Samiha Khanna, whose byline was on all the pro-accuser, anti-player early articles, to the dugout and turned the ball over to Joseph Neff, whose reporting sticks close to the known facts.
I think the N&O realizes they crossed the line in some of their editorial decisions, and may very well find themselves among those eventually facing civil suits.