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I don't know the guys either but I tend to call them Collin, Reade and Dave. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I'm around the same age and it seems weird to call them by their last names. Maybe their first names are quicker to type. I don't know.

They aren't irrelevant to me though. I'm very interested in the legal aspects of this case since I'm a law student and I'd love to see Nifong, Gottlieb and that whole group go down. But the thing that really drew me to this case and got me to start posting was that Collin reminds me alot of my youngest brother. All three guys remind me of friends of mine. So they aren't irrelevant to me.

I don't know the guys either but I tend to call them Collin, Reade and Dave. I'm not sure why. Maybe it's because I'm around the same age and it seems weird to call them by their last names. Maybe their first names are quicker to type. I don't know.

As a college professor, maybe I have learned over the years the false sense of knowing people you can get from using familiar address with people you don't know. I don't call my students by their first names either. Not doing so reminds me, I do not know them and we have a relationships that will likely be short term and is in some sense adversarial. That is I want them to learn and they want a grade and out. [Grad students and professional students facing a professional exam like the bar are different in that respect.]

They aren't irrelevant to me though. I'm very interested in the legal aspects of this case since I'm a law student and I'd love to see Nifong, Gottlieb and that whole group go down. But the thing that really drew me to this case and got me to start posting was that Collin reminds me alot of my youngest brother. All three guys remind me of friends of mine. So they aren't irrelevant to me.

In some ways this is a sad admission on your part, particularly as a future lawyer. The guy who is not your race. They guy who does not remind you of your youngest brother. The unattractive person charged with a crime deserves as much protection from guys like Nifong as these three victims. I know it is human nature to be interested in a case like this because of who the victims are. I am interested in sports, though I knew little of lacrosse but that is what attracted me to check out the noise around this case.

But what has kept me interested in this case is the possibility that nothing other than the characteristics of the victim has changed in the US since the days "To Kill A Mocking Bird" was written about. Of course in that novel it was sad what happened to the victim, but the point of how awful things were systematically was much bigger and much more important.