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abb, while the local media may have made a mess of the coverage, believing as most people do, that there's no way someone in the D.A.'s position could make such a mockery of the system or that there's no possibility that a woman in the AV's situation would be brazen enough to lie about what happened (whether it was, in fact, a rape at all, or who did it), I still say had it not been for media coverage of this case, these young men would be convicted and serving their sentence out as we post. The media dealt far more kindly with Duke that most of us who have followed this case would have.

If there's a mess on Duke's campus, I'm sorry. The University definitely has issues to address, and Brodhead had better get a move on. They also need a strong dose of common sense and a refresher course in Constitutional Law.

I am still concerned that this review of the case is taking far too long. I wanted it to be thorough, but this is a rough time to be one of the three young men or a member of their families. North Carolina had better get it right or there will be absolute hell to pay -- and I don't mean from the far left or the far right, but from normal Americans (black and white) who can see the handwriting on the wall for our system of justice.