"One of the attorneys was on TV yesterday with the information Nifong gave the judge in order to get a search warrant; in it he stated flatly that the DNA "would positively" identify the player, or words close to that."
One thing that seems clear is that the early public statements expressing certainty before the reults were in were a mistake.
I told you before I was surprised that this story was kept quiet for so long.
It happened on the 14th, and the first threads on this story are on FR about the 26th -- it may have been th 24th, but still! I remember that as soon as I heard it as breaking news on the local station somebody had already put up a thread by the time I got here within minutes.
And the other thing I remember is that by that time, those people had already printed up those huge fliers with ALL the pictures of them team on them and were hanging them all over Durham.
It most certainly WAS a rush to judgement and they never looked back.