"Didn't it have the idea that if Finnerty transfers he'll have the new campus immediately peg him as that "Duke Rape Kid" and have to set about clearing his name again on that campus. "
He will have that problem everywhere for years and possibly for the rest of his life. Rape charges, whether false or true, haunt the exhonerated for the rest of their lives. This kid will always be known as the "Duke rape kid" and will always be subject to comments and glances and doubt. Its a damn shame what this DA has done to these three boys. Things can never go back to the way they were before the charges.
You are absolutely correct but he will not have to explain himself on the Duke campus like he would on some other campus. Everyone at Duke will know the whole story of how he got screwed over and except for the idiot leftists I think most of the students will be sympathetic to him. That would not be the case elsewhere.