all these kids will land on their feet. most likely much better than that. duke is a tight knit alumnus and lacrosse is even tighter. older players and their powerful families will jump at the chance to help these guys with a job or whatever. their lives are not ruined by a long shot.
Also, this just in...
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-liduke0419,0,665887.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines
Finnerty seeks Duke DA’s resignation
BY JOSEPH MALLIA
joseph.mallia@newsday.com
April 18, 2007, 1:26 PM EDT
Collin Finnerty wants to turn the tables on the North Carolina district attorney found to have wrongfully prosecuted him.
The former Duke lacrosse player, through his attorney Michael Cornacchia of Manhattan, has asked top North Carolina officials to demand the resignation of Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong, and to order a criminal investigation into Nifong’s conduct and the conduct of several Durham police officers.
“Incredibly, Mr. Nifong continues in office as the chief law enforcement officer in Durham County, making life-altering decisions about who should be the subject of prosecution and handling the most sensitive and important cases,” Cornacchia wrote to Gov. Mike Easley and Attorney General Roy Cooper, of North Carolina, in a letter dated Tuesday.
“(Attorney) General Cooper branded Mr. Nifong as a ‘rogue’ and ‘unchecked’ prosecutor because he had three innocent, young men, arrested, indicted and prosecuted for crimes that General Cooper found did not occur,” the letter says.
A copy of the Finnerty lawyer’s letter was obtained Wednesday by Newsday.
Cooper last week swept away any doubts as to the innocence of Collin Finnerty, 20, of Garden City, Reade Seligmann, 21, of Essex Fells, N.J., and David Evans, 24, of Bethesda, Md. All three were arrested and spent more than a year under the cloud of Nifong’s public condemnation after an exotic dancer falsely accused them of raping, sexually assaulting and kidnapping her during an off-campus party in March 2006.
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