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"...they did not pursue basic evidentiary trails to learn what happened at the lacrosse party."

That's because they were pursuing a Theory of the Case. Why bother looking at evidence, when you have a nice Theory to have fun with? The whole concept of "theory of the case" needs to be junked. Just stick with the provable facts and evidence, guys. If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

"The taxpayers are the next people to be burnt."

Good. They deserve it. When the "taxpayers" and "voters" support a government (police and DA) which is incompetent and does bad things, they deserve to suffer the consequences. Anything else is a shirking of their responsibility as citizens. I'm strongly in favor of lawsuits which crush the taxpayers with massive punitive damages when those taxpayers have bought and paid for the government which screwed up. If the taxpayers and voters have to pay big, really suffer, maybe next time they vote they'll think a little harder about picking somebody who's not an utter moron.

Since the Duke 3's lives have been ruined by the local government of Durham, I don't think it's unreasonable for them to win settlements which set them up very comfortably for life, at the expense of the "taxpayers" of Durham, who paid their government employees to do the ruination. You broke it, you bought it.

One has to wonder exactly where the Department of Justice was during all this and their eerie silence during this past year.

Didn't they shut down whole counties when blacks were being railroaded and wrongly convicted by corrupt judges and prosecutors?

It was known within a month of these persecutions that at least one of these players wasn't even in the place when the incident supposedly happened and there was ATM video to verify it.

It was known that this was a felonious prosecution from the git go. Where was DOJ?

Good. They deserve it. When the "taxpayers" and "voters" support a government (police and DA) which is incompetent and does bad things, they deserve to suffer the consequences. Anything else is a shirking of their responsibility as citizens. I'm strongly in favor of lawsuits which crush the taxpayers with massive punitive damages when those taxpayers have bought and paid for the government which screwed up.

The top 5% of taxpayers pay over 50% of taxes and will so receive over 50% of the crushing from your massive punitive damages. They don't do 50% of voting.

“When the “taxpayers” and “voters” support a government (police and DA) which is incompetent and does bad things, they deserve to suffer the consequences.”

Making the taxpayers “pay” is a great concept; however, taxpayers don’t enjoy voting rights in proportion to the taxes that they ACTUALLY PAY. I think it is more than fair to assert that the vast majority of those who voted these corrupt players into office pay a disproportionately low (or no) share of the taxes in that county.

Those who DO pay taxes are left with the following unsavory choice:

1. Accept the status quo and pay up.
2. Do something to change the status quo.
3. Vote with their feet and leave.

If given the choice, I would choose the latter. Durham is a lost cause.