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EDITORIAL TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE.


ANY way you look at it, the affair of the Duke University lacrosse lacrosse (ləkrôs`), ball and goal game usually played outdoors by two teams of 10 players each on a field 60 to 70 yd (54.86 to 64.01 m) wide by 110 yd (100.58 m) long. Two goals face each other 80 yd (73.  players arrested for suspected rape of a stripper Stripper

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 was a travesty of justice.

Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong on Thursday apologized to the athletes he had accused last year, but only after the North Carolina attorney general The Attorney General of North Carolina is the head of the state's Department of Justice and provides legal representation and advice to all state agencies. He or she does not have the authority to prosecute specific crimes unless requested to do so by a local district  decided to drop the whole dirty case and cleared the players of all charges.

Still, the damage has been done. No one involved in the scandal emerged unscathed.

Not Nifong, whose reputation as a prosecutor has been irreparably damaged.

Not the lacrosse players, who will never escape the taint taint

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 of the last year.

Not Duke University, which will be remembered for years to come as the place where the lacrosse team did something bad to a stripper.
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Title Annotation:Editorial
Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Article Type:Editorial
Date:Apr 13, 2007
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