“Why were they filed in the first place?”
by William L. Anderson
According to the pundits, the time is coming that prosecutors finally drop the remaining charges of the Duke Non-Rape, Non-Kidnapping, and Non-Sexual assault case. Perhaps that is the case, but three young men, Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans, have lived with these false charges for 11 months, so the question really should not be “When will the charges be dropped?” Instead, it should be, “Why were they filed in the first place?”
While attending the Austrian Scholars Conference a couple of weeks ago, I found myself holding a number of impromptu sessions with people interested in the case. During one session, a woman asked me if there was not a possibility that the three men really were guilty. My answer to her did not seem to convince her, as she seemed to be of the belief that if one is charged by the state, such action automatically confers guilt.
Now, I should add that she seemed to be only one of two people to whom I spoke who was in disbelief, the other a former prosecutor who also was skeptical of what I was saying. Part of the reason for his skepticism, I would think, was that when he was in office, he tried to be honest, and figured that Michael B. Nifong and the police at worst might have been overzealous. A man in his position, who would not think of framing someone, might find it hard to believe that Nifong would present a bogus case from beginning to end.The prosecutor’s words notwithstanding, it is even clearer today that this case is not one of overzealousness; it is one of dishonesty, extreme dishonesty. To make that point, it is necessary to recall some of the things that happened in the early weeks of the case.
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