Woman Admits She Lied About Duke Lacrosse Players Raping Her Nearly 20 Years Ago: 'I Made Up a Story'

[Sympthsical]

1. I remember that

How the university, particularly the faculty, ganged up against them - and never apologized. Those people didn't feel like they answered to anybody. Then the DA tried to railroad the accused to the point he and the DNA lab conspired to withhold evidence that would exonerate them. Everyone broke into ideological camps. People usually very interested in how police and prosecutors wrongly accuse and convict someone went completely radio silent.

And long after it was proven false - and the DA was disbarred for how he tried to ruin those mens' lives - people continued to insist "Something must've happened!"

It was an object lesson in the dangers in seeing matters of crime and justice purely through a partisan or ideological lens.

Good thing people are more sensible and we've moved past that sort of thing. We would never determine guilt or innocence based on politics these days. That'd be gauche.