KC Johnson, commenting on the statement by the North Carolina State Attorney General:
An astonishing statement from the state AG, a complete vindication of the players.The highlights:
(1) The players are innocent--not victims of a case with insufficient evidence, but innocent. This statement should leave no doubt as to whether a crime occurred.
(2) Nifong might be guilty of criminal misconduct.
(3) Nifong is a "rogue prosecutor."
(4) Lots of people owe the three players an apology, and a rush to judgment took place.
(5) The accuser has serious mental problems (hinted, very strongly, by the AG).
(6) North Carolina needs to change its laws to deal with rogue prosecutors in the future.
Lots more at Durham-in-Wonderland.
And Roger Kimball says that even if the AG acknowledges that the case should never have been brought...
...that does nothing to compensate the three lacrosse players for the humiliation and obloquy they have unfairly suffered at the hands of a media, and an academy, too full of the sour milk of self-righteousness to practice anything so antique as the presumption of innocence. As the French poet and polemicist Charles Péguy once observed, "It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive."Posted by dan at April 11, 2007 2:14 PM