Innocent: Duke charges dropped
Photo credit: AP | Former Duke lacrosse players Collin Finnerty, left, and Reade Seligmann, right, sit in court with Seligmann's mom Kathy during a break in Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong's North Carolina State Bar trial in Raleigh, N.C. Nifong faces several ethics charges tied to his handling of the debunked Duke lacrosse rape case. (June 14 2007)
After a harrowing year burdened by accusations that they raped an exotic dancer at an off-campus party, three former Duke University lacrosse players now hope to return to some semblance of a normal life after they were exonerated yesterday on all charges.
North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper's unqualified proclamation that the players are innocent, and his criticism of the decision...
