US Supreme Court won’t take up Duke lacrosse case

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Source: Raleigh News & Observer

DURHAM — The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to take up the case of three former Duke lacrosse players who played on the 2006 team but who did not face the false criminal accusations that resulted in international headlines and several books.

In a brief, two-sentence summary published Tuesday, the nation’s highest court announced the decision in the case brought by Ryan McFadyen, Matthew Wilson and Breck Archer.

The players sued Duke University; Durham police investigators and city officials; Mike Nifong, the former Durham district attorney disbarred for his misconduct in the criminal case; and nurses who examined Crystal Mangum, the woman who made the false rape allegations.

As the case wound its way through the federal courts since it was filed in December 2007, the trio’s complaint was sharply narrowed by judicial rulings.

Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/11/12/3365278/us-supreme-court-wont-take-up.html

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See also Durham Herald-Sun: High court turns down lacrosse players’ appeal

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1. The whole thing was a travesty of justice

And a handful of DUers defended Nifong and Mangum to the bloody end and continued to bash the lacrosse players even after they were found innocent.