The Duke lacrosse rape case continued to unravel this week with some of the charges being dropped, and the North Carolina state bar association filing complaints against the DA's inept handling of the entire affair.
The "victim" keeps changing her story and it's clear that there isn't enough evidence to carry anything forward. In addition, blunders in the interviewing of the victim (it never happened) and improper line-up identification procedures added to the prosecutor's problems. His prosecution of the suspects in the media is the main basis for the state bar complaints against him; the case against the DA opened two weeks after the woman reported the alleged rape.
Even if something did happen, the victim is unreliable. She's changed her story so many times that the entire case has been seriously undermined.
The remaining charges should be dropped.
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