A Gutless Lynch Mob::By Thomas Sowell
"Just before the Attorney General of North Carolina appeared on television to announce his decision on the Duke University 'rape' case, one of the many expert TV legal commentators said that Attorney General Roy Cooper would probably use the words 'insufficient evidence' but not the word 'innocent' in dismissing the case.
As it turned out, the Attorney General did use the word 'innocent,' saying that he and his staff considered the accused students innocent. It was the only decent thing to do.
Anything less would have let the ugly accusation follow them for life and, years from now, when all the details of this sordid story have long since been forgotten, hang over their heads with a suspicion that they got off on some legal technicality.
What a difference a year makes. A year ago, there was a lynch mob atmosphere against the accused students -- from the Duke University campus to the national media, and including the local NAACP and the ever-present Jesse Jackson."
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