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It was only a matter of time -- 3 Duke Lacrosse players file lawsuits

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by outofplace, Oct 5, 2007.

  1. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21149283/

    Hadn't seen this on the board yet. Not surprising, but anything bad that can happen to Nifong is good.
     
  2. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    They need to sue the university too. Duke should be paying for their education and their children's education too.
     
  3. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Jesse's already taking care of the lying whore, so Duke should pick up the tab for the innocent. I wonder what the Gang of 88 will say in their depositions?
     
  4. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You'd like to think that, you'd like to think they'd go after the school and anyone associated with it who opened their mouth... alas...
     
  5. hondo

    hondo Well-Known Member

    And we know those kids so need the money.
     
  6. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    That doesn't mean that they weren't wronged.

    Yes, they were rich SOBs. But they were wronged as we/Mike Nifong did another rush to judgment job that played along race and (never mentioned, but just as important, highlighted by hondo's comments) class lines.
     
  7. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Exactly. You can't exactly sue the guilty parties to simply, "be treated like we were. ..." They deserve anything they can get. What happened was a horrible injustice, financially in need or not.
     
  8. I hope they win a bundle, most of which will be spent on their project to bring light to cases just like theirs.
     
  9. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    This one is true, they don't need the extra cash.

    It would be the proper thing to do to donate funds to such a project.
     
  10. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    One kid was quoted that when he dies, somewhere it will be written that he died and then it will be mentioned that he was one of the Duke lax players accused of...

    Rich or not, these kids deserve something. If it comes out of Duke's and Durham's and anyone else they can think of backsides, so be it.
     
  11. outofplace

    outofplace Well-Known Member

    Agreed. The only sad part is those professors that turned on these kids has gotten off unscathed.
     
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    And the university president is able to do the same with an apology last week that sounded like little more than a "my bad".
     
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