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The mills of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small.(The Week)(Brief article)

National Review

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* The mills of justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small. Latest to learn this has been Mike Nifong, district attorney in Durham, N.C. Nifong's prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players went on for ten months, until the state attorney general's office took over the case in January, quickly dismissing all charges. The lacrosse players, all white, had been accused of raping a black stripper at a party in March 2006. It soon became apparent that there was no real evidence in the case, but Nifong pressed ahead anyway, in a transparent effort to garner black votes by harpooning three Great White Defendants. Now the state bar's disciplinary committee has stripped Nifong of his law ...

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