I put much of the blame for this travesty of a case on D.A. Mike Nifong.

I agree.  But lets not forget his massive racist and sexist cheering section that was desperate to believe the charges to be true in order to justify their own distorted world view.  The quote below from the one time Edwards campaign blogger is of that view.  He had plenty of enablers.

I had to listen to how the poor dear lacrosse players at Duke are being persecuted just because they held someone down and f*ked her against her will--not rape, of course, because the charges have been thrown out. Can't a few white boys sexually assault a black woman anymore without people getting all wound up about it? So unfair.

Perhaps the young will have taken a good look at their general conduct

I'm not sure whether you are referring to youth in general watching their conduct, the defendants taking a look at their own conduct or other youth looking at the defendants' conduct.

There are certainly lessons to be learned from all of this.  In this case, however, I don't know how much can be extrapolated from the conduct of the defendants (as opposed to the DA, the AV and perhaps some of their teammates).

There are too many people to blame but ultimately the biggest responsibility lies with Mr. Nilfong because the case was already out of control before he took center stage but he enabled it to last 18months instead of 3.   His self promotion gave the meat to the waiting feeding frenzy and his sheer incompetance or malice gave this case a life of it's own and ruined these boys lives.

He should be disbarred and the DA's ofice that let him run amouck should pay severely in civil court.  Duke should openly apologize to these boys and the media should do weeks of coverage about the injustice that was purportrated on them.  

So here you have a pretty well-respected prosecutor who worked his way up to be the district attorney, and yet, he was capable of royally screwing up a case so badly; he was capable of ruining the lives of three innocent people with seemingly no regard; he was capable of seemingly putting his own political ambition so far ahead of doing real justice.  That is what is scary.  If it was only the crooked DAs we had to worry about railroading people, I wouldn't be as worried.  But what this case shows, is that you can have a good DA essentially turn crooked in one case, and that case can cause a lot of harm to a lot of people.

if someone takes the law into their
own hands -- and attacks this woman -- how
will this "christian" feel about that?

how do the folks here feel about it?

i do understand that she may be subject
to a false prosecution criminal proceeding
of her own -- but does it make sense to
plaster her real name, her photo, and
the facts -- including the college she
attend[ed?], and her home-town -- all
over the internets?

i do recognize that the duke players'
photos and names have been published,
but this strikes me as beyond the pale.

any one else?

If that is true, how did that happen?  Aren't we the defenders of civil liberties, against racial profiling, against bigotry and sexism, and against railroading?

Do we tend to dismiss the rights of white guys and discount injuries against them?  (If we do, is it due to sexism and bigotry on our part?)

Will our liberal blogosphere make any mention of this or are we going to kind of hope it goes away?