Time for U.S. Attorney General to Intervene in Duke Lacrosse Case

The situation in Durham has reached dire proportions. It is time, unfortunately, for the Attorney General of the United States to intervene in the Duke Lacrosse rape case.

This is a most unfortunate state of affairs for American jurisprudence. Under normal conditions local governments, including presiding judges within the local judiciary, would take appropriate action to prevent such a fiasco as we are now witnessing.

However, in the Duke case no one seems willing to step up to the plate to take the steps necessary to preserve justice for the accused and to protect the integrity of the criminal justice system in the state of North Carolina. Neither the presiding judge, nor the judicial system, nor any person in authority over such matters seem willing to intervene in a case that oozes corruption.

The reason for this is not far to find. The system itself in Durham is corrupt.

The mere fact that no one in the judicial system, nor local or state government, nor the Democrat Party has been willing to address the glaring problems, errors, and misconduct of the prosecutor's office implicates the entire lot in a shocking display of graft the likes of which has rarely been seen since the days of Huey Long in Louisiana.

Thus, it has come to down to federal intervention. This is the worst of all possible answers when it comes to judicial integrity, yet it is the best possible course to insure that a prosecutor and a case gone bad are overruled so that justice prevails in the lives of the innocent young men falsely accused. In the best of all possible worlds, it would never get as far as the U.S. Attorney General's office. The local judiciary (beginning with the presiding judge) could solve the problem in one sentence by dismissing the charges immediately and initiating its own investigations into Nifong's prosecutorial misconduct.

Since this very simple solution has been avoided by the local authorities, it becomes necessary for the U.S. Attorney General to step in to end a tragic circus, a travesty of justice that paints a dark cloud over the entirety of the American judiciary.

This is not merely a local problem any longer. It is an American problem.

Thus, the federal government must intervene, snatching the judicial system of Durham and the state of North Carolina from the jaws of graft so deep that the very foundation of justice itself is imperiled.

Justice may finally be done if this is, indeed, the outcome. However, the Democrat Party of Durham, the state of North Carolina, and the local and state judicatory will carry dark stains on its reputation for some time to come.