LIBERTY ALERT! ALL CHARGES TO BE DROPPED IN DUKE RAPE SCANDAL

Durham, NC (TLS). The Liberty Sphere has learned that all charges are to be dropped against the three accused students in the Duke lacrosse rape scandal. Paul Caulfield, writer for Inside Lacrosse Magazine, told FOX NEWS today that sources close to the case state that all of the remaining charges against the three students are to be dropped within the next few days.

Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong had already dropped the charges of rape when the accuser changed her story about what happened for a 2nd or 3rd time. But charges remained against the three for kidnapping and unspecified sex crimes.

Caulfield stated that his sources were not only defense attorneys in the case but others who would have the inside scoop on what to expect.

While Caulfield refused to specify who, exactly, provided him with this information, he implied that the information came from both the defense AND the prosecution. The North Carolina Bar had issued a scathing report in a brief filed this week on Mike Nifong, who is now a defendant charged with ethics violations, prosecutorial misconduct, and lying to the court.

In that brief the Bar expressed incredulity toward Nifong's defense of his behavior, which consisted of using previous erroneous statements to prove that he had not lied to the court.

In short, Nifong claims he did not lie by pointing to previous lies before the court--a most curious line of reasoning given that trying to prove one's trustworthiness by pointing to previous lies certainly doesn't help one's case.

The brief filed by the Bar has perhaps given us a foreshadowing of things to come, namely, that Nifong faces an uphill battle at best in coming out of this thing unscathed. Further, if records show that the accusers made false charges and that Nifong mishandled those false charges, then civil litigation on the part of the families of the three students is almost a certainty.

Taking the long view, that one brief filed by the North Carolina Bar this week may well be the signal of the end to this long nightmare. The predictions made by sources who spoke to
Paul Caulfield may be the confirmation of the broad speculation that the poignant words of the Bar concerning Nifong's behavior could well be the long-awaited sign that the North Carolina judicial system is finally ready to rid the state of this stain on its reputation.

We can only hope that Caulfield is right.