The Duke Lacross Case

I am so tired of everyone saying those "Poor Duke" kids got railroaded. First of all they are not poor. If they were poor those young men would all be in jail and no one would even question them being there. The fact of the matter is they had excellent legal representation that presented their case aggressively and effectively. No one really knows what these young men did that night, except those men and the victim.

Secondly prosecutors use similar tactics to convict poor people and minorities everyday. They throw the book at defendants hoping they will get scared and confess to a crime. Defendants become scared and plea to a lesser sentence. Many convictions are achieved with less evidence than the prosecutors had in this case had. Nobody cares when the victims of these tactics are poor young black men. The supreme Court even endorses these practices. Please do not say the Duke Lacross players are poor victims of the system. They are not poor and from what they admittedly did at that party they are not innocent either.

Brian Slaughter