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November Events in the Case

By K.C. Johnson

November was a relatively light month in the case, with politics taking center stage:North Carolina's senior senator, Republican Elizabeth Dole, lost her bid for re-election. Ten weeks after AG Roy Cooper declared the players innocent victims of a rogue prosecutor, Dole had preposterously claimed that the lacrosse case was still ?an ongoing criminal investigation and pending judicial proceeding.?Cooper, meanwhile, received more votes than any other North Carolina statewide candidate, after leading off his campaign with a TV ad celebrating his work on the lacrosse case.And after her primary victory, Tracey Cline won an unopposed bid to become district attorney--meaning, as Freda Black recently pointed out in the Chronicle, that we won't find out the truth about the actual role that Durham County's new "minister of justice" played in the lacrosse case until the civil case trials...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).