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Ekstrand Filings

By K.C. Johnson

Last week, Bob Ekstrand?on behalf of lacrosse players Breck Archer, Ryan McFadyen, and Matt Wilson?filed a lengthy series of responses to Duke, Duke Hospital, and various Durham officials. Ekstrand urged a broad view of case, with events the unfortunate if likely outcome of the Duke/Durham policy of treating Duke students as second-class citizens in the city: ?It was,? he wrote, ?not the natural consequence of a false allegation made by a drug-addled woman who, at the time, was in the midst of an apparent psychotic break, in police custody, and in the process of being involuntarily committed. It was the product of a well-worn policy and custom of police to deprive ?temporary residents? of their constitutional rights in all encounters with law enforcement...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 13, 2008 (boomark / email).