<p><a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/04/05/duke.lacrosse.ap/index.html?cnn=yes%5B/url%5D">http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/more/04/05/duke.lacrosse.ap/index.html?cnn=yes</a>
New Evidence
Do you think they are innocent of guilty
please state your reason</p>
<p>Everyone should be treated as innocent until proven guilty.</p>
<p>I agree w/the Duke newspaper article:</p>
<p>bahahahaha... good stuff... makes u want to apply</p>
<p>guilty of what? That email is vile and disgusting and disturbing and i would never try to excuse it, but it is totally out of context. What is the context? Again, not trying to excuse it... it is a very disturbing email, but it was spring break, the author is drunk and just home from a wild party with strippers. You have no idea what sick things they were joking about earlier and the entire email is probably some kind of very very bad inside joke. </p>
<p>What I find most troubling are the news accounts of the email that state - [semi quote paraphrase] It is not clear whether the email is serious or a joke. pllleeeez! how can anyone suggest that email was serious?</p>
<p>Here's an article by Reuters about the incident:</p>
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By Gene Cherry</p>
<p>RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - Duke University's men's lacrosse coach resigned and the team's season was canceled on Wednesday after weeks of protests over an exotic dancer's allegations that she was raped by three men at a team party last month.</p>
<p>The actions, announced by the university in a statement, followed the release of a previously sealed warrant that said a person using the e-mail account of a lacrosse team player had sent a message saying he wanted to invite more dancers to his dormitory room to kill and skin them.</p>
<p>"Tomorrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over," the e-mail message said, according to the warrant affidavit. "However there will be no nudity. i plan on killing *****es as soon as the walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off."</p>
<p>The message was sent from the e-mail account of lacrosse player Ryan McFadyen shortly after the dancer, whose is black, told police on March 14 she had been raped by three white men at an off-campus team party the previous night, the warrant said.</p>
<p>"The court released today a previously sealed warrant, whose contents are sickening and repulsive," Duke University President Richard Brodhead said in his statement canceling the rest of the team's season. He previously suspended play until a police investigation of the alleged incident was completed.</p>
<p>Attorneys for the players have denied a rape took place, but the prosecutor has said he believes the woman's story.</p>
<p>The university also announced the resignation of Mike Pressler, who had had coached the nationally ranked lacrosse program for 16 years.</p>
<p>"I fully support President Brodhead's decision to cancel the remainder of the season as well as his outrage at the latest developments involving the men's lacrosse program," Duke Athletic Director Joe Alleva said in a statement. "I believe this is in the best interests of the program, the department of athletics and the university."</p>
<p>Protests have roiled the campus and the incident has attracted wide media attention as investigators await the results of court-ordered DNA tests of 46 of the team's players.</p>
<p>No charges have been filed but accusations by the dancer, a student at a predominantly black university in Durham, have heightened tension between residents of the North Carolina city and Duke, one of America's top universities.</p>
<p>McFadyen has been suspended from the university, his lawyer, Glen Bachman, told The News & Observer of Raleigh.</p>
<p>"I think it was a safety concern for him and the university," Bachman said in an interview, the newspaper reported on its Web site.
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<p>I think they are innocent. Insufficient evidence, there hasn't been any strong evidence against these guys. I also believe that they are innocent UNTIL proven guilty, not the other way around like the residents of durham seem to believe.</p>
<p>here's a picture of McFayden I found if anyone cares:</p>
