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Defense attorneys have stressed for months that no sex occurred at the party and they have cited DNA testing that found genetic material from several males in the accuser's body and her underwear — but none from any member of the lacrosse team.

Vince wrote:This trial is so over.

TheCatt wrote:

Vince wrote:This trial is so over.

We wish.

Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong dropped charges of first-degree rape against former Duke lacrosse players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans.

A motion filed today cited "insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution" as the reason behind the dismissal.

ABC News has learned that the prosecution only interviewed the alleged victim in the Duke University sexual offense case for the first time yesterday.

"It's great news," Kevin Finnerty, father of Collin, told ABC News today.

In that same court document, Nifong said the accuser "cannot at this time testify with certainty that a penis was the body part that penetrated her vagina."

Under North Carolina law, such penetration is a necessary fact that must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt for a rape conviction.

According to North Carolina statute 14-27.2., "a person is guilty of rape in the first degree if the person engages in vaginal intercourse."

The dismissal papers added that "since there is no scientific or other evidence independent of the victim's testimony that would corroborate penetration specifically by a penis, the state is unable to meet its burden of proof."

Nifong is still proceeding with two other charges of kidnapping and first-degree sexual offense against the three indicted men. All of the charges are class B1 felonies and all three are related to the accuser's description of being held down and assaulted in the bathroom of a lacrosse team house at 610 N. Buchanan Boulevard.

RALEIGH, N.C. - The North Carolina bar filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case, accusing him of saying misleading and inflammatory things to the media about the athletes under suspicion.
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Nifong was also charged with breaking a rule against "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation." The bar said that when DNA testing failed to find any evidence a lacrosse player raped the accuser, Nifong told a reporter the players might have used a condom.

According to the bar, Nifong knew that assertion was misleading, because he had received a report from an emergency room nurse in which the accuser said her attackers did not use a condom.

"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," former dean Karla Holloway wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus. "Despite our judgments about the prosecutors own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process."

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"The decision by the university to readmit the students, especially just before a critical judicial decision on the case, is a clear use of corporate power, and a breach, I think, of ethical citizenship," former dean Karla Holloway wrote to Duke's black faculty caucus. "Despite our judgments about the prosecutors own lack of principled conduct, it is not ours to become the judge or subvert the process."

So... is she not judging?