Ten Years After

[Perianne]

Yesterday was ten years after the horrific Duke lacrosse case in North Caroline. To sum it up, three Duke lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a stripper who was "performing" at a frat party. Duke President Richard Brodhead, as did many of the faculty, publicly sided with the stripper and cancelled the promising lacrosse season.

In the end, here is how they all ended up:

Crystal Magnum, the lying stripper who accused three men of raping her, is in a North Carolina prison, convicted of murdering her boyfriend.

Mike Nifong, the Durham District Attorney was eventually disbarred from practicing law due to his improper handling of the Duke lacrosse case. He was sued by lacrosse players for $180 million dollars and filed bankruptcy. In July 2014 there was a call for all the cases Nifong had prosecuted to be reviewed on the basis of his having been shown to ignore due process in some cases including the murder trial against Darryl Howard.

The North Carolina State Bar filed 32 ethics charges against him for “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.” He was found guilty on 27 charges and was disbarred in June of 2007

Reade Seligmann, one of the accused, left Duke and played lacrosse for Brown University. He got his law degree from Emory and after serving as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, is now an associate at Connell Foley LLP in Westfield, NJ.

Collin Finnerty, one of the accused, left Duke and played lacrosse for Loyola college. He is now an equity sales trader for Deutsche Bank in New York City.

David Evans, one of the accused, had already graduated from Duke when the charges were brought. He later earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After landing a plum job with Morgan Stanley in its investment banking analyst program. He remained there for two years before becoming a senior associate in the consumer team at Apax Partners in New York, where he works today.

Duke University privately settled with the accused students. It has been reported that each of the three accused students received a $20 million settlement, though an attorney for Seligmann says it was nowhere near that much money.



Crystal Magnum



Mike Nifong



From left to right, David Evans, Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann