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Until Proven Innocent Until Proven Innocent was not only the book title, but also the concept that Duke University’s president Richard Brodhead expressed along with a few others throughout the Duke Lacrosse Rape case. Until Proven Innocent is a book by Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson. Throughout the book, the facts speak for themselves. Prosecutor Nifong willfully disregarded evidence of the boys’ innocence. Many of the Duke administration left the players out to dry so to speak. Many members of the community, media, and school rushed to assume guilt of the boys. The case started because the lacrosse team threw a party at a off campus house over spring break on March 13th. The catch, they hired two exotic dancers to perform at the party. …show more content…

After the police searched the house, they found Magnum’s Id, cell phone, Magnum’s makeup bag, and a few other belongings. The three players that live in the house, Dave Evans, Danny Flannery, and Matt Zash, helped answer any questions or anything that the police officer had. They offered information that wasn’t asked for. The three captains, tried to tell the story of what really happened. While the cops where searching the house, Flannery also showed officer Gottlieb the Allure website that they had ordered Magnum and Roberts from. The three, Flannery, Zash, and Evans, voluntarily went to the police station to submit DNA testing. They also offered to take lie-detector tests. They got taking into separate rooms to be interviewed. The three did not have legal representation during the interviews and DNA testing. During the interviews, the three captains answered every question. They wrote and signed detailed statements, and voluntarily gave DNA samples knowing that if any of their DNA were found in or on Magnum if would mean years in prison. The police took blood and hair samples. The three also gave the police passwords to their e-mail, instant messenger accounts. The three guys offered for the police to polygraph them but police turned down the opportunity. The Gottlieb team refused, saying that DNA would make or break the case and that the polygraph could not be admitted in

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