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From The Washington Post:

RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 13 -- North Carolina's attorney general on Saturday promised a "careful and deliberate review" of the sexual abuse case against three Duke lacrosse players but noted that "anything can happen," even new charges, as his office reviews the evidence.

"Agreeing to accept the prosecution of these cases doesn't guarantee a trial, nor does it suggest a dismissal," Attorney General Roy Cooper said at a news briefing, one day after Durham District Attorney Michael B. Nifong asked Cooper's office to take over the case against the three players accused of raping a 28-year-old stripper at a team party last spring.

He emphasized that his prosecutors will be looking at this case with fresh eyes, and that while the review could lead to dropped charges, it could also lead to new charges or reinstatement of rape charges dropped last month.

"Whatever charges -- if any -- are appropriate would be pursued," he said.

Cooper also said his office would not talk about details of the case while it is reviewing the sexual assault and kidnapping charges against Reade Seligmann of Essex Fells, N.J., Collin Finnerty of Garden City, N.Y., and David Evans of Bethesda.

The takeover of the case comes after Nifong sought to recuse himself, and follows weeks of increasing criticism of his handling of the case. Last month, the North Carolina State Bar charged Nifong with ethics violations.

Nifong is an idiot. That much is obvious from looking at everything he has done up to this point. The question I have is this, how big an idiot is he? What I mean is this. If he had known that the case would blow up in his face and probably ruin his career he certainly wouldn't have taken it. If he was suicidal to that degree he would have already blown his brains out or slit his wrists.

So what led him to think he could get away with doing what he has done? Is it so common for district attorneys to frame innocent defendants that this seemed like just another day at the office for him? Is the only thing different about this case the amount of media attention that made it impossible to just railroad these young men?

Is Nifong so much of a left-liberal that it just never occurred to him that rich White college boys, and athletes to boot, could possibly be innocent of committing a crime against a Black woman?

Or was he just so stupid and evil that he figured that by the time he got around to dropping the charges because of the unreliable nature of the prosecution witness that the election would be long won and the media would have long ago turned its attention to the latest suicide bombing in Iraq and everyone would have forgotten about him and the Duke rape case?