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North Carolina has a fund to compensate people who've been falsey imprisoned. I can think of two cases - both men imprisoned for several years for rapes/murders they did not commit - where this fund was used. It's not a lot of money, but IIRC state law allows falsely convicted people to sue the state or local governments for damages as well.
However, I don't know if this applies to the Duke students because they were never convicted of anything. They may be able to at least recover some of their legal debt in a civil suit if they can prove that the police or DA's office acted improperly.
"Is it no wonder that most black alumni ignored her racist questionnaire? Only 89 students responded out of 400 who were asked for input."
So, among other things, the writer of this screed is ignorant of the basic principles of random sampling and survey response. In my line of work, if I got a 22 percent response rate, I'd do a little happy dance.
