Roy Cooper: On Jan 13 I agreed to take over the cases, promising a fresh and thorough review of the facts and recommend the best way to proceed.

During the past 12 weeks, we have reviewed the remaining allegations of sexual assault and kidnapping. We reviewed the DA's and police evidence and conducted our own investigation.

We've interviewed people at the party, the DA, police officers, the accuser on several occasions, revieweed dna evidence and records.

The result shows clearly there is insufficient evidence on any the charges. We are filing dismissal of all charges against the three defendants. The cases are over and no more criminal proceedings will occurs.

The cases were the result of a tragic rush to accuse. There are significant discrepancies in the evidence.

We believe the three individuals are innocent of the charges.

The inconsistencies were so significant that we have no credible evidence that an attack occurred in that house that night.

The accuser wanted to go forward, but the contradictions in her account and the physical evidence could not be reconciled.

No evidence supports her version. The evidence contradicts her. She contradicts herself.

The eyewitness identification process was flawed.

The DA went ahead unchecked. Caution would have been better than bravado. He lost the ability to see clearly.

Whatever the reasons the case was pushed forward, the result was wrong. We must make sure it doesn't happen again.

As a father and husband and human, I hate rape. I want to see rapists punished. It is my job to see that rapes are abolished.

I think the way to do that is to make sure rapes are reported accurately.

I think that when you ignore the problem of false accusations, you get what happened to the Duke students. And that is not good for anyone. Duke is not going to make it easier for women to report rape.

So I don't think it's a good idea for you to ignore the problem of false accusations.

I think both jobs are both our jobs.

(If you only take the jobs that affect you most, don't you run straight into Pastor Martin Niemöller?)

but I think the poor fellow suffers from Male Victim Psychosis. An unfortunate affliction, apparently uncurable.

Yes, this is just the same thing that right wingers say about liberals that dislike George Bush.

"You libtards aren't rational! You have Bush Derangement Syndrome, BDS! IT's Just BDS, I AM NOT LISTENING!!!!!"

Instead of worrying about what I am suffering from, why not worry about what feminism is suffering from, and why such an important struggle and movement is alienating the majority of young women (and the majority of people?)

I often hear feminists say that the issue of false allegations affect very few people. Yes, they care, but they care more about all of the unreported acts of rape and domestic violence.

Yes, they care, but "their studies" show it is less than 2%.

There are many studies and lots of anecdotal information from prosecutors that show the rate is anywhere from 8% to 40%.

There are now some very prominent cases of false allegations.

What will it take for feminists to take this injustice seriously? In what sense is having your reputation, career, and life ruined from a malicious false allegation, or being thrown in jail, not WORSE than rape?

If feminists care only for more reported rapes, and do not care for keeping the rate of false allegations down, what will inevitably, mathematically, happen as more rapes are reported?

As you make it "safer" for women to report rape, and encourage women to report rape, you will also be making it safer for women to maliciously make false reports, and you will encourage that activity.

That's not misogyny, that's a simple acknowledgment of what happens when measuring any phenomena. It's a simple understanding of the meaning of "false negative" and "false positive."

An unreported actual rape is a false negative. A false allegation is a false positive. As you try to drive false negatives to zero, if you don't work to drive false positives to zero, false positives will rise.

The innocent men you are throwing in jail are fathers, sons, brothers, uncles -- American citizens.

How come feminists don't believe that it is better that 100 guilty people go free than to convict one innocent person?

How can feminism, a search and struggle to eliminate injustice, actively encourage and deny the existence of this horrible injustice.

It's pretty disgusting that your first response is concern for "I told you so."

I think your concern should be directed toward Broadsheet and feminist bloggers and feminism in general.

The events at Duke didn't occur to the men and the women.

There were also the actions of the Faculty of 88, the dipshit rants and raves of Amanda Marcotte's bigoted sexist hate speech.

Instead of worrying about "I Told You So", why don't you do some real journalism and discuss how modern feminism got so far on the wrong side of the facts and the American principle of "innocent until proven guilty?"

Does Broadsheet supported bigotry and sexism in pursuit of feminism? Does feminism support bigotry and sexism in pursuit of its goals?

Isn't that the concern you should have? Isn't that what you should be reporting on?

Damn it Salon, you publish an ignorant dipshit know-it-all bullshit artist like Paglia (now with global warming enzymes!). This just creates a competition of the best takedown letter, and then you don't let us vote on that letter.

Sheesh.