Well for a while now we have known how the accuser has been treated. Jesse Jackson setting her up with a fund for education. Trying to better her life, all the while no apology to the accused or to those who were drug through the mud with them.

Well fortunately now some measure of justice is raiseing its head. The question will be will they actually see justice.

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38 lacrosse players sue Duke, Durham
'A horrifying personal nightmare'

http://www.charlotte.com/109/story/503363.html

Anne Blythe
(Raleigh) News & Observer
Thirty-eight members of the 2006 Duke University lacrosse team say they suffered emotional distress and other injuries when Duke remained silent about evidence that contradicted an escort service dancer's allegations of gang rape.

In a news conference today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., the players plan to outline details of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in North Carolina's Middle District.

"For more then a year, the lacrosse players were caught up in a horrifying personal nightmare," Chuck Cooper, the Washington-based lawyer handling the case, said in a statement. "They were harassed in class by teachers and their fellow students ... They were victimized by a corrupt investigation that ignored or suppressed evidence that would have cleared them. And, all for a crime that never took place."

This is the third lawsuit that Duke University and the city of Durham face tied to the infamous Duke lacrosse case. Duke administrators declined to comment, saying they had not seen the complaint. Durham officials said they also did not know details of the suit.

Only three members of the 47-player 2006 team have not filed suit.

The players' suit does not name former District Attorney Mike Nifong as a defendant because he has filed for bankruptcy and is offered protection by federal bankruptcy law, Cooper said. However, the suit condemns Nifong, saying he hid and fabricated evidence, tampered with and intimidated witnesses, rigged photo lineups and ignored and hid evidence pointing to the players' innocence.

Their suit comes almost five months after Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann -- the three players who were charged and then exonerated -- filed a suit in federal court.

The three exonerated players alleged that Mike Nifong, the city of Durham, the DNA laboratory hired by Nifong and others associated with the case conspired to falsely charge the former Duke students with rape. The charges stemmed from a team party in March 2006 where an escort service dancer alleged that she had been gang raped.

The exonerated players' suit contends that Nifong, Durham police and others conspired to bring charges even though they knew that the allegations were "a total fabrication."

Duke University reached a confidential settlement with those three players shortly after state Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped the charges.

Late last year, Breck Archer, Ryan McFadyen and Matt Wilson, three players not charged in the criminal case, filed a lawsuit against Duke University, Nifong, the city of Durham and numerous others they accused of being part of a vast conspiracy.

Their 400-page complaint, filed by Robert Ekstrand, a Durham lawyer, lists 35 causes of action that include negligent infliction of emotional distress and fraud

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I think that the case should also include the accuser and her school fund. After all she was the one who started all this nonsense.