What lessons should we learn from the false rape accusations made against the Duke lacrosse players?

The lesson is that colleges and others shouldn’t presume guilt based upon unproven accusations.   Guilt should only be presumed when an objective jury has carefully considered all the relevant evidence.  Similarly, we are supposed to practice innocent until proven guilty, but that is often thrown out the window when it comes to allegations of sexual assault.    

In this case, the evidence exonerating them was conclusive.  ATM video footage proved they were elsewhere when the crime allegedly took place.    It later came out the false charges were made by the accuser because she was in danger of losing custody of her child and believed if she was seen as a victim she would retain custody.   

#NeverBelieveHer

I think the biggest lesson and one that has become even more prevalent since the Duke case is that people will make unfounded accusations for political motives.   We see the same happening with many #MeToo accusations.   We especially see this with false claims of sexual assault because women who make false claims are almost never held accountable for doing so.   Consider that the woman making false claims against the Duke players never had charges filed against her despite committing perjury in a court of law.     

What we should learn is that people are to be considered innocent until proven guilty, but sadly we seem to be moving the other direction, assuming people are guilty until they prove their innocence and even when accusations are proven false, the damage is often already done.   

...We learned, once again, that anyone person or group that has become idolized by public relations and the media can literally grab women by the pussy, brag about in on national tv, then go play a round of golf. (..as certified by a previous potus.)

That this society thinks females and all minorities are weak and therefore must be protected with special laws. Thats why there are "protected" classes of people. 

In fact the ONLY group of people not "Protcted" are white hetero males, and since we are not protected, any lie or allegation against us will ALWAYS be treated a a reason to attack and vilify every last white hetero male in the West. All it takes is one allegation and a white male will lose hos job and professional standing forever.

Note the violence against women and minorities across Communist china and the central Asia. Note the intense violence against females  across the African continent. Not a peep about that.

Sadly this woke insanity is getting ready to double the size of the supreme court and install SCOTUS judges who hate everything about western civilization. 

Rape and sexual assault are female privileges that are weaponized against men through the proxy violence of false rape allegations 

yes lacrosse players have bigger sticks , she has to look at it first instead of saying no when he put it in and found out if it was too long .

One lesson I learned is that no matter how often or how publicly these men were exonerated, a large percentage of the population still thinks of them as rapists.  Any woman that makes a false rape accusation, must be exposed in a public forum for a long period of time, in addition to spending the rest of her life attempting to make reparations the man/men she ruined.

That making District Attorney an elected office turns that post into a political stepping stone rather than the civil functionary position it's meant to be. D.A. Nifong is hardly the first or the last of ilk to decide what to pursue or not to pursue based more on the desire for public approval than the rational dispensation of law. 

Well, let's see:

With respect to this type of crime, that names of neither the alleged victim(s) nor the accused  should be released to the public.  Such trials should be entirely closed , though in a nod to the advantgages of a free press, accurate recordings and transcripts should be kept for press examination AFTER a determination has been made.

Nancy Grace and the other shock jockeys of her ilk owe the world an apology and, frankly, SHOULD owe the accused libel damages.

Yeah, being an entitled a$$ is annoying to the rest of the world, but it isn't illegal, it doesn't mean you have committed a crime, and it doesn't mean agenda based groups (such as feminists) have the moral right to pillory you for crimes they wish you had committed so they could make their misguided point.