Here we go with the final chapters of the Duke Lacross Rape case. to summarize

1) Duke Lacross team has a party, strippers are invited

2) underage drinking occurs

3) one of the strippers, a black woman, with a past history accuses them of rape.

4) the DA, in a tight race for re-election takes the case

5) People are up screaming for these rich spoiled brats to face justice.

6) DNA testing is done to verify if a crime occurred

7) The accuser's background is made public, and her credibility is brought into question.

8) the DA calls the Duke players hooligans and swears that they will face a trial.

9) Charges of rape are brought on 3 of the players

10) DNA Testing shows that the 3 are innocent

11) The DA refuses to release all DNA Testing

12) the accuser' changes her story so many times, any reasonable person would question its truth.

13) Duke suspends the lacross teams season and fires the coach

14) the DA wins re-election

15) Pressure to drop the charges because there is no evidence increases

16) the DA turns the case over to the State AG for completion

17) the State AG drops the charges and calls the DA's actions deplorable

18) DA faces multiple charges both civil, criminal, and professionally

19) DA is disbarred for over 10 violations of conduct code but he shows no remorse

District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred Saturday for his "selfish" rape prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players -- a politically motivated act, his judges said, that he inexplicably allowed to fester for months after it was clear the defendants were innocent. "This matter has been a fiasco. There's no doubt about it," said F. Lane Williamson, the chairman of the three-member disciplinary committee that stripped the veteran prosecutor of his state law license. Even Nifong and his attorneys supported the decision, though the veteran prosecutor refused to admit to the end that no crime occurred at a March 2006 lacrosse team party

20) DA resigns from office and offers to leave middle of July

21) State superior court judge bars DA from office and removes him from his position ASAP

22) Duke and accused players reach settlement

The players said in a joint statement that they hoped the agreement would "begin to bring the Duke family back together again." "The events of the last year tore the Duke community apart, and forcibly separated us from the university we love," they said. "We were the victims of a rogue prosecutor concerned only with winning an election, and others determined to railroad three Duke lacrosse players and to diminish the reputation of Duke University."

23) NCAA gives accused players extra year of elegibility

OK now with all of this that has happened over the past 13 months, have we learned anything? I would say no, simply because there are still to many people who feel that they deserve something, and will do anything to get it. The DA in this case was so desperate to get elected after being appointed to the position last year that he failed to look at the whole picture, as well as failed to keep is personal feelings out of the case. He is lucky that he only lost his job and not all of his retirement and benefits. But that may well be coming as it looks like the 3 young men who were WRONGLY accused of this crime are looking into a civil case against the DA. I hope they take him for everything he has and he has to start over. I will not say that this is a liberal democrat that is getting busted, but what it is plain and simple is a person who let their ambitions and the public outcry and outright local hatred of a group that was better off than them cloud his decision making to the point that he eventually realized that he could not just walk away with out completely losing all credibility. He has convinced himself that a crime did occur, and that he simply pursued the wrong "criminals". Really sad if you ask me.