>>>>>Yeah, I know they were innocent. They did get screwed over though, and lost their scholarships and probably made the rest of their lives a little harder.
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>>>>>However, when I think back on some of the wild things I used to do, and think about how I grew out of it, I can't help to put myself in their shoes. What would have happened if I lost my financial means to college because of some false accusations? What would have happened if I had my face plastered all over the TV for something horrible like this that I did not do?
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>>>>>Just because they weren't innocent in college doesn't mean they would not have matured into good, successful people.
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>>>>>I'm not trying to get on a soapbox or anything, but I just keep putting myself in their shoes and I get really angry about what happened to them.
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>>>>You have a point. Most of us did some did some dumb stuff in college we wouldn't want all over the media.
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>>>>I guess what bothers me about the "exoneration" is that these guys were all born with silver spoons in their mouths and now we are expected to view them as not only wrongly accused but victims themselves. I hear the sound of big money talking. It always does.
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>>>I've heard the silver spoons reference before. Why do people say that about them? I'm not debating - I really don't know. Do we know that they grew up in rich families?
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>>http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/11/60minutes/main2082140.shtml
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>What does their wealth (or lack of wealth) have anything to do with wheather they were falsely accused or not?
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>Wealthy guy, NiFong, is given a pass?
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>I'm not really directing my question at you Mike. I'm just think'n out loud. :)


Their families' wealth has nothing to do with whether they were falsely accused, and I didn't say it did. But I bet it has been put to extensive use "clearing" their names.