Taylor and Johnson and Duke

A WSJ editorial on Duke by the two journalists most responsible: KC Johnson, whose blog has made mincemeat of the prosecution, and Stuart Taylor, whose August article in Slate helped nudge DA Nifong's misconduct into focus.

Money quote:

The case is now unraveling so rapidly as to be ridiculed on "Saturday Night Live." Mr. Nifong is on his way to being disbarred, unless North Carolina's legal establishment wants to be held up to national scorn. He faces lawsuits and at least a remote risk of federal criminal investigation. As for Durham's black leaders, and many in the media, and much of Duke's faculty, history will mark them down as enablers of abusive, dishonest law enforcement tactics. They will share responsibility for the continued use of such tactics, mainly against black people, after the Duke lacrosse players' innocence has become manifest to all serious people and the spotlight has moved on.

Read the whole thing.