Duke Mens Lacrosse Case Study

Duke University Mens Lacrosse Sex scandal was a major a highly covered event and publicized by the media. The basis of the scandal pulls from a plethora of different areas. Some of those areas are race, media bias and due processes on campus. The scandal took place in 2006 involving 3 Mens lacrosse players one of which is the captain of the team the names of these athletes are Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans. The accuser in this case was an African American student Crystal Magnum who attended North Carolina Central University. How the event took place and transpired was as so, The Duke Mens Lacrosse team was having a party at the location 610 North Buchanon Boulevard a house off campus that was being used for the players. …show more content…
Prior to the party magnum had performed for a couple using a vibrator before going to the Mens Lacrosse party. Later in the night a Mens lacrosse player sent an email to all of his teammates excluding two sayin that “To whom it may concern, tomorrow night, after tonights show, ive decided to have some strippers over to Edens all are welcome, however there will be no nudity. I plan on killing the bitches as soon as they walk in and proceeding to cut their skin off while cumming in my duke issue spandex . . all in besides arch and tack [two of his teammates] please respond. While the email was brought to the forefront the tone a nasty nature of the email was taken as serious thing so while the investigation of the rape was going on after that email came out the majority of people assumed that the Mens lacrosse players were guilty, Although later findings went on to show that the violent tone and nature of the email was a reference to a novel called American Physcho by Brett Easton Ellis

Now lets begin to dive in on how the investigation unfolded and how investigators judges witnesses and doctors all went about handling this it all