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David Evans, left, Collin Finnerty, center, and Reade Seligmann, right, look on during a news conference in Raleigh, N.C., April 11, 2007. - Chuck Burton/AP/File
Duke lacrosse players wore No. 45 on their warmup jerseys in support of teammate Reade Seligmann before a March 2, 2007, game at College Park, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images) (G Fiume ...
Mangum, a former exotic dancer, confessed on a podcast appearance last week to fabricating allegations that three Duke Lacrosse players, David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, sexually ...
The Duke lacrosse case was a widely reported 2006 criminal case hoax in Durham, North Carolina, United States, in which three members of the Duke University men's lacrosse team were falsely accused of rape. [1] [2] [3] The three students were David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann.
The St. John's lacrosse case was a 1990 criminal case in which some members of the St. John's University men's lacrosse team were accused of raping an African American female. [1] The St. John's Lacrosse rape case was a sports scandal that caused significant controversy within the school, amongst feminists, [ 2 ] New York City, and the lacrosse ...
The case attracted widespread media attention almost from the moment it became public. The apparent circumstances—three white males (David Evans, Reade Seligmann, and Collin Finnerty) from privileged backgrounds at an elite university apparently taking advantage of a student and single mother (Crystal Gail Mangum) from a crosstown black college (), trying to make ends meet by working as a ...
Magnum initially told police in 2006 that she was raped while attending a team party hosted by Duke's men's lacrosse team on March 13 that year. The players hired and paid her and another exotic ...
Publicity about the scandal spread quickly. National media highlighted the class and racial differences between Mangum and the players. At an African & African-American Studies forum on March 29 at Duke, organizers invited students "to voice their frustration with the current situation and, it became apparent, with the university as a whole". [4]