When Prosecution
becomes Persecution …

Does being a rich, white, college jock make you a sexist, racist “Hooligan”?

How did a rogue prosecutor without a shred of credible evidence convince the nation that three innocent lacrosse players were guilty of committing a heinous gang rape?

The Duke Lacrosse “Rape” Case is stark reminder of the destructive power of racism fueled by political correctness

Convenient stereotypes may make for good television but should never be the basis for criminal prosecution. The brutal nightmare is now over for the “Duke Three”—David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann. But this travesty of justice has left an indelible mark, and begs the question: How could this have ever happened? 

In A Rush to Injustice: How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshadowed Truth and Justice in the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, lawyer and Duke alumnus Nader Baydoun, and New York Times best-selling author and attorney Stephanie Good, deconstruct this historic case and expose egregious misconduct that stretches all the way from Durham, North Carolina, to Washington, DC.

With new evidence, inside details of the criminal investigation, and first-hand interviews with principals in the case, Baydoun and Good expose the political pandering of a District Attorney, his neglect of crucial evidence, the way in which he stacked the case against the accused, and how he tenaciously proceeded with the case based on unreliable and totally inconsistent statements from the accuser -- all to ensure his reelection.

Baydoun and Good take to task Duke University’s administration for the shocking lack of support shown for their own students. Baydoun and Good also show how the Board of Trustees at Duke University was all too willing to throw the accused players to the wolves in order to avoid a “public relations” problem.

A Rush to Injustice is the first comprehensive look at all that went wrong in this landmark case that captivated the nation.  Putting his legal skills to work, Baydoun went back to his old almamater to conduct his own investigation. What he and Good discovered was a shocking story of crooked prosecutors, self-serving faculty members, turncoat administrators, irate, revenge-seeking neighbors and even, possibly, dirty cops pursuing their own agenda—a story far more frightening than was revealed by the media.

In A Rush to Injustice Baydoun and Good set the record straight by exposing the real facts of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, including:

• How the supervising police officer in the case was well known for his dislike of Duke students. Statistics confirm that Sgt. Gottlieb had gone out of his way to arrest Duke students, handcuff them, and put them in jail, while nonstudents who have committed the same offenses were treated much more leniently.
   
• How the young lacrosse players were almost hoodwinked into a major police interrogation without legal counsel or even the benefit of first speaking with their parents.
   
• How District Attorney Mike Nifong blatantly manipulated the Duke Lacrosse Rape case to get the upper hand against his political opponent.
   
• How the Board of Trustees and the administration at Duke University were so concerned about the image of the school that they decided to come down hard on the lacrosse team regardless of the validity of the case.
   
• How District Attorney Mike Nifong intentionally damned the players in the press even after he knew the DNA evidence would irrevocably vindicate them.
   
• How some students and faculty members were afraid to speak out on behalf of the lacrosse players.
   
• How the leader of the New Black Panthers Party (NBPP) claimed he was given access to Nifong’s “evidence”, and how the NBPP’s arrival in Durham only caused fear and confusion to break out in a city already divided.

A Rush to Injustice unveils the ugly truth of how prosecutorial misconduct, mixed with hate and bigotry, gripped the nation and brought an entire town, a great university, its lacrosse team, and the lives of three innocent young men to a grinding halt. With painstaking effort to dissect every fact in this case, Baydoun and Good shed some light on how this rush to injustice occurred, and why it must never happen again.