The attorney general from North Carolina says prosecutors have dropped all remaining charges against three Duke University Lacrosse players accused last year of sexually assaulting a woman.
Roy Cooper Wednesday said there was insufficient evidence to proceed on the charges of kidnapping and sexual assault against the three athletes.
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Cooper also criticized the former prosecutor on the case for rushing to accuse the defendants.
Last March, a woman said she was assaulted at a lacrosse team party where she had been hired to perform as a stripper. Initial rape charges against the defendants were dropped in December, when the accuser told investigators she was uncertain about crucial details.
The case received a great deal of media attention, in part because of its racial and class overtones. The accuser is a black student at a public university, while all three defendants are white and attended the elite private school.
Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.