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Zeuslax wrote:This is going to be a good one and my next book. I've been told as you're reading it your blood starts to boil.....I guess that's a good thing with a topics such as this.

Zeuslax wrote:This is going to be a good one and my next book. I've been told as you're reading it your blood starts to boil.....I guess that's a good thing with a topics such as this.

HBO ACQUIRES RIGHTS TO BOOK ON DUKE RAPE CASE: Cable network to develop film about race and class issues surrounding prosecution.

*HBO has purchased rights to a book about the headline-making Duke Lacrosse rape case with plans to develop it into a movie.

"Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case," from authors Stuart Taylor Jr. and K.C. Johnson, chronicles the prosecution of three white Duke U. lacrosse players for the alleged gang rape of an African American stripper at a team party on campus.

According to Variety, HBO's adaptation will explore the dynamics of racism and class issues that made the case a national story.

According to the book, Durham, N.C., district attorney Michael Nifong demonized the defendants in the media and fanned racial hatred to win black votes in his re-election campaign. He exacerbated the problem by withholding or ignoring crucial evidence that disproved his flimsy case. He was subsequently disbarred and disgraced, and all charges were dismissed by the attorney general of North Carolina, who declared the players innocent.

Taylor is a legal commentator who writes for Newsweek, and Johnson is a professor of history at CUNY. Their book was just published by the St. Martin's Press imprint Thomas Dunne Books.

StrykerFSU wrote:Are they bringing in Spike Lee to direct?