The Story of Prisoner F95488.
There's a rumble in the gallery. If his supporters could chime in now,
they'd say that the kid in the prison garb has never spoken an unkind
word or acted aggressively toward anyone. They would remind the court
of the points made at trial: that his accuser was a woman with little
memory of what happened that night because of a near-toxic blood
alcohol level; that Frimpong's DNA wasn't found on the victim; that
semen found on her underwear belonged to a jealous boyfriend, a white
student who was never a suspect. They would argue that overzealous law
enforcement was determined to nail a high-profile athlete, facts be
damned, and that this was the Duke lacrosse case all over again --
except that the defendants in the Duke case were white men from
affluent families with the means to navigate America's justice system,
unlike Frimpong, who is poor and an immigrant.
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