Duke prosecutor tells players sorry

The prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized to the athletes and said the state attorney general’s decision to drop the case was correct.

“To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused,” Durham County Dist. Atty. Mike Nifong said in a statement.

On Wednesday, Atty. Gen. Roy Cooper not only dropped the charges against players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, but also pronounced them innocent and said they were the victims of Nifong’s “tragic rush to accuse.”

Cooper branded Nifong a “rogue” prosecutor who was guilty of “overreaching.”