The North Carolina attorney general has taken control of the “rape” case against the Duke lacrosse players, which district attorney Michael Nifong prosecuted so unjustly.

No hint of remorse from Nifong who, on the contrary, has declared himself “very disappointed” at giving up the case. What hubris, or what Dante called self-love “perverted to contempt for one’s neighbor” – the penalty for which in the Divine Comedy was a whipping inflicted to evoke feelings of humility. Nifong may not get whipped for his actions but he is getting his just desserts in the court of public opinion.