 Jim Cooney, the lawyer of one of the three Duke University lacrosse players involved the 2006 Duke lacrosse case named "The Herald-Sun" in a press conference that was televised live on many national news networks on April 11, 2007.Saying that "The Herald-Sun" is one of the major "cowards" of the case, Cooney stated that "The Herald-Sun" empowered Nifong to go forward with a weak case by not "bother[ing] to stand up and demand proper processes [and] the presumption of innocence," while "publishing what they knew were lies, and repeating them.