Edited sentence: "Dozens of law review.' Also based on police records, Kanin determined that 50 percent of the rapes reported at two major universities were 'false.'"  However, that number is considered unusually high, and a much more widely cited statistic for false rape accusations is 2% of rape reports.A recent notable case of a false rape accusation in the media was the 2006 Duke University lacrosse case, which ultimately led to the clearing of the accused (male) students and the disbarment of the prosecutor who pursued the case.However, as often if not always the case in false rape cases, the accuser was not charged with any crime.In a study conducted by Eugene Kanin of Purdue University, Kanin examined 109 rape complaints registered in a Midwestern city from 1978 to 1987.In that case, the alleged victim refused to testify at trial and settled her potential civil claims against Bryant out of court.Of these, 45 were ultimately classified by the police as 'false.One law review article has investigated the 2% figure and found it to be baseless.The Kobe Bryant sexual assault case from 2003 is an example of a rape accusation whose truth or falsity was widely debated in the media but was ultimately never answered with any certainty.The primary reason the charges were dropped was because the prosecutor admitted that she lied during a mock trial cross-examination conducted by the prosecution team.This empirical fact, however, is an ideological fabrication.articles reiterate that no more than one in fifty rape complaints is