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ifeminists
November 15, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
Nifong's Elected. Will 'Duke' Proceed? Mike Nifong, won the election for D.A. that has been so intimately linked to the Duke University rape case. He still faces two basic alternatives: dismiss the case or go to trial. What will happen now that he has won a full term?   |
ifeminists
December 20, 2006
Wendy McElroy |
Immunity May Not Protect Duke Prosecutor Absolute immunity was never meant to suppress evidence, dilute police procedure, or violate civil rights. But when checks and balances within the system refuse to work, then it becomes a blank check on the use of power. |
ifeminists
January 31, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
Continuing to Defame the 'Duke 3' as Rapists Every day it becomes clearer: the three Duke University students accused of kidnapping and sexual assault are innocent. Why does defamation of the accused continue? |
Salon.com
January 2, 2001
David Lindorff |
The death penalty's other victims When prosecutors eliminate jurors opposed to capital punishment, they also weed out women and minorities and stack the deck against defendants... |
ifeminists
December 27, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Winners of the Coveted 2007 Award for Political Incorrectness The Duke lacrosse case represents an enduring failure of the American mainstream media. |
ifeminists
January 10, 2007
Wendy McElroy |
In Duke Rape Case, Accused Fight Back The legal and moral travesty that is the Duke 'rape' case is winding down. The aftermath is commencing -- but what will it look like? |
ifeminists
April 30, 2007
Stephen Baskerville |
Duke Case Demonstrates Feminist "Justice" Decades of pursuing illusory, subjective, and politically defined "justice" have left Americans so incapable of distinguishing guilt from innocence that we are now inured to the most open injustice. |
Reason
January 2004
Cathy Young |
Kobe's Rights: Rape, justice, and double standards The case of Kobe Bryant's alleged sexual assault raises some serious issues about the way the justice system treats rape complainants and defendants. |
ifeminists
April 26, 2007
Carey Roberts |
VAWA Casts a Long Shadow over the Duke Fiasco Here's the dirty little secret of D.A.s who prosecute sexual assault and domestic violence cases: many of the claims they pursue are as flaky as a pie crust and their chances of winning a jury conviction are slim. So why do they bother to go after the case? |
Reason
February 2002
Cathy Young |
Excluded Evidence The dark side of rape shield laws... |
Reason
December 2007
Radley Balko |
No Money, No Justice Do public defenders deserve scorn, or bigger budgets? Book review: Defending the Damned: Inside Chicago's Cook County Public Defender's Office, by Kevin Davis. |
ifeminists
April 19, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Lynch Mob Fever at Duke University "Outrageous" is the word that comes to mind that describes what happened to the Duke Three, accused of gang-raping Crystal Gail Mangum. |
Reason
January 2003
Walter K. Olson |
Courting Stupidity Why smart lawyers pick dumb jurors. |
ifeminists
January 6, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Prosecutor Grandstanding Undermines Justice If the goal in a rape trial, like any other law enforcement action, is to protect the innocent, the obvious solution is to name neither party until after a trial verdict. But police and prosecutors do not advocate this remedy. |
ifeminists
July 25, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Rarer than Rabies: The Legacy of Michael Nifong Michael Nifong's malfeasance has thrust the problem of prosecutorial abuse back into the public eye. |
ifeminists
November 14, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Until Proven Innocent: Cultural Marxism at Duke How did a drug-addled stripper succeed in smearing the reputations of three Duke lacrosse players? That's the question that Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson pose in their recent bell-ringer book, Until Proven Innocent. |
PC World
December 17, 2002
Matt Berger |
Verdict Delivers Blow to the DMCA Jury finds ElcomSoft not guilty, a ruling seen as a setback for enforcing the controversial digital copyright law. |
ifeminists
June 9, 2007
Carey Roberts |
Lots of Lucre in False Claims of Abuse In a country that prides itself on the "innocent until proven guilty" principle, how do we account for these legal travesties in which the following four women made phony allegations of abuse? |
ifeminists
September 8, 2004
Carey Roberts |
Kobe Bryant: Alice-in-Wonderland Justice The dismissal of rape charges against the basketball superstar has triggered a lively debate how the decision will affect sexual assault cases in the future. |
Salon.com
March 13, 2002
Suzanne O'Malley |
Worst-case scenario I knew it was coming, but it's still hard to accept: In Texas, mental illness is not a defense to murder... |
Psychology Today
Mar/Apr 2007
Matthew Hutson |
Unnatural Selection There's a thriving industry built on the scientific selection of jurors, but social psychologists aren't sure just how accurate it is, or whether it gives legal adversaries an edge. |
ifeminists
June 9, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
How to Form an Informed Opinion Like it or not, personal opinion of court cases has become part of the process of justice in America. How to make a judgment based more on facts and less on rhetoric. |
Reason
April 2007
Jacob Sullum |
You Call That A Secret? Plugging leaks with subpoenas at the Justice Department. |
The Motley Fool
April 2, 2004
Rich Smith |
Tyco's Kozlowski Walks The judge in the Kozlowski-Swartz case has declared a mistrial. |
Reason
February 2006 |
Letters Run Away, Jury!... Rubbish!... Clay S. Conrad... Freedom Riders... etc. |
ifeminists
July 26, 2006
Carey Roberts |
The Kiss-and-Accuse Capers Few men have the financial wherewithal of a former NFL player, sitting judge, or media personality. So when they are accused of domestic violence, men often find themselves dragged into a legal machinery that eventually leaves them penniless, disillusioned, and broken. |
ifeminists
October 28, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Kobe Case Puts Victims' Rights on Trial A growing belief that false accusations of sexual assault have become commonplace has prompted a demand for fairer treatment of those accused, especially from the media. |
Salon.com
November 5, 2000
Robert Bryce |
Prosecutor says Bush "directly deceived" him to avoid jury duty The GOP candidate "used his position as governor" to avoid questions about his past during jury selection in a 1996 drunken-driving case... |
ifeminists
August 30, 2006
Carey Roberts |
No Need to Keep Duke Rape Accuser's Name Secret The cat is out of the bag. The identity of the Duke rape accuser has been widely disseminated on the radio, via the internet, in public legal documents, and in an encyclopedia. |
AskMen.com
April 3, 2002
Justin Becker |
How To: Get Out Of Jury Duty If you happen to not want to go, there are ways to go about escaping. Or at least attempt to... |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Ryan Flinn |
Social Media: A New Jury Selection Tool Web-savvy lawyers and legal consultants are scouring social media to investigate jurors' backgrounds and biases. |
ifeminists
October 20, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
In Kobe Case, Accuser Is Rightly Identified The accuser swings between demanding privacy and taking public action. As a practical matter, it is becoming increasingly apparent that those who bring accusations cannot have both. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Mike France |
Courtroom Strategies On Trial Recent high-profile verdicts have prosecutors and defense attorneys rewriting their playbooks. |
ifeminists
April 7, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
Lies of Faux Victims Cast Doubt on Real Ones Will you be willing to believe the next woman (or man) who claims to be a victim? |
Reason
April 2009
Anderson & Jackson |
Putting Stars Behind Bars How did breaking sports rules become a federal offense? |
| AskMen.com |
Spies Like Them Two acquitted on the charge of economic espionage against the U.S. could face a retrial on three other counts on which a jury deadlocked. |
Reason
March 2002
James Morrow |
Bye-Bye, Jury Britain is poised to eliminate almost two-thirds of all jury trials, according to a report in the New Statesman. New rules would allow a wide range of offenses (including any crime with a maximum sentence of less than two years) to be tried solely by a judge employed by the crown... |
ifeminists
June 26, 2007
Carey Roberts |
The Disgrace of the Duke 88 These 88 Duke professors acted in a scurrilous manner to foster race hysteria, inflame gender relationships, and trample on the due process protections for three men falsely accused of the crime of rape. |
Reason
October 2003
Kerry Howley |
Jury-Rigged: Sidestepping the Constitution The federal government has transformed grand juries into "inquisitorial bulldozers that run roughshod over the constitutional rights of citizens," warns a new study from the Cato Institute. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
January 1, 2013 |
Product Liability Claims and Comment K Courts across the country are making it easier to prove that a drug is unsafe, warning label notwithstanding. |
InternetNews
April 9, 2009
Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft's Patent Tab: $388M Ought to Do It Jury finds that Microsoft infringed a California company's activation software patent to the tune of nearly $400 million. |
Sports Central
March 31, 2011
Charles Coughlin |
Bonds: Hearsay and the Home Run King Barry Bonds has a legitimate shot of beating a perjury charge for which the whole world knows he's guilty. |
