Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Durham-in-Wonderland

Criminal Law

: Durham-in-Wonderland

The Independent: "The Price of Silence Adds Nothing New to the Case or Our Understanding of It"

By K.C. Johnson

As Radley Balko has presciently observed, the pattern in reviews of author William Cohan?s book has been straightforward: overwhelmingly negative reviews from any reviewer who followed the case closely, coupled with glowing reviews from those who knew nothing about the case and appeared willing to uncritically accept Cohan?s musings without even wondering about the merits of using a convicted liar as the book?s chief source.(The sole somewhat-exception to the pattern: Susannah Meadows, whose review admitted that Cohan had failed to provide evidence for his something-happened thesis but nonetheless praised Cohan for producing new findings that either weren?t new or weren?t true.)Confirmation of the Balko pattern comes now from a most unexpected source, The Independent...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on May 07, 2014 (boomark / email).