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Dershowitz on UPI

By K.C. Johnson

Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz, discussing books on momentous legal cases in this week's WSJ:"Until Proven Innocent," an account of the Duke lacrosse case, should be ranked high among works that disprove the notion that those charged with serious crimes are invariably guilty and that those who are acquitted somehow beat the system. Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson pillory not only the prosecutor in the supposed sexual-assault case -- he was eventually disbarred after charges against the three players were dropped before going to trial -- but also the president of Duke University and those on his faculty who were willing to sacrifice innocent students as a bizarre form of racial reparation. The Duke case demonstrates how contemporary political correctness, run amok, can deform the legal system just as dramatically as other prejudices have in the past.continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on January 17, 2009 (boomark / email).