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More on Duke's Peculiar Motion

By KC Johnson

As noted below, yesterday Duke filed a motion requesting that the "Duke Lawsuit" site be shut down, and also suggesting that the unindicted players' lead attorney, Chuck Cooper, violated ethics rules in holding a Washington, DC press conference to announce the suit.The stated rationale for the request is Duke's alleged concern that the publicity generated from the press conference could poison a jury pool in Greensboro, North Carolina. Leaving aside the fact that the ethics rule in question seems to allow the kind of remarks made by Cooper--which were designed to counter negative publicity "not initiated by the lawyer or the lawyer's client"--there are certainly less drastic ways (voir dire comes to mind) than a gag order or sanctions to deal with publicity from a Washington, DC press conference...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on March 01, 2008 (boomark / email).