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Cohan's Trials

By K.C. Johnson

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Now that his publicity tour appears to have ended, I thought it might be worthwhile to have two short concluding comments on the work of William D. Cohan. (You can read all of my Cohan-related posts here.)First: a mantra of Cohan?s tour was the author?s purported intention to have the book function as a trial in the case. He described the book in this odd manner on Morning Joe, WNYC, WAMC, C-SPAN, the Michael Smerconish Show, and the Diane Rehm Show.Leave aside, for a moment, the obvious: in the United States, political trials of the type that Cohan seems to have wanted don?t occur. Instead, when prosecutors (in the lacrosse case, Jim Coman and Mary Winstead, and through them Attorney General Roy Cooper) believe that the defendants are actually innocent, the prosecutors have an ethical obligation to dismiss charges...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on July 01, 2014 (boomark / email).