That’s the assessment of WNYC’s Jami Floyd, whose opinion should not be ignored:
Take the Duke Lacrosse case, in which the district attorney of Durham County, NC, Mike Nifong, failed every measure of prosecutorial conduct and judgment. He tried his case in the media for nearly a year, failed to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense and court even when he had it, and he was ultimately disbarred, fined and sentenced to a symbolic one day in jail.
In the DSK case, Vance is to be credited for his due diligence and coming to terms early on with the impossibility of proceeding with a accuser lacking credibility. At the same time, he and his investigators had to know what they were up against – a fully financed defense, with its own top-notch investigators that would no doubt uncover the same damning information about the accuser.
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Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Duke University Spectacle, Yes [Tawana Brawley, No]
That’s the assessment of WNYC’s Jami Floyd, whose opinion should not be ignored:
Read full article here.
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