This morning, KC (who co-authored this post) and I looked at two principal enablers of Mike Nifong’s efforts – – SANE nurse Tara Levicy and Durham Police Dept. sergeant Mark Gottlieb. Levicy is no longer working for Duke Hospital; Gottlieb remains on the job at the DPD. More broadly, this case provided a depressing glimpse […]
Author Archive | Stuart Taylor
Stuart Taylor responds:
Sorry to have been absent for awhile, but I am happy to note that while I’ve been giving a speech this evening to a North Carolina group (the Fair Trial Initiative) devoted to helping poor death row inmates, most of the responses to critical comments that I would have been motivated to write have already […]
Duke Coverage: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
As of early April, now at the head of the guilt-presuming pack, The New York Times vied from early April 2006 on in a race to the journalistic bottom with trash-TV talk shows hosted by the likes of Nancy Grace, CNN’s egregiously biased, wacko-feminist former prosecutor. The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, […]
Eskimo words for snow:
While in my native Kiev a couple of weeks ago, I picked up a Dictionary of Russian Vulgar Slang (Bol’shoi slovar’ mata). But this was only volume 1 of a multi-volume dictionary. This roughly 200-page volume was entirely devoted to the meanings and usage of the word “dick.” Volume 2, devoted to yet another word, […]
Media Mob Descends on Duke:
In late March of 2006, the journalistic echo chamber quickly spread the image of drunken, disorderly, publicly urinating lacrosse thugs around the world. It began with an appallingly biased five-column, front-page March 25 article in the Raleigh News & Observer. The headline — “Dancer Gives Details of Ordeal” — conspicuously omitted the word “alleged.” So […]
Nifong: The Banality of Evil
After learning of Crystal Mangum’s far-from-credible rape allegation, Mike Nifong moved on Friday, March 24, 2006 to take direct command of the eight-days-old police investigation, in a gross departure from standard procedures that avoided oversight of the investigation by any police official above the rank of sergeant. Meanwhile, the police and local papers dramatized the […]