tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post115634286306422926..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: More on Procedurekcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-74392477000923083712007-09-10T02:18:00.000-04:002007-09-10T02:18:00.000-04:00Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will ...Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will bookmark!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-89099588522644994832007-09-04T13:31:00.000-04:002007-09-04T13:31:00.000-04:00Very interesting site. Blog is very good. I am hap...Very interesting site. Blog is very good. I am happy that I think the same!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-57265747392705767942007-08-18T06:40:00.000-04:002007-08-18T06:40:00.000-04:00Great article! Thanks.Great article! Thanks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-13364696999732057712007-05-14T15:35:00.000-04:002007-05-14T15:35:00.000-04:00Chemerinsky is actualy not as highly regarded as y...Chemerinsky is actualy not as highly regarded as you claim. He's a very smart professor, but he's considered a very prolific drudge more than a path-breaking scholar. He's certainly not considered one of the top 20 legal minds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-36370437753537566002006-10-18T18:30:00.000-04:002006-10-18T18:30:00.000-04:00I'm not from North Carolina, and have only been to...I'm not from North Carolina, and have only been to your lovely state a couple of times for visits. My most memorable experience was a visit many years ago to the Biltmore Estate, which is at least as beautiful and majestic as advertised.<br /><br />Professor Chemerinsky is a very high-ranking professor at one of the foremost institutions of higher learning in the world. He is also considered one of the 20 most brilliant legal minds alive today and someone who is reputed to be on the short list to join the Supreme Court of the United States should a Democrat win the presidency in 2008. In addition, he sits on the board of the North Carolina ACLU and frequently argues appellate cases, and has the full realm of responsibilities and duties of a professor. In short, while he is an indisputably brilliant man, I doubt he even remembers the definition of the term "free time," nor would know what to do should he be confronted with it. That said, I doubt he would find such monomania to be a productive use of his time.<br /><br />On those notes, I have some thoughts for you to consider: Should he become a Justice of the SCOTUS after having made specific statements on this case, he would be required to recuse himself should this case or the eventual lawsuit by the accuded end up before him. Second, while he does have obligations to the ACLU, his more immediate concerns are his responsibility as an attorney to his clients and as a professor. Third, he is fairly new to the Durham area. Finally, I doubt he gained his numerous awards and accolades by speaking before he had all of the facts available. Wasn't that, combined with Nifong's cynical effort to preserve his job by abusing his power in a particularly egregious manner, what caused this mess in the first place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1156393388632340212006-08-24T00:23:00.000-04:002006-08-24T00:23:00.000-04:00I did a search on the North Carolina ACLU website,...I did a search on the North Carolina ACLU website, and could find no mention at all of the Duke case. <BR/><BR/>http://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org <BR/><BR/>Daniel Bowes, student head of the ACLU at Duke is quoted on Durham in Wonderland as writing:<BR/><BR/>"As the initial facts concerning the case became clear, it was obvious to the ACLU @ DUKE's members that what D.A. Nifong was doing was unethical, inappropriate, and illegal."<BR/><BR/>http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/08/valuing-procedure.html <BR/><BR/>Has the NC ACLU made any public commentary on the case? Their Duke chapter is saying that an illegal and unethical prosecution is taking place in their state. <BR/><BR/>My understanding is that Professor Chemerinsky sits on the board of the NC ACLU. What does the NC ACLU have to say about about the head of their Duke chapter's comments?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1156389832689024782006-08-23T23:23:00.000-04:002006-08-23T23:23:00.000-04:00I'm surprised, and more than a little disappointed...I'm surprised, and more than a little disappointed, that "[b]y his own admission, Chemerinsky has not followed the lacrosse case closely."<BR/><BR/>WTF?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1156388752670120232006-08-23T23:05:00.000-04:002006-08-23T23:05:00.000-04:00Is that the best a great moral titan can do, where...Is that the best a great moral titan can do, where there is a lynching being conducted right on his very doorstep? <BR/><BR/>Elie Wiesel said, “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”<BR/><BR/><BR/>Chemerinsky can't even do that much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1156384067440559592006-08-23T21:47:00.000-04:002006-08-23T21:47:00.000-04:00Isn't what Nifong has done a crime?Isn't what Nifong has done a crime?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-1156355372568657402006-08-23T13:49:00.000-04:002006-08-23T13:49:00.000-04:00When prosecutors do what Nifong has done, they des...When prosecutors do what Nifong has done, they deserve to be disbarred, not outrageAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com