tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post874741616680945772..comments2024-02-24T05:19:10.949-05:00Comments on Durham-in-Wonderland: Assorted Legal Matterskcjohnson9http://www.blogger.com/profile/09625813296986996867noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-55285115960098985232011-11-21T19:51:33.159-05:002011-11-21T19:51:33.159-05:00One of the big stories in support of Joe Paterno i...One of the big stories in support of Joe Paterno is that he has prayed for the victims.<br /><br />He seems to be really that dumb that he does not know that the victims would have preferred him to call the cops.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-16322826441404442182011-11-19T16:22:05.159-05:002011-11-19T16:22:05.159-05:00But one comment on media coverage of the case. In ...But one comment on media coverage of the case. In Sunday’s <b>New York Times</b>, Mark Viera (whose sports reporting I enjoy) wrote the following, regarding the record of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno: “A grand jury said that when Mr. Paterno learned of one allegation of abuse in 2002, he immediately reported it to Mr. Curley. The grand jury did not implicate Mr. Paterno in any wrongdoing, though it was unclear if he ever followed up on his initial conversation with Mr. Curley or tried to alert the authorities himself.<br /><br />In fact, the grand jury report said something quite different. <br /><br /><b>“Immediately,</b>” it would seem to me, means <b>immediately</b>—not the next day. And given that the grand jury report—a report that lays out exactly who reported what, and when, to authorities—makes no mention of Paterno ever reporting the charges to authorities, saying that it’s “unclear” whether Paterno “tried to alert the authorities himself” strikes me as an unusually charitable interpretation of events.<br /><br />Wasn't the New York Times where Selena Roberts first became a columnist where she was paid to write columns based on facts not complete fabrications?<br /><br />What? She became a columnist in the year this real event happened.<br /><br />Neither fired Penn State University head football coach Joe Paterno nor the school's football program in general bears responsibility for the child sex abuse scandal that has enveloped the university, former PSU star and NFL Hall of Famer Franco Harris reaffirmed Friday during a videotaping of the TV show "KD\PG Sunday edition". "The university needs to take responsibility," Mr. Harris said. "I think the football program should not be implicated in this. ... Joe is a good man. [He] should not be implicated in this. Joe deserves an apology."<br /><br /><b>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</b><br /><br />If we accept that does it not mean that the Duke University Lacrosse team and coach deserved an apology for being tried in the media for an event that did not take place?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-74782277807273973722011-11-14T11:51:58.211-05:002011-11-14T11:51:58.211-05:00FYI, Duke Univ. spokesman John Burness is back in ...FYI, Duke Univ. spokesman John Burness is back in the news, this time offering advice to Penn State about how to recover from a scandal (http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2011/11/duke_university_spokesman_can.html). Note that Burness fails to distinguish between the Duke lacrosse case--a hoax that the university did all it could to foment--and the Penn State case of alleged pedophilia--by all appearances it actually occurred, and the university did all it could to suppress. But in the morally bankrupt world of Burness, such facts are of little, if any, importance. After all, as he states, people will move on, the news trucks will go away, and, hopefully people will forget the truth. Yet another example of that old saw, "those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-82138620897994428242011-11-13T20:35:06.928-05:002011-11-13T20:35:06.928-05:00I wonder if the PSU Board of Trustees acted as the...I wonder if the PSU Board of Trustees acted as they did based on advice of counsel and public relations advice, or because they learned something from the way the Duke Lacrosse students and coach were treated or because they know how to do their job as a Board of Trustees. I imagine it was a combination, but I hope it was mainly because they knew how to do their job. Glad they had the brains to not cancel the game or the rest of the season.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-54506005950040027372011-11-12T21:37:55.247-05:002011-11-12T21:37:55.247-05:00If only we could import to Duke the PSU Board of T...If only we could import to Duke the PSU Board of Trustees.<br /><br />Duke ProfAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-15048590565090259062011-11-11T10:01:41.362-05:002011-11-11T10:01:41.362-05:00Gregory and others,
Do you think that recording t...Gregory and others,<br /><br />Do you think that recording testimony before a grand jury is a good idea. Thanks for any input.Chris Halkideshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14933976220776524122noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-9150375543944191852011-11-11T00:45:34.630-05:002011-11-11T00:45:34.630-05:00"Peterson and Burnette lost in their bid for ..."Peterson and Burnette lost in their bid for election." <br /><br />Awesome! That makes it an EPIC RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, POTBANGER FAIL!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-38378548584042061972011-11-10T10:13:21.378-05:002011-11-10T10:13:21.378-05:00Updating your update, last night the PSU Board of ...Updating your update, last night the PSU Board of Trustees fired both coach Paterno and president Graham Spanier, presumably for their failures to exercise adequate oversight and otherwise meet their job-related legal and moral requirements.<br /><br />Not requiring update, however, is that Richard Brodhead remains president at Duke.jim2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-76636602670778540752011-11-09T14:52:04.038-05:002011-11-09T14:52:04.038-05:00Though Peterson and Burnette lost in their bid for...Though Peterson and Burnette lost in their bid for election, it is SAD to see that 6600 votes were cast for her...and shameful to see that 3700 went to Burnette. A homophobic racist bigot and a white-hating, vigilante promoting robber got votes in Durham. Nice.<br /><br />sadly, the little cess pool that is Durham just continues to bubble along.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-40299221072607194562011-11-09T01:35:40.693-05:002011-11-09T01:35:40.693-05:00This is a quote from Professor Johnson's excel...This is a quote from Professor Johnson's excellent post, which, in turn, quotes defendant Durham's brief:<br /><br />"... the Durham brief maintains that 'the only way that the arrays could become misleading at all would be if the prosecutor presented them to the grand jury without ensuring that the members fully understood the inherent limitations of the identification procedure used.' "<br /><br />Wrong! The arrays can be misleading exactly the way Nifong intended for them to be misleading. That is, he desperately needed a juicy soundbyte -- to give the television pundits and newspaper writers who were adoring him the tidbit that Mangum had picked out her assailants from a lineup. Now, here's the perverse aspect of Nifong's actions: He knew or reasonably should have known that every media in the land would flood the airwaves and newsprint with the story that Mangum had picked out her assailants. That's how he contaminated the Grand Jury with his unconstitutional lineup. <br /><br />Oh, sure, he might have played the actual video for the Grand Jury too. He is, after all, a huge sleazebag. MOO! GregoryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-39114522498363009342011-11-08T10:52:11.965-05:002011-11-08T10:52:11.965-05:00It appears that the Jerry Sandusky case can also b...It appears that the Jerry Sandusky case can also be traced back to Centre County DA Ray Gricar choosing not to prosecute back in 1998.<br /><br />This was uncharacteristic of Mr. Gricar--and may also be related to his unexplained disappearance in 2005 (a year in which the last of Sandusky's sexual assaults occurred.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-55261094637011110702011-11-07T20:32:33.768-05:002011-11-07T20:32:33.768-05:00Instead, the city’s attorneys repeatedly term him ...Instead, the city’s attorneys repeatedly term him “State Prosecutor” Nifong, as if his office instead was under the supervision of AG Roy Cooper. <br /><br />Durham's lawyers should have sent their teleprompter to Michael Bell when he corrected Nancy Grace and told her Nifong was "Durham's DA."<br /><br /><br />http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/11/ng.01.html<br /><br />A senior moment?The Hounds of TASSers'villehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03390784090093170549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-29846631359973186232011-11-07T15:47:26.864-05:002011-11-07T15:47:26.864-05:00Thank you so much for continuing to report on the ...Thank you so much for continuing to report on the abuses of the judicial system through your research and reporting. It is one of the few cases in today's world where someone who is not conflicted by allegiances to a constituency is shining a bright light on a continued pattern of abuse, obfuscation and amoral or immoral behavior derived from a nihilistic theoretical underpinning of racism, incompetence and ignorance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-55970604077011532622011-11-07T08:37:13.293-05:002011-11-07T08:37:13.293-05:00Give the media a break. They missed the "Chil...Give the media a break. They missed the "Children Being Raped By Penn State Coaches In The PSU Locker Room" story because they were busy investigating the "Athletes Traded Their Autographs for Tattoos" story.<br /><br />Don't you know they only have so many resources so they need to prioritize...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32542246.post-53893498914730546202011-11-06T21:49:08.506-05:002011-11-06T21:49:08.506-05:00"no redressable claim can be stated, when gov...<i>"no redressable claim can be stated, when government officials intentionally fabricate evidence to frame innocent citizens, even if the evidence is used to indict and arrest those citizens without probable cause."</i><br /><br />IIRC the US govt. argued just this position in another recent case (fortunately,<br />SCOTUS ruled the other way).<br /><br />But I was (and am) astonished at the level of sophistry here--asking the court to rule that framing an innocent citizen is NOT a violation of his constitutional rights?<br /><br />Am I through the looking glass yet?<br /><br />(Footnote: I think each of the Justices needs to do an in-depth study of the lax case to see just how a citizen's rights<br />can be violated under present, day-to-day legal procedures. Rights aren't a matter for ivory tower hair-splitting; they are of real consequence in everyday life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com