Durham-in-Wonderland

Posting will be light until there are new developments in the civil case; or if there is significant movement on one or two other case-relat...

Apart from the obvious—that in both the specifics of the alleged crime and the (to date, non-existent) conduct of the prosecutor the Sacred ...

Last week featured the latest Craven filing from the Mike Nifong camp. Nifong attorney Jim Craven filed a four-page brief (which included a...

The media generally does not withhold information as a matter of official policy. But, to my knowledge, every major newspaper in the country...

Few journalists performed as poorly in the lacrosse case as Samiha Khanna. Virtually every statement in her N&O interview with false ac...

I recently received an email from DIW reader and commenter ES Class of 1990. He reports: I got a fundraising call from a Duke Freshman this ...

In 1978, in Iowa’s Pottawattamie County, a retired police officer working as a security guard was murdered. Police and prosecutorial attenti...

An excellent essay by Peter Berkowitz on the topic. Here's his perceptive summary of the Duke case: In 2006, even as the police had bare...

While Wahneema Lubiano—she who wrote, without any citation, that “many whites . . . might not ever be persuaded by appeals to reason, to wha...

At most large universities, the position of undergraduate deputy serves as the department's ambassador to the undergraduate student popu...

If I were looking for the identity of someone least likely to be named trustee for a major hospital, former Duke BOT chairman Bob Steel woul...

Writing at cbsnews.com, legal analyst Andrew Cohen expressed concern about the legal impact of the massive publicity in the Yale murder ca...

The name “Crystal Mangum” only appeared on the news pages of the New York Times after Mangum published her “memoir.” Carrying its policy of...

Two issues in the news over the past week have brought to mind lessons of the lacrosse case. The first, of course, came at Hofstra, where ...

Doubtless Wendy Murphy will be appearing on some news program to demand that the "secret" evidence from this case be released as w...

As I noted in my previous posts, Duke women’s center director Ada Gregory, in her damage-control letter to the Chronicle , cited the work ...

Duke Women’s Center director Ada Gregory came under justifiable criticism for her preposterous recent assertion to the Chronicle: “The highe...

I’ll have a more substantive post up Wednesday; for today, however, a few loose ends: [Update, 12.29pm Tuesday: An excellent post , using ...

Three Duke University students were the victims of the highest-profile fraudulent rape claim in modern American history. That fact alone sho...