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Another Mosteller Article

By KC Johnson

In a question-and-answer session last month, I was asked what lessons other states could draw from the lacrosse case. I suggested that the case showed the benefits of open-file discovery (without which Mike Nifong clearly would have concealed all exculpatory evidence) and the need for all states to enact due process-friendly identification procedures. In his second major article on the case (his previous article appeared in Fordham Law Review; this one was published by George Mason Law Review), Duke Law professor Robert Mosteller tackles the first of these issues. He convincingly argues that North Carolina?s open file discovery law made possible the discovery of Nifong?s transgressions, which in turn set up the Bar?s decision to prosecute him...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on February 02, 2008 (boomark / email).