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Attorney McSurely

By K.C. Johnson

In the lacrosse case "hall of infamy," few figures are more worthy of inclusion than state NAACP attorney Al McSurely. This is, after all, the man who authored the August 2006 guilt-presuming, error-laden 82-point "memorandum of law," [scroll down] which stood as the NAACP's legal "analysis" of the case.Among its whoppers: ?The only Black [lacrosse] player, a freshman, left the party before the dancers arrived.? [This statement was untrue; even Nifong had never made such a claim.]?The lacrosse team member asked the women to dance and simulate sex acts between them, similarly to scenes from a book and movie that several of the Lacrosse team members enjoyed reading and talking about?American Psycho.? [No evidence for either part of this assertion existed; even Kim Roberts never made such a claim...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 08, 2008 (boomark / email).