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Cooper Response to Duke

By K.C. Johnson

The unindicted players represented by Chuck Cooper have filed a powerful response to Duke?s motion to dismiss. Summarized below, it addresses not only the legal arguments offered by Jamie Gorelick and Dan McLamb, but also the (scarcely credible) p.r. spin that the Duke attorneys chose to include in their legal filing. The motion concludes, ?Throughout the crisis, Richard Brodhead . . . and other Duke officials consistently sacrificed the rights and interests of the accused Duke students in an effort to avoid embarrassment to Duke and to minimize criticism of its administration. Mangum?s explosive allegations had created an angry mob led primarily by activist Duke faculty members, student protestors, and a hostile media, and the mob immediately rushed to condemn the lacrosse players, to intimidate and denounce the team?s defenders, and to demand the team?s swift and severe punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 29, 2008 (boomark / email).