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Cooper Response: Duke's SANE Brief

By K.C. Johnson

The unindicted players? lawsuit against Duke focuses on two areas: (1) the actions of the administration; (2) the performance of Duke Hospital, especially former SANE nurse-in-training/feminist zealot Tara Levicy. Duke attorneys Jamie Gorelick and Dan McLamb have thus far struggled to develop a consistent legal justification for Levicy?s actions?which, in all fairness, is not easy to do. First, they challenged the Attorney General?s report by asserting that Levicy had not misled investigators when she said that the medical exam could corroborate a rape claim. The Duke duo even dipped into the ?something happened? mantra by joining Mike Nifong and Victoria Peterson in deeming Crystal Mangum a ?victim.? In a subsequent filing, they reversed themselves, implied that Levicy might have given false information, but maintained that Duke wasn?t legally liable for her actions, since Levicy never could have known that her giving false information could cause the players harm...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 30, 2008 (boomark / email).