District attorney for Durham County, North Carolina
What do the Duke lacrosse players, former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, General Michael Flynn, and the Aetna insurance company have in common? Evidence that was damaging to the government’s case…
According to Fox news: George Washington University law professor John Banzhaf has filed complaints against Marilyn Mosby with the Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland. He alleges Mosby and two deputies…
Scott Greer of the Daily Caller argues that mainstream media outlets have learned no lessons from the fiasco of the Duke lacrosse case 10 years ago. Every outlet under the…
Ten years have passed since the false rape accusations that created turmoil for the Duke University men’s lacrosse team and the Duke campus in general. KC Johnson revisits the case…
An article in the latest print edition of National Review titled “The Paranoid Style in American Parenting” features the following quip: The CPS [Child Protective Services] worker “generally undertook the…
Writing in the latest issue of Commentary magazine, Brooklyn College history professor KC Johnson explains why a new book on the infamous Duke lacrosse case fails miserably, especially because of…
Earlier this year a judge ordered then-Durham DA Tracey Cline from office in the wake of false allegations against Judge Orlando Hudson. The whole mess cast more doubt on the…
I’m talking about the infamous case of Bernard Von NotHaus, the North Carolinian who has been convicted of counterfeiting even though he clearly did no such thing in the course…
The Independent Institute’s Anthony Gregory has a sharp piece on that case here.
Mike Nifong was a scoundrel who continued the rape prosecution of three Duke students for political advantage, even after it was clear that the story told by their accuser was…
The ramifications of the outrageous Duke lacrosse case continue to mount. The latest is a ruling from a federal judge that allows 38 unindicted players, and the three falsely accused…
Radley Balko writes here about a really disturbing case of prosecutorial abuse — a vendetta carried out by a US attorney against pain relief advocate Siobhan Reynolds. If we had…