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A Rush to Injustice. How Power, Prejudice, Racism, and Political Correctness Overshadowed Truth and...

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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Year
2011
ISBN
9781418584313
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
627 kB (642321 bytes)
Pages
211\0
Time added
2015-05-04 05:31:09

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The party was planned . . . college friends, booze, even a couple of strippers. But, the revelry the boys were anticipating never happened. Instead of the good time they had hoped for, several members of the Duke University lacrosse team were charged with assault and rape. Amazingly, when the district attorney stepped up to the bank of microphones on a world stage and made his pronouncement, it soulded like an easy verdict. Few suspected that this blockbuster of a news story was based on lies and furthered by private political ambitions.Seasoned trial lawyer Nader Baydoun, a Duke alumnus, paid close attention to the lacrosse case from the moment it broke. And it wasn't long before he suspected that something was wrong. Baydoun started digging. here's what he and his collaborator, New York Times best-selling author and attorney R. Stephanie Good, found: From the very start, the supposed victim, Crystal Gale Mangum, and her partner, gave highly inconsistent...

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