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The Chances of Holding Your Son Responsible for a Rape He Didn’t Commit Have Just Skyrocketed

While it is a terrible thing for a young woman to see her rapist escape without punishment, it is an even more terrible thing to hold a young man responsible for a rape he didn’t commit. The chances of the school making a mistake and doing exactly that — holding a young man responsible for a rape he didn’t commit — have just skyrocketed with the Education Department’s April 4 directive.

The Movement to Disbar Mary N. Kellett

Mary Kellett’s professional conduct in this case breeches virtually all canons of legal ethics where it concerns prosecutors, from intentionally misleading jurors to avoiding pretrial discovery to actually asking a law enforcement officer to refuse to comply with a valid subpoena in order to help her conceal exculpatory evidence.

Tomorrow: The Beginning of the End for Mary Kellett’s Witch Hunt

Over the course of the past few days I have been made privy to a very large collection of information related to the Vladek Filler case and prosecutor Mary Kellett.  This information includes many court documents, rulings, a lengthy legal complaint against Kellett and even email communications relevant to the case. That being said, let …

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Abuse Hysteria in Maine: The Ghost of Michael Nifong

During the early hours of March 14, 2006, a group of Duke University lacrosse players allegedly raped and sodomized a Black woman. Over the next 13 months, the sleepy town of Durham, North Carolina became witness to a succession of prosecutorial accusations, full-throated media warnings, and castration marches. On April 12, 2007, the state Attorney …

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Female Spits Ice at Punk Rocker; Gets Punched

The headline at Feministing reads “Punk band Screeching Weasel breaks up after frontman punches two women at SXSW”.  A fight broke out after an audience member (who happened to be female) reportedly spit ice at the band’s frontman Ben Weasel while he was on stage because of his misogynist stage rantings.  Mike Conklin at The L Magazine …

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