Professor Chemerinsky, like the gang of 88, did not have the grounding in facts that Professor Coleman had. To me it was good that Professor Chemerinsky let Professor Coleman’s soft spoken but firm comments have their effect. I was very impressed by Professor Coleman.

Please forgive my repetition. Mike Nifong is not that unique. We really need a discussion of how rape charges should be handled. Using “the woman must be right” as an absolute rule leads to errors such as The Duke Case, and the Mark Chmura Case.

Chmura was vindicated when his accusor blurted out that the bathroom was too small for her story to be true. But in that case there was the accusation of abuse of privilege and a (non-racial) siding up in the community.

I think that he did the right thing.

Would you care to explain that statement?

If we hear that Mexican police are beating suspects with electrical cable, do we need to stop selling electrical cable to Mexico?

Professor Chemerinsky ‘s chose to keep out of the limelight. I think that he did the right thing.

I’m no lefty, I don’t celebrate Marxist college student adventures in hostile territory, and I support Israel’s sovereignty. But it still nags at me that this isn’t how a suit involving South Africa’s policies would go – and the same folks arguing for their liability would be arguing against Israel’s. Harumph.