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reflected in the writings of Wigmore and others

a number of highly publicized rape accusations turned out to be false. A nineteen-year-old girl woman from Lincolnshire accused her former boyfriend of raping her after she spent the night with a different man. A jilted nurse falsely accuse...

a woman was required to broadcast an apology to a man she had falsely accused of raping her in order to “get the attention of her husband.”

a college student reported that her former boyfriend raped her at gun point. She admitted that she made up the entire story after learning that the man she accused was 1

the woman recanted saying she had the whole thing up out of spite. In a statement to police

and cases in which innocent people have been falsely accused of rape. I teach that when it comes to the serious crime of rape

by demonstrating their misuse of the serious moral crime of real sexual harassment. I have represented women who have experienced real sexual harassment—including a graduate student who was explicitly told by her faculty advisor that the qu...

I refused to be bullied into abandoning a teaching style that I believe is best designed to stimulate thinking. It takes no courage for me to exercise my academic freedom

I teach the law of rape as an example of a cutting-edge subject that poses a sharp conflict between the rights of defendants and their accusers. As usual

but it may well have fallen into the category of gray area. He believed that she wanted to sleep with him. She may have been ambivalent or sending mixed signals (though I doubt it). It was a close case and Tyson was entitled to have his def...

who should understand that our adversary system of justice requires that all convicted defendants be accorded a zealous appeal.

you attach the Jewish community to your action…I now find it hard to understand how you can mount a passionate defense for a convicted rapist.

life begins at the moment of conception and is as sacred then as it is at the moment before birth. To an absolute pro-choicer

like abortion. Extremists on both sides of such issue tend to see things in black and white terms.

I have never encountered a more thoroughly corrupt legal system than I did in 1992 in Indiana and a less fair trial and appeal than those accorded Mike Tyson. If hard cases make bad law

he would have quickly been acquitted. But this was Indiana. They had a trophy in Tyson. And they had a trial judge determined to prevent a new trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed on....

but Tyson’s attorneys might have successfully pinpointed the crucial issues that will free him.”

and that the call might have been part of the scheme.

or “reasonable belief” concerning whether Tyson believed Washington wanted to have sex with him.

omissions and elementary errors by the fighter’s ex-defense team