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because the courtroom doors were shut to new scientific evidence that could prove both innocence and guilt.

political and academic feminism began to focus attention on the gender inequalities implicit

both tactical and legal. The legal expert who reported on the trial for USA Today described the trial as “filled with mistakes

we must go back to the trial itself and see how Desiree Washington

because she did not want any publicity. She said she had no plans to sue Tyson and she had certainly not hired a lawyer for that purpose. When she and her family were asked whether they had a ""contingency"" fee agreement with any lawyer -- the kind of agreement traditionally mad...

and the prosecutor told the jury that she expected to go home after her date with Tyson ""the same girl"" that she was before her date

she acknowledged that she led him on and that she acted like a groupie would behave. The director of the Miss Black America Pageant

she lied to her father and told him she had been raped

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

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

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

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

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

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 quality of her recommendation would depen...

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