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Blog and Media Roundup - Wednesday, November 10, 2010; News Roundup
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Quasimodo

http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/11/josh_powell_may_look_suspiciou.php

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Nov. 9, 2010

"Everyone is so quick to rush to judgement. Last time I checked they don't have sh_t on this guy.

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"I am not naieve to the fact that his actions aren't one of a saint, and the whole rental car deal is a bit out there, but he hasn't been charged with ANYTHING! I have three words for everyone... DUKE LACROSSE TEAM."
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Quasimodo

http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/8591715/

Fayetteville man charged with sex crimes


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remember Duke LaCrosse, don't rush to judgement until all the facts are out.
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Quasimodo

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2010/11/10/sawhney-newton-innocent-until-proven-guilty/

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Sawhney: Newton innocent until proven guilty

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Wednesday, November 10th, 2010 More broadly, the sports media has rushed to judgment in the past and gotten memorably burned; just ask the slew of columnists who blasted the Duke lacrosse team, shoving aside concerns about silly things like “what actually happened,” “the reliability of the accuser” and “police misconduct.” The allegations of rape turned out to be false, and CBS’s “60 Minutes” conducted an extremely thorough, six-month review of the case, basically showing sports journalists how real journalism is done.
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Quasimodo

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http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/11/testing_diversity_by_nixing_race

Testing diversity by nixing race
By SAM PERKINS

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It’s tough to concretely say where we are on race relations. But something is wrong when the NAACP says it serves all races, yet it, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson use skin color as a litmus test for whether to rush to cases like those of Crystal Mangum — accuser in the Duke lacrosse case — and, as Jackson’s Rainbow/PUSH Coalition did, offer full tuition regardless of whether the accusations were false.

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http://areadersdigest.blogspot.com/2010/11/cultures-of-letters-scenes-of-reading.html

Monday, November 8, 2010

Cultures of Letters: Scenes of Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century America by Richard H. Brodhead


I found this book to be disappointing: Brodhead's argument, writ large, is that to understand nineteenth century American writing, we need to understand the conditions surrounding the writers. This idea sounds right to me, but somehow the connection between the theory and the readings just doesn't work for me. Which is not to say that the readings are bad, exactly, just that in the grand scheme of things, it doesn't all hang together for me.
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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2010/11/opening_arguments_begin_in_tri.html

Opening arguments begin in trial of officers accused of shooting, burning Henry Glover
Published: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 10:56 AM Updated: Wednesday, November 10, 2010, 11:03 AM

Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune Laura Maggi, The Times-Picayune

After two days of jury selection, attorneys have begun their opening arguments in the federal trial against five current and former New Orleans police officers in the 2005 death of Henry Glover.

Defendent NOPD officer Robert Italiano,Jr. enters the Hale Boggs Federal Building in New Orleans on Monday, November 8, 2010 for the start of jury selection in the federal trial of the New Orleans Police Officers charged in connection with the killing of Henry Glover and subsequent burning of his body in the days after Hurricane Katrina. Henry Glover trial underway gallery (7 photos)

In a 70-minute speech in , assistant U.S. Attorney Tracey Knight told the jury the former New Orleans police officer David Warren shot an innocent civilian on Sept. 2, 2005, then two other police officers began a concerted effort to cover up that fact by burning the man's body in a car on the Algiers levee.

The coverup later extended to the writing of false reports by two other police officers, Knight said.

Warren is charged with violating the 31-year-old Glover's civil rights by shooting him. Two other police officers, Lt. Dwayne Scheuermann and officer Greg McRae, are charged with beating men who tried to help the injured Glover and, eventually, burning Glover's corpse in a car. Two police supervisors, former Lt. Robert Italiano and Lt. Travis McCabe, are accused of writing a false police report about the shooting.

While the five defendants are not accused of a conspiracy in this case, Knight described more coordination between the officers than has been previously disclosed.

Specifically, Knight said that Italiano knew that Glover's body had been torched by officers in a car.

Knight said several police officer witnesses will tesify in the trial, including Linda Howard, who was Warren's partner on the day of the shooting.

Howard will testify that she and Warren were behind a locked gate when Glover approached the building they were guarding. She will also say that Warren fired his assault rifle as Glover was running away, Knight said.

Knight also told jurors they will hear from Officer Purnella Simmons, who went to the scene of the shooting that day. Knight says that Simmons tried to tell Italiano, who was her supervisor, that she believed Warren had shot someone, but that Italiano dismissed her.

The defense also began the first of what will be five opening statements. Attorney Julian Murray, who represents Warren, told the jury that the government's "reconstruction" of what happened is inaccurate.

He said Warren and Howard were not behind locked gates, and that Glover was shot in the chest as he was running toward the building that Warren was guarding, not the back.

Murray also said defense attorneys intend to point out the inconsistencies in key government witness statements, including that of Howard.

"He is not a killer," Murray said of his client.
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