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"A masterful examination of the pathetic rush to judgment in the Duke rape case." ―John Grisham
The full story of the Duke Lacrosse case, by the authors who broke it
In this American tragedy, Stuart Taylor, Jr., and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly tarnishing their lives.
Until Proven Innocent is the only book that covers all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media) in a comprehensive fashion. It is also the only book to include interviews with all three of the defendants, their families, and their legal teams. And now it includes an up-to-date epilogue detailing the aftershocks and conclusion of the case.
Taylor and Johnson's coverage of the Duke case was the earliest, most honest, and most comprehensive in the country, and here they take on the idiocies and dishonesty of right- and left-wingers alike, shedding new light on the danger of a cultural tendency toward media-fueled travesties of justice. The context of the Duke case has vast import, and in its full telling, it is captivating nonfiction with broad political, racial, and cultural relevance to our times.
"Taylor and Johnson have made a gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused." ―The New York Times Book Review
"Until Proven Innocent is a stunning book." ―The Wall Street Journal
"Vivid, at times chilling . . . their most biting scorn is aimed at the ‘academic McCarthyism' that they say has infected top-rate American universities like Duke." ―Newsweek
"A superb new book . . . a book that not only reads like a legal thriller, but also exposes deep problems with America's legal system and academic culture." ―The Economist
- Sales Rank: #64275 in Books
- Published on: 2008-09-30
- Released on: 2008-09-30
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.21" h x 1.04" w x 6.14" l, 1.22 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 464 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Guilty until proven innocent was a concept expressed by Duke University's president Richard Brodhead, among others, betraying a stunning misapprehension of America's justice system in the case of the Duke lacrosse players wrongfully indicted for raping a black stripper in 2006. As well reported in detail by respected legal journalist Taylor and Brooklyn College historian Johnson, the facts of the case speak for themselves: rogue prosecutor Mike Nifong willfully disregarded evidence of the boys' innocence; Duke administrators hung the team members out to dry; much of Duke's faculty and the media rushed to assume guilt in the racially charged case (the New York Times comes in for special opprobrium). But these facts are embedded in repetitiously hammering home the basic points, sarcasm and ranting against the political correctness (i.e., obsession with the race-class-gender triad) of academia and the media. The authors challenge the academic credentials of the black faculty members who attacked the team and criticize the Times's Selena Roberts for choosing to live in lily white Westport, Conn. In total contrast, the closing chapters offer balanced, tautly argued discussions of, and remedies for, the central problems: prosecutorial abuse, the frequency of false rape accusations and academic groupthink. 8 pages of color photos. (Oct. 1)
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Review
“Until Proven Innocent is the most compelling true crime book of the year. Its immersion into the case and access to the major players makes the reader feel like an insider. The book is crammed full of salacious details, scientific details, background details, etc., but it never feels overwhelming. After reading the book, though, you will feel disgusted, if not outraged.” ―Amanda Barrett, The Chicago Sun-Times
“In their vivid, at times chilling account, the authors are contemptuous of prosecutor Mike Nifong, whom the North Carolina legal establishment disbarred for his by now well-documented misconduct. But their most biting scorn is aimed at the 'academic McCarthyism' that they say has infected top-rated American universities like Duke.” ―Evan Thomas, Newsweek
“From the Scottsboro Boys to Clarence Gideon, some of the most memorable legal narratives have been tales of the wrongly accused. Now Until Proven Innocent, a new book about the false allegations of rape against three Duke lacrosse players, can join these galvanizing cautionary tales. Taylor and Johnson have made a gripping contribution to the literature of the wrongly accused. They remind us of the importance of constitutional checks on prosecutorial abuse. And they emphasize the lesson that Duke callously advised its own students to ignore: if you're unjustly suspected of any crime, immediately call the best lawyer you can afford.” ―Jeffrey Rosen, The New York Times Book Review
“Brutally honest, unflinching, exhaustively researched, and compulsively readable, Until Proven Innocent excoriates those who led the stampede--the prosecutor, the cops, the media--but it also exposes the cowardice of Duke's administration and faculty. Until Proven Innocent smothers any lingering doubts that in this country the presumption of innocence is dead, dead, dead.” ―John Grisham
“This compelling narrative dramatizes the fearsome power of unscrupulous police and prosecutors to wreck the lives of innocent people, especially when the media and many in the community rush to presume guilt. The inspiring story of how the defense lawyers turned the tables on a dishonest DA points to the crying need for reforms to give defendants of modest means a fighting chance when law enforcement goes bad.” ―Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at the New York Law School
“In what surely is this year's most revealing, scalding and disturbing book on America's civic culture, the authors demonstrate that the Duke case was symptomatic of the dangerous decay of important institutions--legal, academic, and journalistic. . . . With this meticulous report, the guilty have at last been indicted and convicted.” ―George F. Will
“A gripping, meticulous, blow-by-blow account of the whole grotesque affair. It is beautifully written, dramatic, and full of insights, exposing how vulnerable the prosecutorial system is to abuse and how ready the liberal media and PC academics are to serve as leaders of the lynch mob. A must read for anyone who cares about individual rights and justice.” ―William P. Barr, former attorney general of the United States
“A chilling, gripping account of how our judicial system can go terribly wrong. This is an important book that brings the Duke story to life and exposes troubling facts about our justice system and our citadels of higher learning. You may think you know the Duke story--but you don't until you read this book.” ―Jan Crawford Greenberg, ABC News legal correspondent and author of Supreme Conflict
“The analysis of the notorious Duke rape case in this book is hard to accept. According to Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, this episode was not just a terrible injustice to three young men. It exposed a fever of political correctness that is more virulent than ever on American campuses and throughout society. . . . Unfortunately for doubts, the authors lay out the facts with scrupulous care. This is a thorough and absorbing history of a shameful episode. ” ―Michael Kinsley, columnist for Time magazine
From the Inside Flap
“A masterful examination of the pathetic rush to judgment in the Duke rape case.”
—John Grisham
What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina.
And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members‘ alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them.
In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats were made of these young men, recklessly tarnishing their lives.
The story harbors multiple dramas, including the actions of a DA running for office; the inappropriate charges that should have been apparent to academics at Duke many months ago; the local and national media, who were so slow to take account of the publicly available evidence; and the appalling reactions of law enforcement, academia, and many black leaders.
Until Proven Innocent is the only book that covers all five aspects of the case (personal, legal, academic, political, and media) in a comprehensive fashion. Based on interviews with key members of the defense team, many of the unindicted lacrosse players, and Duke officials, it is also the only book to include interviews with all three of the defendants, their families, and their legal teams.
Taylor and Johnson‘s coverage of the Duke case was the earliest, most honest, and most comprehensive in the country, and here they take the idiocies and dishonesty of right- and left-wingers alike head on, shedding new light on the dangers of rogue prosecutors and police and a cultural tendency toward media-fueled travesties of justice. The context of the Duke case has vast import and contains likable heroes, unfortunate victims, and memorable villains—and in its full telling, it is captivating nonfiction with broad political, racial, and cultural relevance to our times. Praise for Until Proven Innocent
“Brutally honest, unflinching, exhaustively researched, and compulsively readable, Until Proven Innocent excoriates those who led the stampede—the prosecutor, the cops, the media—but it also exposes the cowardice of Duke’s administration and faculty. Until Proven Innocent smothers any lingering doubts that in this country the presumption of innocence is dead, dead, dead.”
—John Grisham
“This compelling narrative dramatizes the fearsome power of unscrupulous police and prosecutors to wreck the lives of innocent people, especially when the media and many in the community rush to presume guilt. The inspiring story of how the defense lawyers turned the tables on a dishonest DA points to the crying need for reforms to give defendants of modest means a fighting chance when law enforcement goes bad.”
—Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at the New York Law School
“In what surely is this year’s most revealing, scalding and disturbing book on America’s civic culture, the authors demonstrate that the Duke case was symptomatic of the dangerous decay of important institutions—legal, academic, and journalistic.... With this meticulous report, the guilty have at last been indicted and convicted.”
—George F. Will
“A gripping, meticulous, blow-by-blow account of the whole grotesque affair. It is beautifully written, dramatic, and full of insights, exposing how vulnerable the prosecutorial system is to abuse and how ready the liberal media and PC academics are to serve as leaders of the lynch mob. A must read for anyone who cares about individual rights and justice.”
—William P. Barr, former attorney general of the United States
“A chilling, gripping account of how our judicial system can go terribly wrong. This is an important book that brings the Duke story to life and exposes troubling facts about our justice system and our citadels of higher learning. You may think you know the Duke story—but you don’t until you read this book.”
—Jan Crawford Greenberg, ABC News legal correspondent and author of Supreme Conflict
“The analysis of the notorious Duke rape case in this book is hard to accept. According to Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson, this episode was not just a terrible injustice to three young men. It exposed a fever of political correctness that is more virulent than ever on American campuses and throughout society.... Unfortunately for doubts, the authors lay out the facts with scrupulous care. This is a thorough and absorbing history of a shameful episode. ”—Michael Kinsley, columnist for Time magazine
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69 of 73 people found the following review helpful.
Richard Brodhead's Moral Meltdown
By Hershel Parker
UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT: POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE SHAMEFUL INJUSTICES OF THE DUKE LACROSSE RAPE CASE. UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT is more terrifying than any thriller you will read this year. Stuart Taylor, Jr., and KC Johnson trace what happened when three young men were falsely accused of rape. Rather than being defended by Duke University, they were defamed, threatened with castration, thrown to the rogue prosecutor. Many Duke professors as the "Group of 88" egged on the mob who had begun to harass the lacrosse players. There were almost no heroes at Duke, although a very few professors ultimately spoke out against the rush to judgment which proved to be a rush to the wrong judgment. The women's lacrosse coach Kerstin Kimel is depicted here as the kind of person you wish you had been when you look back at a crisis you lived through. Her decency and bravery shine in this dark book. KC Johnson is another kind of hero: the American professor who sensed that something wrong was going on at Duke and set out to document the events in a blog that ultimately helped turn the tide against the Duke mob. One of the most terrifying sections of this book shows that rather than being punished after the truth was undeniable these professors in the Group of 88 were rewarded with greater control of Duke committees. One of the most exciting sections shows how bloggers became heroes when the national media, including Nancy Grace and the New York Times, had joined the mob. This section gives hope that other national lies will be exposed promptly and exposed repeatedly until the country pays attention. The times have changed for the better in this regard even if the Times has not.
Knowing that Brodhead, the master of sly innuendo, as a literary critic habitually ignored the facts and rushed to judgment, whatever the cost to his victim's reputation (see Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 62 [June 2007] pp. 29-47), I recognized the weakling Taylor and Johnson portray in "Richard Brodhead's Test of Courage": "Confronted with a crisis of epic proportions, with Duke's hard-won reputation at risk, he faced his ultimate test of courage. And in an extraordinary moral meltdown, he threw in his lot with the mob." The only criticism I have of this book is that the publishers should have put "Rape" in quotation marks, since no rape occurred.
44 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
A Perfect Storm
By Jack L. Rutner
Stuart Taylor and KC Johnson have written a superb book about a perfect storm that was the Duke-Lacrosse case. Were it not so hideously real, it would read like a work of fiction. Taylor and Johnson portray how a bi-polar black, woman who deserved to be institutionalized but did not want to be, told a fib that grew into a monstrous lie (actually many lies). They describe how A SANE nurse could be perfectly insane by believing that any woman making a claim of rape had to have been raped, regardless of all evidence to the contrary. They describe how three white boys who were good athletes, good students, good people and from well to-do families, could be portrayed as being evil people who had taken advantage of a poor black woman just trying to raise her children while going to NCCU, and oh yes, stripping and whoring on the side. They describe how the black population of Durham had, for the most part, been gulled by their leaders into thinking that every black is a victim and every white an aggressor and a villain -- a sort of reverse KKK mentality. They descibe a DA who had lost his moral compass and who, for a mess pottage, pandered to the black community of Durham to be elected; and they show how he suborned perjury, not once but at least three times (although Taylor and Johnson never use that term); and they show how he avoided any evidence that would not fit his preconceived notion of the truth. They describe how policemen because of their hatred of Duke student aided and abetted the DA in his attempt to frame three innocent people. They also describe a couple of questionable judges who never met a DA they doubted, with the consequence that three innocent people had their lives turned upside down for no reason. They describe Duke University as having 88 faculty members who pretend to be scholars, but whose scholarship, for the most part, does not rise above the jejeune, and they describe how those "scholars" threw gasoline on a smoldering fire, with 87 of them, even today, not being able to figure out what it was they did wrong. They describe how Duke, by selecting those pretend scholars to be on its faculty, chose diversity over merit thereby getting diversity at the cost of scholarship. They describe how Duke's administration was absolutely supine in the face of those faculty memebers, and how its President, the inaptly named Brodhead, provided the leadership of a spineless jellyfish. They describe how Brodhead never wanting to be confused by the evidence in the case ran from being informed about it. They describe how the main stream media reported half-truths and untruths which has become its modus operandi. (You can bet, if it's in the MSM it's not true and if it's true, it's not in the MSM.) They describe in particular how the New York Times provided biased reporting under Duff Wilson's by-line. (It appears that the MSM were as uncritical as the jejeune scholars at Duke, and that they too threw gasoline on a fire that was raging all across the country.) All of that led to a perfect storm that was the Duke-Lacrosse case.
Of course, they also describe what ultimately contained that perfect storm. It was three families who believed their sons; it was a group of excellent defense lawyers; it was an honest judge; and it was a group of internet bloggers who would not give up in exposing the untruths of this case.
The Taylor-Johnson book has exposed something else. It is how a large segment of America has become unthinking over the past forty or so years. For that segment, if it's black-woman-poor-transgender it must be good, if it's white-male-well to do-heterosexual, it must be bad. Another thing the book has exposed is how useful the internet and its blogs have become in exposing the mendacity of some our leading institutions -- in particular,the MSM, the so-called ministers of justice, and finally the scholarship amongst certain components of the university faculties that is not scholarship. I highly recommend Until Proven Innocent as an eye-opener to those unfamiliar with the details surrounding this Duke-Lacrosse case.
38 of 40 people found the following review helpful.
Well Written And A Real Page Turner
By Red
I must disagree with reviewer who called the writing "sloppy" and said everyone already knows what was covered in the book. I watched TV coverage and read about the case, but every page of this book brought a new "I can't believe this could happen!" shock to me. As a professional writer, I think it's well written. Every page is stuffed full of facts, yet it's an easy, riveting read, as easy as a novel. It's a real page turner; I couldn't put it down.
Although I doubt there are many prosecutors like Mike Nifong, I know there are many campuses like Duke, steeped in political correctness, where certain categories of professors spoon feed our kids subversive information, tearing down the American way of life that so many of us still cherish. This book reveals how many in academia and most of the media teach and report only what they want us to know, with truth and facts that contradict their agenda considered unimportant. In fact, a number of professors are quoted in the book as saying exactly that.
You can't afford to miss this book. I'll never be the same after reading it. It's an important part of your knowledge of the criminal justice system, your self-protection and of an important event in American history. This is surely as important as the famous "Scottboro boys" case, even thought the racism in this case was against whites, not blacks.
If you ever find yourself in a situation like this, being accused but not charged, you'll know how to handle it if you read this book. And you'll know that if you are ever arrested, no matter how ridiculous the charges, your first words will be "I want a lawyer."
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