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Advance 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, ACLU president and professor of law at New York
University 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 U.S. attorney general
“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 |