[twigs]

It's an excellent article. She has this exactly right. When Estrich isn't being crazily partisan, she has a fine, legal mind. And she has come a long way on this case. Nifong will have a problem in the legal community after the dust has settled.

[paddles]

I disagree. Here's why:

"Conservatives will be outraged that three boys' lives were ruined because an ambitious prosecutor believed a lying "slut" (as in the nuts and sluts defense), which will be played to a fare-thee-well."

Conservatives (as well as anybody else) should be outraged because of prosecutorial misconduct. Estrich is backhanding conservatives as people who are quick to mischaracterize alleged rape victims as sluts.

[UglyinLA]

twigs wrote, "When Estrich isn't being crazily partisan..."


She will always be a partisan hack. This case has been questionable from the beginning. It doesn't take a fine, legal mind to figure it out, it just takes common sense. Maybe that explains why it took Estrich so long to see the light.

[Nonstatist]

If they're all acquitted, there will be outrage in the black community that three white boys got away with rape.

I doubt there are a dozen people in the world who really believe that anymore. What tripe..