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To: maggief
Durham has a $5 million liability policy

That ain't gonna cut it.

2 posted on 08/27/2007 2:38:10 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Tijeras_Slim
It’s going to get interesting. My guess is Seligmann, represented by Scheck will want it to go to trial.

http://media.www.browndailyherald.com/medi...n-2923688.shtml

Seligmann was an honors student at Duke, a history major who made the Atlantic Coast Conference honor roll in his two years at the university, even though he had to complete his final semester at Duke from home, over the Internet.

He plans to study history at Brown and is considering adding economics as a second concentration. His internship at Bear Stearns has gotten him more interested in business, he says, but his heart, especially after the past year, is in law.

Seligmann knows some resent the three accused players for having the resources to battle the legal system. He is unapologetic about it, but after the Duke case, he realizes more than ever how economics plays a role in law.

Seligmann says he and the two accused teammates plan to one day work with the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating prisoners through DNA testing, or something similar.

His goal, he says, is to work toward making sure that something like the Duke case never happens again, that innocent people never have to go through what he went through, regardless of their financial situation.

At Brown, he promises to start a club related to the Innocence Project, and to devote much of his time to its cause.

When asked if he’s comfortable making a promise, with the Brown community and much of the nation watching, Seligmann doesn’t hesitate to respond.

“They’ll be watching me anyway,” he says.

Project Innocence:

http://www.innocenceproject.org/about/

The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal clinic affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University and created by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld in 1992. The project is a national litigation and public policy organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people through DNA testing and reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice. As a clinic, law students handle case work while supervised by a team of attorneys and clinic staff.

19 posted on 08/27/2007 3:14:31 PM PDT by maggief
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