Posted on 03/29/2014 3:10:03 AM PDT by abb
ping
i hope the publisher loses millions.
According to our research, author William Cohan was a heretofore reputable writer. By hanging his hat on an interview with the Fong, he’s destroyed himself.
I can’t make sense out of this article
who is the book’s author, Nifong or Cohen
in the same sentence it says Nifong did and didn’t withhold evidence
if I have to read it more than a couple times to understand it, it is bull
http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2014/03/coman-to-neff-nifong-characterizations.html
Friday, March 28, 2014
Coman to Neff: Nifong Characterizations “Figments of His Imagination”
Joe Neff has a breaking piece in the N&O disproving one of the many questionable assertions in the forthcoming book by author William D. Cohan. (I’m reviewing the book for Commentary, and will also comment here after the book is published.)
Neff observes that “most of the new content in the book comes from Cohan’s interviews with Nifong . . . Cohan allows the former prosecutor’s assertions to go unchallenged.” Neff’s article illustrates the dangers of an author relying on the uncorrobated musings of a convicted liar.
According to Neff, Nifong told Cohan that “I have to believe, based on my knowledge of Jim Coman and Mary Winstead, that they were every bit as sandbagged by [AG Roy Cooper declaring the players innocent] as I was.” Author Cohan, for reasons that remain unclear, elected to publish without attempting to contact either Coman or Winstead for comment. I should note that it appears that many key players on the legal side of the case were similarly never contacted, for reasons that remain unclear.
It turns out—unsurprisingly—that Nifong’s . . . recollection . . . was flawed. Jim Coman told Neff, “These characterizations are figments of his imagination.” After reviewing all of the evidence (it’s not clear, by contrast, how much evidence author Cohan ever saw), Coman concluded the obvious: “[Crystal Mangum] lied, she made up a story, and damn it, we’ve got to do the right and ethical thing” by issuing an innocence declaration.
[Update, for those interested: it might be worth reviewing the AG’s report.]
Posted by KC Johnson at 6:06 PM
Hard-copy, within North Carolina...I’d expect about 1,500 copies to sell. Across the nation, around 3,000 libraries will buy a copy, and maybe another 500 copies get bought by people with an interest in the case.
E-book copies (at $3.99 maybe), there might be another 2,000 copies sold.
Nifong might clear $10,000 by the end of the first year of sales. Nifong is in denial over his involvement, and this is the only way to get his message across and regain some standing in the community. Zero chance of him getting ever involved in politics...so he’s aiming at some foundation picking him up and helping him. On the measurement of a man’s character....this guy lacks common sense to a great degree.
The Fong is mentally unbalanced.
Nifong is part of the 99% of lawyers who give the other 1% a bad name.
Words fail me.
I hope the book sells less than 10 copies!
It’s a mixed bag, really. One the one hand, no one wants this scumbag liar to make a buck. On the other, when he filed for bankruptcy in 2008 he listed his assets (<$300K) and liabilities as greater than $180 million. The $180 million was for six $30 million damage claims by the Duke lacrosse players.
Based on his acknowledgement of the liabilities, I’d say the players could mount a supplementary claim and take everything he makes from the book.
Just my non-lawyer opinion.
Oh, it will sell well the the “They were guilty” circle.
They’ll say “See, they were guilty. It’s in the book.”
This remains for me the quintessential example of progressives’ opportunistic political correctness. The statements by Cooper’s lead investigator totally destroys the author’s thesis. What led the author to a denial of the obvious? Since this was never likely to be a money-making book, what led the publisher to support it?
I hope somebody digs into this cesspit a little more.
Doesn’t the Son of Sam law prevent this kind of thing? I hope the Lacrosse guys sue Nifong for every single penny in his wretched existence. I want to see him begging for food.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Albert Einstein
Found this in a comment about the aforementioned Joe Neff article ... seems to be spot on:
Twenty years ago, an NPR Saturday morning talk show host interviewed a noted mathematician. After a little discussion, they opened the phones to callers. One caller, with great eagerness, began to describe his fascination with how various fractions came closer and closer to pi. He hypothesized that with a little more effort, someone would stumble across just the right fraction. At that point, the mathematician patiently explained to the caller that pi has been proven to be irrational, and therefore, by definition could not be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers. The caller thought about the explanation for a minute, and replied, “Well, I guess that makes me a crackpot.” The mathematician responded by pointing out that he was not a crackpot for thinking that pi might someday be expressed as a ratio of whole numbers, because he was not aware that pi was proven to be irrational. He went on to say, a crackpot is one who continues to argue when confronted with proof. William D. Cohan falls into the latter category
Global warming scientists withhold exculpatory evidence all the time. There should be a significant penalty for that. They should be permanently banned from scientific work. They really belong in the arts of deception such as law and leftist politics.
He’s a Democrat, so it’s no surprise. It’s what they do. Another example of one who would have trouble crossing the street without getting hit.
“””Oh, it will sell well the the “They were guilty” circle.
They’ll say “See, they were guilty. It’s in the book.””””
OJ also wrote a book proclaiming his innocence. Both people that bought the book agreed with him.
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