Duke Lacrosse Challenge
You’ve heard a lot about the Duke case, but do you know how the lawyers score
on the finer points of legal usage? See what issues you spot in these five
sentences:
- Thus, despite telling Sgt. Gottlieb that she could identify the three men
by their first names, and then giving him three names, the accuser now, after
the passage of 8 months, claims that she could only identify two men by first
names[.]
- All of these news conferences presented only his side of this issue and
were made prior to him personally submitting these charges to the Grand Jury.
- If, however, the accuser was telling the truth on March 14, this would
mean that Dave Evans now must be “Matt.”
- This conduct had the effect of propelling the District Attorney’s name and
image into the national and local press and media during his highly-contested
election campaign.
- In his zeal to push this case forward, and claim the national spotlight,
on March 31, 2006, DA Nifong met with Durham Police Investigators and
improperly injected himself into the photographic lineup proceedings, causing
the Durham Police Department to violate its own policies in an effort to insure
himself a source of information from which he could indict one or more Duke
Lacrosse players.
Play-by-Play Analysis of These Sentences
