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'Fantastic Lies' 30 for 30

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Lugnuts, Mar 12, 2016.

  1. SnarkShark

    SnarkShark Well-Known Member

    I had forgotten Gottlieb killed himself. That fucking guy was a disgrace to law enforcement.
     
  2. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    I don't see how justice prevailed before technology (DNA, cell phone records, ATM records, etc).

    The show was pretty damn good considering that the five biggest protagonists (3 players, Nifong, Chrystal) didn't speak.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    The short answer, I can tell you from my experience re-investigating some convictions from before that time, is that it very frequently didn't.

    One project I would like to take on some day, given the time and resources, is to basically start re-investigate a year of homicide convictions in Chicago. Perhaps from the '80s.
     
  4. mateen

    mateen Well-Known Member

    This piece by KC Johnson, the history professor who obsessively followed the case and coauthored Until Proven Innocent, the best book on the case, does not paint a very favorable picture of William Cohan, who appears to have believed everything Nifong ever told him.


    William D. Cohan, Truth-Seeker
     
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