The Central Park Jogger - Some Quick Reactions
Jeanne d'Arc, Body and Soul: "And what interests me is... the myth. It's a theme that weave through a lot of stories I write -- the way a belief, often a mistaken one, influences the choices we make, the world we create."
In what seems to have become a regular feature here, I posted a review of the Central Park Jogger case on Saturday.
Susanna Cornett will be keeping an eye on this story, and me. If I am swept away by an eagle, please check her blog.
Mark Kleiman has kind words for me, and other words, both in a new post and in an update to his original post.
Max Power has a few thoughts on innumeracy as posted at Body and Soul (probably easiest to follow his link).
And, in a bit of a jaw-dropper, I find a brilliant summary of the Left theme for the Central Park Jogger posted last Sunday, Sept 15, at, helpfully, Talk Left:
"Lots of people are weighing in this week on the topic of the recently disclosed wrongful convictions of five youths in the 1989 Central Park Jogger case. Recent DNA testing (and the confession of someone previously uncharged in the crime) has established that the five defendants who were convicted of the rape and served time for it were in fact not the rapists.
Instapundit believes that the real issue is not whether the system makes mistakes, because they all do, but whether the mistakes were made in good or bad faith....
Well, this is exactly the idea I am trying to rebut. And progress is slow.
I should note that the InstaPundit linked to my first rebuttal at 4:23 PM. Talk Left introduced Glenn as a suppporting authority on the same Sunday, but I can not make out a timestamp. Lots of legal stuff in the ensuing week, since their motto is "Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news", but no follow up on this case. Yet, I persist.
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