Prosecutorial Injustice Commonplace, Says Duke Lacrosse Rape Case Attorney

James Cooney
October 18, 2007

A year ago this month, James P. Cooney III ’82 was in the middle of a jury trial, defending a hospital in a wrongful death action, when an old friend called to ask him to take on another case. “You will never have a more innocent client,” Cooney recalls being told by Joseph Cheshire. 

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