Newsweek, March 12, 2012
Page 14 NewsBeast, Controversy
Dershowitz Convicts DSK
By John Solomon
The theater-style, fluorescent-lit classroom at Harvard University's law school was virtually silent on a crisp fall afrernoon. And why not? It's not everyday that law students get the chance to see one of America's most famous defense lawyers assume the role of prosecutor.
There in the pit of the classroom...And he was intent on teaching his students a lesson on how courageous prosecutor could divert a jury from the weaknesses of his star witness to focus on the evidence of a sexual attack and the preposterous defense of an elitist Frenchman.
page 15...Maybe it was his rival for the French presidency. Or the guy staying next door to him in room 2820. Or the French intelligence agents who he believed bugged and then took his IMF cellphone. "Now, back in law school we had a name for this. We called it the 'multiple-choice defense.' And he's been playing it. You don't like this defense? Don't worry, I got another one for you...So where did Vance's team go wrong with Strauss-Kahn? Dershowitz says Vance "accepted a general rule that you can't win a sexual-assault case unless you believe the victim and I believe that is a flawed analysis." Second, prosecutors failed to realize that had they taken the DSK case to trial, "his defense would have sunk him..."
David CK Chang, SSN057-86-4042,
March 7, 2012,
New Taipei City Library,
Panchiao, New Taipei City
