It is ACC tournament time, and basketball competition among North Carolina’s universities is fierce. U.S. News has just released its annual law school rankings, meaning that competition among the state’s law schools is also fierce. Duke takes top honors, cracking the coveted top 10. (Well, tied for number 10, anyway.) UNC and Wake Forest are tied for number 31, while Campbell is tied for number 131 121 [thanks to a reader for calling this error to my attention, and my apologies to the good folks at Campbell]. It looks like numerical rankings aren’t assigned beyond 150, and none of the state’s remaining law schools passed that threshold. In other news: Fatal Vision author dies. Joe McGinniss, who wrote the book Fatal Vision about the Jeffrey MacDonald murder case, died this week. This Washington Post piece is short and informative. It characterizes Fatal Vision as “one of the best non-fiction books ever written,” and explains how McGinniss ingratiated himself with the defense team; subsequently wrote a book that portrayed the defendant as a psychopath; and then saw his own career ruined by allegations of journalistic misconduct. Muckraking story about extradition. A colleague pointed me to this USA Today story about fugitives. The gist of the article is that some law enforcement agencies in some states sometimes decline to extradite their fugitives, often for financial reasons, and that some fugitives commit terrible crimes that might not have happened had they been extradited and prosecuted. There’s a follow-up piece, plus several interesting sidebars and [...]
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