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Professor of Law Alan Dershowitz, appellate counsel for Mike Tyson, and Assistant Professor of Law Charles J. Ogletree, who represented Anita Hill in front of the U.S. Senate last fall, addressed a crowd of 400 in Ames Courtroom Wednesday...
Dershowitz, who stirred up controversy by agreeing to defend Tyson, argued that his client is one of many men falsely accused. or sexually assaulted," Dershowitz said,arguing that allowing an occasionally guilty manto go free may be the price paid for protectingthe innocent...
...Tyson was convicted of raping beauty pageantcontestant Desiree Washington early this year...
Events of this past year have sensitized Americans more that ever to violence against women in this country. The Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas hearings and the William Kennedy Smith and Mike Tyson rape trials brought concerns for the safety of women in the workplace and in the bedroom to the fore of much public discussion...
...forlorn way, a sort of collective moral life of the nation gets enacted through the ordeal stories. They dramatize the problem. They dramatize the resolution. Here is a sample Rashomon of rape -- Willie Smith's accuser pacing the lawn with Archpriestess Diane. Here is Mike Tyson. Here is life and death itself: poor Michael Landon slowly dying in full view of the congregation of Johnny Carson and PEOPLE...