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Bad lawyering for ColoradoU in Churchill mess?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

The Denver Post wrote of questioning of accused plagiarist Ward Churchill by a CU attorney:

Patrick O'Rourke, a CU attorney, saw his questioning backfire at one point when he asked Churchill if he was really arguing that he didn't recognize the Cohen essay when he had edited it once before, for another book, just months earlier.

O'Rourke had the title pages of both versions of the essay put up on a big screen in an attempt to show that they had the same title. But they did not.

One wonders if the two Cohen essays involved any self-plagiarism / multiple publication by Cohen or if O'Rourke made a self-evident mistake? If the former, using plagiarism to attack a plagiarist is sublimely ironic.

See also

Churchill plagiarism investigation the flip side of Poshard story?

Full post as published by IPBiz on March 30, 2009 (boomark / email).