Someone asked me yesterday if I had read Wendy Murphy’s book, And Justice for Some. I didn’t even know that she had written a book. I asked if it was about the Duke Lacrosse players and Wendy’s role as supplicant to the alter of Nifong. Nope, in fact, it doesn’t even mention the Duke case, even though Wendy was given a cot in Bill O’Reilly’s office so she could be ever-ready to spew. Why should Nancy Grace have all the fun?
This book, apparently, is supposed to be some insiders guide to the lies and tricks of criminal defense lawyers and their pocket buddy judges in getting the guilty off. Well, thatpeaked piqued my interest. After all, if there are good tricks to be learned, shouldn’t I learn them? Just for academic purposes, I assure you.
So my research began, and the first thing I saw was this picture of Wendy on the cover of the book looking, well, pretty good. Hair sweeping back in the wind, which isn’t easy to have happen naturally when you take a photograph indoors. But this is a serious person, “a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School . . . and teaches an advanced seminar on sexual violence at the New England School of Law in Boston.” Do you think somebody who teaches at law school is going to demean herself with a beauty shot on the cover? I don’t. She’s just a hottie.
And so it came as no surprise that, as the bottom of her book website bio, this little tidbit is revealed: She’s a former NFL cheerleader! It’s not like Greta can say that. I wonder what team? No matter. Wendy Murphy is a renaissance woman. She does it all.
But then came the downside. It seems that KC Johnson, in his brilliant blawg Durham-In-Wonderland, was enticed by the wonder of Wendy Murphy as well. And well before me (and with good reason, given Wendy’s omnipresence on the Mike Nifong side of truth and justice ). So KC did a short spin through the life of Wendy.
This book, apparently, is supposed to be some insiders guide to the lies and tricks of criminal defense lawyers and their pocket buddy judges in getting the guilty off. Well, that
So my research began, and the first thing I saw was this picture of Wendy on the cover of the book looking, well, pretty good. Hair sweeping back in the wind, which isn’t easy to have happen naturally when you take a photograph indoors. But this is a serious person, “a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School . . . and teaches an advanced seminar on sexual violence at the New England School of Law in Boston.” Do you think somebody who teaches at law school is going to demean herself with a beauty shot on the cover? I don’t. She’s just a hottie.
And so it came as no surprise that, as the bottom of her book website bio, this little tidbit is revealed: She’s a former NFL cheerleader! It’s not like Greta can say that. I wonder what team? No matter. Wendy Murphy is a renaissance woman. She does it all.
But then came the downside. It seems that KC Johnson, in his brilliant blawg Durham-In-Wonderland, was enticed by the wonder of Wendy Murphy as well. And well before me (and with good reason, given Wendy’s omnipresence on the Mike Nifong side of truth and justice ). So KC did a short spin through the life of Wendy.
Murphy’s bizarre claims to USA Today prompted me to perform a Lexis/Nexis search of her myriad case-related appearances. The results were deeply disturbing. In addition to the outrageous quotes highlighted above, on at least 18 occasions over the past nine months, Murphy has made demonstrably untrue statements. She also has engaged in a pattern of wholly unfounded speculation and has routinely denigrated due process.
The results of KCs efforts are quite damning. I can’t explain this, but Wendy Murphy no longer looks that good to me.
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That’s funny because I actually just ran across that book the other day. When you read the cover flap, your jaw drops. I know practice is a little different in the Northeast from Texas, but she made it seem it was a forgone conclusion your client walked. Must be nice.
I thought about buying just so I could post about it, but I couldn’t force myself to drop $20 on it.
But she is hot. Smoking hot in fact.
she made it seem it was a forgone conclusion your client walked.
What are you Texas guys doing wrong? Why else would our prisons be empty and the US have the lowest incarceration rate in the world. We’re just slapping them criminals on the wrist and sending them on their merry way.
We have a lot to learn down here. I will admit that. Like how to make good Chinese Food.
Or a decent bagel…
She certainly is very attractive. I will not be reading her book.
This woman gives me the shivers. After reading and listening to her spew her nonsense about the duke case, one has to wonder how she keeps her job at NESL or Harvard. She has no regard for law or due process if it doesn’t serve her agenda. Hot or not this woman should frighten every man in this country
Something “piques” interest, not “peaks.”
Check the dictionary if in doubt. Interest can grow and peak (intransitive verbs) just as it can wane and bottom out (more intransitive verbs).
Thanks for the correction. I’m always in the market for an editor, if you’re interested.
Wendy Murphy should have her own show on HLN, replacing Nancy Grace!!!!!