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The DA's New Clothes, or, McCowen Unbound
04/19/11 · 9:00 am :: posted by CCToday ShareThis
Everything you always wanted to know about the Christa Worthington murder,
But couldn't get District Attorney Michael O'Keefe to tell us
By Walter Brooks
Book publishers, like other commercial enterprises, send out publicity materials. CapeCodToday.com, like other news outlets, has recently received pre-publication notices from Simon & Schuster, who are bringing out Peter Manso's "Reasonable Doubt" on July 5th. Impressed with the blurbs Manso's been getting, we thought it would be fun to share these endorsements with you as a mix 'n match, requiring readers to link each blurb with its correct author.
First the blurbs, and then authors. See if you can match them.
REASONABLE DOUBT
The Fashion Writer, Cape Cod, and the Trial of Chris McCowen
by Peter Manso
The publisher's cover followed by our own version
1. "The Christa Worthington murder case on [old] Cape Cod is an unusually captivating story, and Peter Manso has expertly plumbed the depths of it to write a riveting book that true crime fans will love."
2. "Peter Manso's account of the police and prosecutorial misconduct occurring in one case represents widespread practices that send thousands of black, Hispanic, Native American and poor whites to American prisons each day. His investigation...invited retaliation from a system that often treats its critics in the same way it treats its victims."
3. "Only the fearless and risk-taking Peter Manso, capitalizing on his unique familiarity with the culture of the Cape and its denizens, including the victim of this horrible killing, could have written this powerful expose of prosecutorial corruption and the conviction of a possibly innocent victim of racial stereotyping. It will shock, enrage and educate you."
4. "Manso is a fearless enemy of hypocrisy, a great investigative reporter. Power brokers and officials who feed off their own inflated sense of self-importance have no greater foe. If every community in America had a Peter Manso there'd be no place for the bad guys to hide."
5. "Sex, courtroom drama, racism, social class, justice denied, a police procedural entwined in an exciting, well-written, true story. Don't start reading in the evening unless you're up for a sleepless night."
6. "Intrepid and meticulous, Manso gets it all ... This is the dark side of the Cape that whispers in bad dreams, screams down the alley ... and hides out of sight on sunny days when tourists wonder the quaint old streets or lie on the sand in bliss."
7. "Probing and timely. Reasonable Doubt puts the system under the microscope and what it reveals should be read by defense attorneys, prosecutors, judges and concerned citizens alike."
Here are the authors, but the numbers don't apply to the ones above. For the matches scroll down.
1. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School professor; best-selling author of The Trials of Zion
2. Nicholas Von Hoffman, columnist, New York Observer; author of Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky, Citizen Cohn and others
3. Barry Scheck, Co-founder of the Innocence Project, President of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
4. Ishmael Reed, author of Juice
5. Morton Dean, former anchor, CBS Evening News
6. Vincent Bugliosi, Los Angeles County prosecutor of Charles Manson; author of Helter Skelter and, most recently, Outrage
7. Jeremy Larner, poet (Chicken on Church), novelist (Drive, He Said), and Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay for The Candidate
To match the correct author with his blurb, scroll down.
ANSWERS: 1-6; 2-4; 3-1; 4-5; 5-2; 6-7; 7-3)
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04/19/11 @ 10:25 am
woodsman [Member] writes:
As if enough hasn't been already written about this case....yawn
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04/19/11 @ 10:42 am
sandyshoes [Member] writes:
When you have the facts on your side; pound the facts.
When you have the law on your side ; pound the law.
When you have nothing; pond the table!
Peter Manso has neither the facts not the law to argue against the conviction of this defendant for a brutal murder. A conviction based in part upon admissions of guilt by the defendant. The defendant may not have qualified for MENSA but he thought knew enough to talk his way around the cops. He did not and his own explanation of involvement with the crime was used against him. That sound you may hear above the roar of the ocean of Cape Cod Bay; that's Peter Manso pounding on the table to sell books. I'll wait for the book to be available at the public library thank you.
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04/19/11 @ 11:00 am
Richard [Member] writes:
A few years back, O'Keefe sent a female undercover to entrap a Falmouth High School kid into selling a small amount of weed to her on school grounds. She called the kid on a cell phone and he said he'd meet her downtown but she insisted that it had to be at the school because she had classes. O'Keefe, of course, had to be at the kid's arraignment at Falmouth District Court because the local press was covering this oh-so-important drug bust.
I was going into the Courthouse on other business and saw O'Keefe outside smoking a cigarette. So I chided him for smoking and he replied "but it's legal." That not only begs the question about the drug laws themselves, but about O'Keefe's morality. Sure, it's illegal to sell weed, and even more so on school grounds, so why was he spending our federal tax dollars to entrap teenage boys into breaking the law? You don't suppose it was to enhance his conviction rate to get even more of our federal tax dollars to spend on entrapping teenage boys into even greater "crimes", do you? Nah! 'Course not.
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04/19/11 @ 11:56 am
Walker [Member] writes:
Richard,
Do you realize that this is the third time you have tried to captivate us with this dreary tale of your unparalleled cleverness in the last 5 months? Perhaps possessing such a superior intellect and unparalleled lucidity on the issue facing the world, as you remind us ad nauseum, wouldn’t your efforts be better spent as....."Cape and Islands DA Richard Latimer"?
Isn’t it your civic duty to save the Cape? Once you accomplish that during your first week in office you could set your sights on unseating "Cosmoboy."
Sky's the limit Counselor!
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04/19/11 @ 12:31 pm
bittersweet [Member] writes:
AWESOME!!
How you like that clam, you're in good company!!
Yeah, what was it crusader always used to say? Go back to your dancing fiddler crabs? lol
Vindication will come.
Of that I have no doubt.
But it won't be joyful, it will be SHAMEFUL.
Shame shame shame...a thousand times shame.
Not only is the system coming down, the little roaches hiding in the dark will have to come out too.
Apocalypse Now. (and not Beck's apocalypse, the real one)
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04/19/11 @ 1:15 pm
woodsman [Member] writes:
The guilty party is in jail where he belongs. Enough of the muck-raking.
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04/19/11 @ 8:13 pm
755855 [Member] writes:
Half the guys on the list I have no real respct for. Morton Dean, the second amchor? he summers in Truro so why not give him a copy, right? Barry Scheck? Got a criminal off when we all know OJ is guilty. Alan Dershowitz never reallytakes one stand or another, always the one that will create controversy and sorry but Bugliosi is famous for what, convicting a criminal that everyone knew commited the crime? Did anyone really think Manson was going to walk?
So after all his research and awakening of the community to the bad in the system that we all live under on the cape, what has Peter Manso, the fearless enemy of hypocrisy, done to correct the situation in his own town or across the cape?
Nothing.
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04/19/11 @ 8:52 pm
supercrew [Member] writes:
Ya but- Robert George is gonna get the conviction overturned! He's going to have the rightousness of honesty and integrity and the nobility of a defense attorney to ferret out wrongdoing! huh? wha? did george do sumting wrong/? oh.... nevermind....
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04/20/11 @ 6:49 am
bittersweet [Member] writes:
Have a great summer apologists....it's gonna get hot.
FREE CHRIS MCCOWEN
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04/20/11 @ 8:17 am
bugsbunny [Member] writes:
Whitey Bulgers Nephew Trained O'Keefe . I was Followed down to this Location. All The Creeps from Barnstable Court were at My Hotel. One guy with a Swedish accent drops a gold pen on my Towel .I had Heard " All The ponies were going to be in town. " My dad and I go to a Bar . This guy introduces himself to me as Whiteys nephew. he told me " I Trained O'Keefe , He F**** up Bigtime , That was a Mob hit ! I am working on another mobhit right now . Could you do some work for me ? Write this down. theres someone Worse than Madoff but HMS told The Judge not to Indict him ? " I went to take out the Gold pen . My dad whispers in my ear " Dont ." I Notice the guys in the Room - Mobsters , Cops on The take , feds , The guy That gave me the pen . One guy says " theres a lot of Ponies in Town ." Then Whitey Bulger walks in. Men start To Fllee. My dad says " Lets get out of here." Funny How quickly people left the room. WB was a cross dresser in Ptown . He is alive and well. The FBI knows where he is. I get the vibe he likes men. He was hidden at a Nudist colony in W.Palm beach. Wanted ?
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04/20/11 @ 8:41 am
bugsbunny [Member] writes:
Mobsters , all these stories that They hate each other , they dont . Their Old school. This winter I saw them hanging out - Irish , Italians fron the N.End , WB showed up again. Even Cru said " WB Hung out at The Sons Of Italy . " They like me. They will say " Were Old school , Its not Like how it use to be in the old days . " Like they had rules and a code of honor. Manso May Not expose the drug cartels in Ptown . I havnt Read his Novel yet. Truro Police - Howie Winters gang. I always Liked the Ptown cops and Portuguese people . The Fisherman had to make a Living . There was a Big Connection Between Ptown and The Carribean . Ptown use to supply the whole East coast . S Bostons Waterfront is the new port. The drugs are coming in from AfGhanistan, Columbia, Mexico , Costa Rica - Its a Major Port . Linda Silvas murder was very suspicious. Christys murder never Got solved . Guess who our new Drug Dealers are ? Guess who took over The old mobsters Role ? Corruption - In My Theory - Homeland securities , Coast guard, Feds, Statetroopers , Cops - These guys are on the take.
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04/20/11 @ 8:39 pm
supercrew [Member] writes:
Time for your meds bugsbunny!
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04/20/11 @ 8:51 pm
captain's daddy [Member] writes:
He/she is correct that there is a connection between Provincetown and the Carribean, though. It's called the ATLANTIC OCEAN!
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04/21/11 @ 12:06 am
755855 [Member] writes:
Bugs,
when the men in white come to get you, hold your arms out stright. It'll be harder for them to get the net over you.
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04/21/11 @ 6:33 am
bittersweet [Member] writes:
"Homeland securities , Coast guard, Feds, Statetroopers , Cops - These guys are on the take."
Makes sense to me...after all,who has more access? You know how they always say "If you want to change they system, you have to do it from within"? Well, Same if you want to game it!
Besides, it's funny watching you all try to smear bugs when you brainiacs believed that verdict.
Yeah--ALL that evidence left untested, because you know---they NEVER test evidence, do they?
I mean come-on. Why test? AHAHA--You people will believe whatever they throw at ya.
Dumbing down...it applies to you too you know.
We only ever believe what we want to believe....until we are hit with a hammer to the head. It always takes that to wake people up.
Even then, it won't work on some people.
I would just say this, since the holiday is nearing:
For anyone who likes to throw the crazy card out there--
Remember, many people believe a woman was impregnanted by a spirit, and gave birth to the son of God.
Don't be so quick to judge, or to close your mind.