OPINION: 1,166 Pieces Of Evidence And No Due Process

By Ronald S. Katz, Manatt Phelps and Phillips LLP (December 15, 2016, 12:35 PM EST) -- Judges are well known for admonishing lawyers not to try their cases in the press. And with good reason: the procedures worked out by courts and legislatures over the years are expressly designed to insure fairness. The second installment, issued Dec. 9, of the so-called McLaren Report on alleged state-sponsored Russian athlete doping is an excellent example of why these procedures — tedious and boring though they may seem to those who are not being accused of something — are important, notwithstanding the McLaren Report's unopposed submission of 1,166 pieces of evidence....

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