Fordham Law School Professor is mentioned in a CBS News report on Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice.
But Jim Cohen, a Fordham law professor and New York City defense attorney, says it would be nonsense for prosecutors to blame the victim’s lack of cooperation in not seeking a harsher punishment.
“In these kinds of cases, prosecutors deal all the time with reluctant witnesses. They have ways to persuade the witness that she needs to speak up. They obviously didn’t exercise any of those ways,” Cohen told Crimesider.
Read/watch the entire report here.