RALEIGH — Today, Carolina Journal’s Donna Martinez discusses possible changes to N.C. criminal justice procedure in the wake of the Duke lacrosse case with Kieran Shanahan, a former Federal prosecutor, former Raleigh City Councilman and currently a practicing attorney in Raleigh. The interview aired on Carolina Journal Radio. (Go to http://carolinajournal.com/cjradio/ to find a station near you or to learn about the weekly CJ Radio podcast.)
Much of the media are desperately trying to rehabilitate themselves in the wake of the Duke lacrosse exonerations.
Is market behavior essentially competitive or cooperative? Under circumstances described as the Prisoner's Dilemma, the individual's rational, self-interested actions have perverse consequences for society. But laws that fully define property rights, and laws that protect and uphold contracts based upon property rights, can eliminate most of the perverse consequences that result when property owners' self-interest conflicts with community interest.
