Nifong Is in Deep Doo-Doo!
December 28th, 2006 | by Craig R. Harmon |The North Carolina bar filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of saying misleading or inflammatory things to the news media about the athletes under suspicion.The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment.
I wouldn’t like to be in the Prosecutor’s shoes. He’s been under investigation by the bar since about two weeks after the party where a mentally unstable stripper accused 20, no make that 5, no make that 4, no make that 3…yeh, yeh 3 Duke Lacrosse team members of raping her. The rape charges have now been dropped but not the kidnapping and sexual assault charges. The most recent news to come out of this travesty is the possible collusion between Nifong and the dna testing lab director to leave out the lab’s findings of exculpatory evidence from the summary report that was turned over to the defense.
I would run through the near countless reasons why Nifong should be not just disbarred but imprisoned for criminal misconduct but Stuart Taylor, Jr. and K. C. Johnson at the Wall Street Journal Online have already done that so I’ll just let them tell you all about it.
12 Responses to “Nifong Is in Deep Doo-Doo!”
By Jersey McJones on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Man, have you ever got a hard-on for this bullshit!
JMJ
By Jersey McJones on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Can I ask you of some of your opinions?
1) OJ was innocent?
2) Clarence Thomas never put a pube on Anita Hill’s Pepsi?
3) The War in Iraq was and still is a good idea?
4) Bush served in the miliitary honorably but Kerry did not?
Seems to me, what we have here is a failure to credi-municate!
JMJ
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Jersey, it’s you with a hard-on for bullshit.
The evidence says this accuser was not raped in that bathroom. She’s changed her story repeatedly to account for the evidence, the prosecutor has out and out colluded to eliminate exculpatory evidence from the report given to the defense. But I’ll play along with your bullshit. 1) Don’t know, I wasn’t there. The evidence that I saw at trial left me with reasonable doubt that that, my man, is the standard for aquital. 2) I think that Clarence Thomas probably did. 3) I think the war was justifiable though badly timed and executed. 4) Bush and Kerry both served; Bush test-flying jets here at home and Kerry in Vietnam. As far as I know, both served honorably.
None of which is relevant to this issue. Please…if you can’t just deal with the issue at hand, go diddle yourself or something and quit wasting our time with your tantrums.
By Paul Watson on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Craig,
Surely that should be “the prosecutor appears have out and out colluded”. After all, innocent until proven guilty applies to him as much as to the students.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Yes, Paul, you are right. It’s just that I get so frustrated with Jersey ignoring issues raised in the post and diverting attention to anything but that I sometimes get sloppy.
Thanks for correcting me.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Here’s a good summary of the reasons that I have such a “hard-on for this bullshit” as Jersey has put it.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Oops, I guess I already gave that link in the post. Sorry about that.
By Jersey McJones on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
There’s something you all are eggregiously forgetting - Durham NC has a long troubled history with race. If Nifong had just ignored this girl, there’s a significant chance that the city would have erupted. He did his best, I think, which wasn’t much, apparently, and he brought his case. American justice will be done. The evidence is slim, so slim in fact that I can’t imagine these kids will get in any more trouble. I believe they did something bad, but that’s just my opinion. It means nothing to the law. Nifong hedged just a little at first and the signs were bad - the community might’ve exploded had he not done something. He did. Now we’ll see where all this goes. That’s just life in America, gang.
JMJ
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Jersey,
There’s lots of middle ground between ignoring the girl — which in point of fact, I could argue he has done since he still, as far as I know, has not personally interviewed the accuser — and knowingly going to a grand jury with a rape charge with full knowlege that there was zero evidence that anyone at the party raped anyone let alone the accuser and with knowledge that there was evidence that actually exculpated the boys from the charge. Both are wrong.
The prosecutor is responsible for the case before him, not for solving the racial problems from the past and present by pressing a prosecution that he had to know was bogus.
By Craig R. Harmon on Dec 29, 2006 | Reply
Nifong committed so many procedural no-nos that he’s likely to be disbarred. If that’s his best, God help the people of Durham. They need a new prosecutor stat.