Posted on 10/30/2006 1:29:49 PM PST by SmithL
I wonder what the voters of Durham are going to do next Tuesday?
"Armchair lawyers"?! The AP reporter couldn't manage to get through even one sentence of a "news" article without editorializing.
I would guess they will RE-elect him since it's mostly Dems.
The whole point of the case was winning the primary against his fellow Democratic opponent.
This is the grossest lawyer misconduct I have have ever seen by a corrupt prosecutor. Nifong belongs behind bars for a long, long time.
The News & Observer and WRAL-TV poll asked 600 likely voters in Durham County whom they would vote for in the district attorney's race. Of those polled, 46 percent said they would vote for Nifong. 28 percent of respondents who said they would vote for county Commissioner Lewis Cheek. Two percent of those polled said they planned to vote for write-in candidate Steve Monks.”
“The poll, conducted between Oct. 16 and Oct. 19, found that 24 percent of those surveyed remained undecided, enough to change the outcome of the election.
That ole' "might have", "may have intended", the symbolic picture of all those guys and one innocent little college girl.. just makes him stand all the firmer with his finger pointed in air and in everybody faces. It's the classic Democrat "statuette" pose.
Dems only use the index finger so as to not alert the public.
"The prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse rape case has heard the criticism from experts and armchair lawyers,"
DOH!! What about the ACTUAL lawyers that have been saying the man is an idiot. Find me one credible person who thinks Nifong has a snowball's chance in hell of getting a conviction. The freakin' AP.
"The whole point of the case was winning the primary against his fellow Democratic opponent."
Yep. Nifong followed many of his constituents advice. Even if they didn't do it, they need to be convicted just to send a message. I saw that comment quoted from numerous local residents of color. If the races were reversed, it would be the deep south in the 50's.
Ain't it the truth. What scolds. Can you imagine what fun the zot kittens would have with them and their tiny little mousey fingers, too?
There is a non-trivial percentage of the population in some areas that would vote to convict just about any white person for a crime against just about any black person, no matter how non-existent the evidence of guilt and overwhelming the evidence of innocense. Getting twelve such people on a jury would be extremely unlikely (even if half the population was like that, there'd be only a 1 in 4,000 chance of picking twelve such people at random; if it's a quarter of the population, the likelihood would be 1 in 16,000,000). On the other hand, the odds of getting two such people on the jury would be significant.
I don't think Nifong's necessarily trying for a conviction. But if he can manage a hung jury and then drop the case, he'll call that a "win". Actually, for him a hung jury may be better than a conviction, since a conviction could be appealed and overturned while a hung jury could not. A hung jury would aid Nifong's defense against prosecutorial misconduct far more effectively than would a conviction that was overturned.
There have been cases where juries have nearly voted to convict even in the absence of any incriminating evidence. See: "Satanic ritual abuse" hysteria from early 80's-mid 90's. Despite a total lack of actual evidence in all of the known cases, instead almost unbelievably unethical, coercive and suggestive interviews with children were relied on. Public opinions in those cases often ran over 90% in favor of conviction.
Luckily there's enough here that even if they were convicted there has been enough malfeasance by Dipfong to get any convictions overturned on procedural grounds alone.
LOL! They look just like twins separated at birth, don't they? Can you put them side by side?
I agree. That's why I personally suspect Nifong doesn't really want a conviction. If he gets a hung jury and then drops the case, nobody will be able to appeal the hung jury, and Nifong will still be able to claim he had a case but the boys got out on a "technicality". Further, the case against Nifong is a slam-dunk if it can be shown that he couldn't possibly have reasonably believed that he had a case. If he scores a hung jury, however, he could argue that the fact that some jurors thought he had a case would show his belief was reasonable.
sure, he can call the three accused names and have their pictures on poster board, and rant like the idiot he is, but in the end he just claim that he wasn't in the "loop".
forget about this case being fairly adjudicated.....the black folk of Durham will not even read the evidence and they will ignore the testimony or lack of testimony, and convict just because....I don't trust them one iota.....
Found this quote in another article on the same interview yesterday:
"His tone was decidedly aggressive, as Nifong called the players "hooligans" used to having "expensive lawyers" get them out of trouble. He denounced what he called a "blue wall of silence" that had supposedly formed around the perpetrators."
What a pompus, socialist pig of an elected official.
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