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Tears Of A Clown **Nifong Alert**
IBD Editorials ^ | 19 June 2007 | Staff

Posted on 06/19/2007 4:47:21 PM PDT by Kitten Festival

Justice: Mike Nifong weeps at the consequences of persecuting three college kids for a crime they did not commit. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby enters prison for a crime that never occurred.

With tears in his eyes, Durham County District Attorney Nifong on Friday announced he was resigning, saying the "community has suffered enough," three members in particular.

They would be the three Duke lacrosse players vindictively prosecuted by Nifong for the rape and sexual assault of a stripper at a March 2006 party despite evidence they were innocent.

But it was too little too late.

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KEYWORDS: duke; dukelax; dukerapecase; nifong; rogueprosecutor; scooterlibby
Disgusting case. Clown indeed!
1 posted on 06/19/2007 4:47:24 PM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

I hope this rat ends up in prison in a cell with someone else he prosecuted wrongly, and the guards look the other way.


2 posted on 06/19/2007 4:49:26 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Kitten Festival

Now, how about Ronnie Earl ??? I am sure the list is VERY long.


3 posted on 06/19/2007 4:51:12 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Gee, I wonder why Nifong did not think of this before he withheld DNA evidence while he knew he had three innocent kids on trial?


4 posted on 06/19/2007 4:51:51 PM PDT by Always Right
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To: Kitten Festival

It hardly seems fair, what with Fitzgerald still on the loose.


5 posted on 06/19/2007 5:05:08 PM PDT by marron
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To: Kitten Festival
Justice: Mike Nifong weeps at the consequences of persecuting three college kids for a crime they did not commit. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby enters prison for a crime that never occurred.

So much for the doctrine of the Immaculate Conviction.

6 posted on 06/19/2007 5:15:31 PM PDT by Clint Williams (Read Roto-Reuters -- we're the spinmeisters!)
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To: EagleUSA

Fits. Eliot Spits[on]her.


7 posted on 06/19/2007 5:37:36 PM PDT by Still Thinking (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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To: Kitten Festival
Justice: Mike Nifong weeps at the consequences of persecuting three college kids for a crime they did not commit. Meanwhile, Scooter Libby enters prison for a crime that never occurred.

And our brave Haditha Marines are persecuted for being in the battle zone and fighting back.

All of these are part of the political wars. They will destroy America when the guilty go free and the innocent are ruined.

But there will be a day of reckoning.

8 posted on 06/19/2007 6:29:25 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain And Proud of It! Those who support the troops will pray for them to WIN!)
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