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Durham, N.C. — Mike Nifong is appealing an order issued last week by a bankruptcy judge who ruled a civil rights lawsuit by three former Duke University lacrosse players can proceed. Nifong filed for bankruptcy earlier this year, which temporarily protected him from the lawsuit, which claimed he, the city of Durham and others conspired to keep a weak case alive as he faced an election. David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann were cleared in April 2007 of all charges stemming from an exotic dancer's claims she was raped. Nifong listed a debt of more than $180 million –...

CULTURE WATCH, Volume 17 by Nancy Morgan Right BiasLast week saw lots of good news from Iraq and Afghanistan. The most amazing news of all, however, is that this news is being reported by the likes of the New York Times and the Washington Post. Now that they're reporting it, I guess its officially: GOOD NEWS:Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael Hayden now portrays that terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia. His sentiments are echoed by the commander of British forces in Iraq who...

Disgraced Duke prosecutor lists $180M in liabilities A summary schedule from Nifong's Chapter 7 petition can be found below. Almost all of that sum represents legal claims filed against the former Durham County district attorney by members of Duke's 2006 lacrosse team, including the three players who were accused of raping a stripper at a team party. Included among Nifong's assets are a 2003 Honda Accord, about $9000 in personal property, and his $235,000 home. He lists nearly $5000 monthly in pension or retirement income and describes himself, charitably, as retired. snip

RALEIGH (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice will not investigate former Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong for his handling of the case, a spokesman for the agency said Wednesday. That decision also jeopardizes a possible investigation at the state level, according to a spokeswoman for Attorney General Roy Cooper, who said prosecutors in North Carolina can't indict someone on charges of lying to investigators. The DOJ carefully considered the case but decided that it was an issue better resolved inside the state, said spokesman Peter Carr in a statement. "We believe the State of North Carolina has the primary...

At this point, there seems little doubt about the ugliness that has simmered, and then boiled, in a little town in Louisiana called Jena. There is a lot that has already been said, and done, about the latent racism in the town that led to the display of nooses on a tree. Racism that led, in reaction, to six black youths brutally beating a young white man, and then the subsequent disproportionate sentencing, in which those black youths could have served prison time for trumped-up murder charges. Action has been taken, and will be taken, so that those charges, and...

At Patton Middle School in McMinnville, Oregon, students created something called "slap butt day." On one such day in February 2007, according to The Oregonian (July 22, 2007): "Two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran -- what some kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher's aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the office, where the vice principal and a police officer stationed at the school soon interrogated them." A police officer interrogated them?...

Much clucking behind television anchor desks follows the airing of popular internet footage of girl fights. After repeated displays of adolescent girls slapping each other, pulling hair, and ripping off clothes, news anchors wonder out loud about the reasons for their popularity among YouTube and other internet viewers. It’s no big secret: This is a genre of pornography. The occasional tough-girl fight on school grounds that one came across with flinching embarrassment is now captured by a video camera for the titillation of millions of sick viewers. The violence factor and the authenticity of the fight are the draws that...

The New York Times alone has mentioned the Scottsboro Boys case from the 1930s nearly 20 times since 2002 (expanding the "news" part of "newspaper" just a bit), so I think I'm entitled to spend at least one more week luxuriating in the Duke lacrosse players' total vindication and the exposure of a Southern liberal prosecutor as a corrupt hack. Twenty years ago, disbarred Duke prosecutor Mike Nifong would have been Time magazine's Man of the Year. Vanity Fair would have photographed him sitting in a Porsche under the headline: "Speaking Truth to Power." One hundred years ago, he would...

If I were Mike Nifong’s son or daughter, I’d change my last name PDQ. Why? Well, principally because that name has now formally become a pejorative in the American argot for anyone who will gleefully roast the innocent for their pipe dream of power. Y’know, it’s just a matter of time before FOX has a new reality show championing the cause of folks who’ve been trampled by such soulless narcissists. The show could be called, “Help! I’m being Nifonged!” Blinded by ambition in his quest to be Durham’s DA, Democrat Mike Nifong (why didn’t you listen to your mother when...

There is nothing so dangerous as a Southern liberal hoping to be invited to a Graydon Carter party. As is now well-known, Durham prosecutor Mike Nifong falsely accused three white Duke lacrosse players of gang-raping a stripper, even as evidence piled up proving it never happened. In the weeks after an unstable stripper — or, since this is not a Hollywood movie, "a stripper" — accused the players of rape, Nifong stated on national TV: "I am convinced that there was a rape." He called the players "hooligans," contemptuously sneering that their "daddies could buy them expensive lawyers." Envy is...

Prosecutor Mike Nifong has been disbarred by a state disciplinary committee for the horrendous way he conducted the prosecution on rape charges of three innocent Duke lacrosse players. Nifong has given up his right to appeal, meaning this verdict is final. However, Nifong could still face criminal charges.

Raleigh — The man who once pursued rape, sexual assault and kidnapping charges against three former Duke lacrosse players who were later declared innocent by North Carolina's attorney general says he will resign. (Watch Mike Nifong's announcement.) "My community has suffered enough," a tearful Mike Nifong said Friday during his testimony at his State Bar ethics trial to the surprise of the families and defense attorneys of the cleared lacrosse players, as well as others in the courtroom. "Throughout the years I have served as a prosecutor I have always tried to do the right thing," a tearful Mike Nifong...

Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: I am sorry. Surely by now you know I am sorry. I am writing these words now, and in this form, as a bookend to 13 months of Duke lacrosse coverage, my role in which started with a March 27 column that began: "Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: You know. We know you know." That was when Durham police and District Attorney Mike Nifong were describing a "wall of silence" among the men who attended the now-vaunted lacrosse party at 610 Buchanan Blvd. Nifong, now described by the state attorney general...

America's news media, an amoral university, an opportunistic district attorney, and a police department that seems to have collaborated in framing innocent students all combined to nearly destroy the lives of three innocent young men -- members of the Duke University lacrosse team. The attorney general of North Carolina announced that all charges -- of rape, sexual assault and whatever other charges a mendacious young woman got Mike Nifong to bring against the Duke lacrosse team players -- were being dropped. He pronounced the students "innocent," not merely "not guilty." And the attorney general also declared Nifong a "rogue prosecutor."...

It's a sad day for the KOmmies and much of the rest of the Left. The Duke Lacrosse players have been completely exonerated by the North Carolina Attorney General. Much of the Left, especially those in the academia, had a lot at stake in the guilt of those Lacrosse players. Rich white privileged boys who MUST be guilty. Except they weren't despite the accusations of guilt by the Left including those infamous 88 Duke profs. Now the shoe is on the other foot and the weight of justice is about to come down hard on corrupt D.A., Mike Nifong....

DURHAM - District Attorney Mike Nifong will have an opportunity April 13 to tell an N.C. State Bar panel why he thinks part of the case against him should be dropped. The hearing, before the Disciplinary Hearing Committee, is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the third-floor courtroom of the N.C. Bar Building, 208 Fayetteville St., Raleigh. The bar has charged Nifong, a veteran prosecutor, with violations of ethical and professional conduct over his handling of the case in which three members of the Duke University lacrosse team were accused of sexually assaulting an escort service dancer at a team party....

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina State Bar has granted Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong a five-day extension to file a written response to ethics charges leveled against him for his handling of the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case.

There's another accusation of rape floating around Durham this week. The accuser was allegedly attacked at a house party this Saturday. The accuser is white. The suspect is black. Heard anything about that? Yeah, I didn't think so. The mainstream media has bent over backward to keep race out of this. Even those who first gave a description of the alleged rapist as a “black man” later redacted that from their reports. The News & Observer never printed it at all. And none has pointed out, as the Duke Chronicle has done, that the alleged victim was white, making this...

DURHAM - With the North Carolina attorney general reviewing the Duke lacrosse case, the new prosecutors must weigh evidence gathered by Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong's chief investigator, whose private detective career was marked by ethics complaints. Nifong hired Linwood E. Wilson, a gospel singer with limited experience working criminal cases, less than four months before the March 13 lacrosse team party at which an escort service dancer said she was raped, beaten and robbed. Wilson, 58, is the only full-time investigator on Nifong's staff. Twenty years ago he was investigated on suspicion of making false statements on the witness...

"And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." Just how low has the reputation of the former DUke lacrosse "rape" prosecuter, Mike Nifong fallen? So low that even many DUmmies now rebuke him as you can see in this THREAD titled, "about the duke lacrosse case...they put themselves in this situation." Although the DUke lacrosse players accused in this "rape" case (now dropped) were initially condemned by the usual leftwing suspects, especially far left Duke...

January 12, 2007, 1:08 p.m. Let Me Tell You a Little Something About Law & OrderNifong’s wrongs. By Fred Thompson Editor's note: Click here to listen to the original audio version of this radio commentary. You know, I not only play a prosecutor on TV, I used to actually be one. So when I see something like the farce that’s playing out in North Carolina it makes my blood boil. Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, who brought the Duke Lacrosse players rape case, has violated just about every rule in the prosecutor’s book. He sat on evidence that indicated the defendant’s innocence....

A trial date [May 11] is now set for the ethics complaint filed against Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong.

Eponym: A word derived from the name of a person. “Quisling,” for example, refers to the Norwegian leader who truckled to the Nazis, and has come to mean anyone who acts in a treasonous manner. “Borking,” recalls Robert Bork, who was refused a Supreme Court appointment after some pointed inquiries. It signifies the process whereby an official is rejected by a committee of judges. “Nixonian” means imperial, guarded, paranoid. And now comes “Nifonging.” Anyone familiar with the so-called Duke Rape Case knows exactly what that word means — betrayal of public office, disgraceful conduct on the part of a district...

It was not just that the head of a DNA laboratory testified under oath in December that he and Mr. Nifong both knew back in April that there was no DNA from any of the Duke University lacrosse players found on the body of the stripper who accused them of rape - or even that the DNA of other men was found in her underwear and in intimate areas of her body. What was really damning was that he and Mr. Nifong had agreed to keep these facts secret, despite requirements that exculpatory evidence be turned over to the defense....

My list of the Most Wanted for 2006 and into the New Year ranks Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong as Public Enemy Number One. His crimes should be punishable by a life sentence for purposely seeking to ruin the lives of Duke lacrosse players because of who they are, not for crimes they allegedly committed. He needs to be separated from society and consigned to a padded cell where he can serve as a symbol to the culture warriors at Duke and in Durham that the days of staining people to achieve the goals of their politically correct agenda are...

The past nine months have been a very difficult time for our family. We are grateful and appreciative to those who have supported us during this time, and particularly grateful [for] the outpouring of support that we have received from Duke alumni. We appreciate the recent comments by Duke University President Broadhead, questioning the basis for the remaining charges against Reade and Mr. Nifong's conduct in ever bringing these charges. We are also glad that Duke University has now made it clear that Reade is welcome to return to the University and look forward to the day that he can...

DURHAM - The swearing-in ceremony for embattled Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong apparently took place inside the Durham County Courthouse this morning while the press and other observers stood outside on the courthouse steps. The ceremony was scheduled for 8 a.m. But the courthouse doesn’t normally open until 8:30 a.m., and a sheriff’s deputy told reporters and others that the doors would remain locked until then. Nifong, who kept a low profile for the first 27 years of his career as a prosecutor in Durham, is now nationally known for his involvement in the sexual assault case against three former...

Now that the North Carolina State Bar has filed a 17-page, 41-count ethics complaint against District Attorney Michael Nifong's handling of the Duke rape case, there's a different kind of New Year's countdown taking place in Durham: when and under what circumstances will Nifong leave office. The Dec. 28 ethics charges are expected to be expanded when the state bar's grievance committee meets again Jan. 18. Like a grand jury, the committee meets periodically; the current ethics charges stem from its most recent meeting in October and cover public statements Nifong made about the case last March and April. At...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- 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.

Raleigh — The North Carolina State Bar has filed an ethics complaint against Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong.

The North Carolina bar filed an ethics complaint Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of breaking four rules of professional conduct when speaking to the reporters about the sensational case. The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment. Among the rules District Attorney Mike Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments "that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public comdemnation of the accuser." In a statement, the bar said it opened a case against Nifong in March 30, a little more than two weeks after the party where...

As of this moment, we're still unsure of all the facts in the Duke "rape" case, but it's looking like the accused players could be getting railroaded to the point where, when this is over, District Attorney Mike Nifong might receive a lucrative job offer from Union Pacific. The prosecution's "evidence" seems to be adding up about as logically as the answers on Paris Hilton's algebra exam, yet the case is still being pursued. Every time we look at somebody who may be falsely accused and wrongly convicted, we should shudder and think, "There but for the grace of God,"...

Frontpage Interview's guest today is KC Johnson, a professor of history at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. With a B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, he specializes in 20th century U.S. political, constitutional, and diplomatic history. He writes a blog, Durham-in-Wonderland, which offers comments and analysis about the Duke/Nifong case. FP: KC Johnson, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Johnson: Thank you for speaking with me. FP: Kindly summarize briefly for our readers what this case involving the three Lacrosse students is about. Johnson: This is the story of how a case virtually devoid of evidence, constructed upon a tissue...

Now that the election is over and this can't be considered just an election ploy : Rumors are said to have been circulating in Durham to the effect that Nifong might consider (legally) going after a couple of bloggers; that if he deals with a couple of them the rest will be intimidated and fade away. This is just a heads up; so that if anything untoward happens, everyone will know about it in advance and be able to make the connection. The rumors are well-sourced.

DURHAM -- Two defense lawyers in the Duke University lacrosse rape case unveiled Thursday what they called a "very significant and disturbing deficiency" in the prosecution's evidence: paperwork indicating District Attorney Mike Nifong began discussing the accuser's medical records even before they were in his possession. Among other things, Nifong made public statements about possible condom use by the alleged rapists, even though the accuser told hospital officials that no condoms were involved, lawyers Joe Cheshire and Brad Bannon wrote in a new court motion. The two attorneys represent indicted rape suspect David Forker Evans, who graduated last month. Nifong...

DURHAM -- The unfolding story of County Commissioner Lewis Cheek's potential write-in challenge to District Attorney Mike Nifong in November took a surreal twist Thursday when Nifong's campaign manager signed up to head up Cheek's bid to take his job. Jackie Brown, who managed Nifong's primary win over two challengers just last month, set up a campaign committee for Cheek that plans a mass mailing to voters to get his name on the ballot. "Women who behave rarely make history. We're getting ready to make history in Durham," said Brown, who claimed no campaign manager has ever won the same...

In these last days, the Bible says it will be a time of mass hybridization and the mixture and corruption of human DNA by fallen angels, also known as "Aliens." The government is and has been, conditioning the existence of aliens through Hollywood, science fiction, cartoons, and other sources. However, they are not telling you the whole truth. These Aliens are not ascended masters, or enlightened ones, or beings from galaxies millions of miles away, nor are they our forefathers or original creators. They are fallen angels who were kicked out of heaven for their rebellion against the headship...