Posted on 04/22/2006 2:45:35 AM PDT by abb
Defense lawyers and legal experts say District Attorney Mike Nifong may have crossed ethical lines in public comments about rape allegations involving Duke University lacrosse players, potentially prejudicing jurors and setting off a media maelstrom.
Nifong says that he has done nothing wrong, though he has ceased talking with reporters about allegations made by an escort service dancer hired to perform at a March 13 team party. He would speak only about his handling of the case Friday.
"In terms of what I said, no, I wouldn't say I regret anything I've said," Nifong said. "I think what I have learned, basically, is that if you cooperate with the media out of a sense of duty to public truth, you make yourself a victim."
Local observers were hard-pressed this week to remember a case with so much back-and-forth between the prosecution and defense playing out in a 24-hour news cycle. It has some suggesting a judge should step in with a gag order.
Defense attorneys for the lacrosse players say it is their clients who have been victimized by Nifong, and they blunt criticism of their own extensive public comments by saying they are just attempting to limit the damage. Some also said photos, ATM receipts and other evidence they claim exonerates the two team members arrested Tuesday were given to the media only after Nifong refused to look at them.
In its ethical rules, the N.C. State Bar orders lawyers to refrain from statements outside the courtroom that they know might have "a substantial likelihood of materially prejudicing" legal proceedings. But once one side talks to the press, ethics rules say the other side can make statements "a reasonable lawyer" would believe are required to protect a client from bad publicity.
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I just turned on FOX....did I miss the interview?
Story hasn't run on fox yet
not surprised....they know everyone is interested in this case....they will probably keep teasing the promo .....
Mitnick up now
Thanks...yes!
That's what the MSM does best... they 'evaporate' when their fingerfood turns into a sh_t sandwich.
But he got it in anyway...
..that the possibility exist that the DNA found on her could have come from a previous ...uh..tryst...even 5 days before!!!!!!!!
You mean??? you mean??? She may be a HO????? Say it aint so!!!!!
I hate when this happens....the media just cuts and runs and leaves the real victims....the 46 LaCrosse players...with ruined reputations and little job prospect!
Maybe...maybe not....but she has a boyfriend...Hello!
Ping to 38, etc.
So how's Kimberly Guilfoyle going to spin her way out of this?
Nifong is a Democrat. Democrats have no ethics when it comes to racial racketeering and limp ones in all other matters.
Drive-by news-whores.
definitely a smelly,fat,skanky HO who could have had sex with clients at a prior dance assignment before the DLAX dance episode;it has happened before, that would account for the recent sexual activity and whose to say it wasn't a ROUGH SEX appt.
Maybe we need to form anti-lynching societies, just as blacks did when so many lynchings of blacks occurred, to defend at least potentially innocent whites. With the likes of certified malicious liar Al Sharpton and hypocrit adulterer not-for-profit mistress condo mogul Jesse Jackson around, whites may need some organizationto step in against the bigots across the aisle.
Tawana Brawley syndrome strikes again.
When this runaway train shudders to a halt, look for lots of columns from Coulter, WaTimes, Rush, Sean, etc. about how the Drive-by media overreached once again...
This is going to be so much fun...
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