What will it take to Dis-bar Nifong for judicial misconduct?
Q: What will it take to Dis-bar Nifong for judicial misconduct?
A: Nifong (See Court TV thread at http://boards.courttv.com/showthread.php?s=337fd28bd2897d80486b3fe967914d1c&threadid=265413)
Yesterday, Boardom, saddleburr and others joined together to savor some of Nifong's legendary proclaimations.
Please add any more that you've got. Perhaps later we can create a vocab list or cheat sheet of Nifongese so we can decifer future comments.
"I still think that the racial slurs that were involved are relevant to show the mind-set, I guess, that was involved in this particular attack, and obviously, to make what is already an extremely reprehensible attack even more reprehensible." - Mike Nifong
"I'm trying to be as honest and as straightforward as I can without jeopardizing the case, without being unfair to any person," - MN
"I would not be surprised if condoms were used," he said.
He said he could jeopardize the case by rushing forward with incomplete evidence. "I don't want to arrest the wrong person in any case," Nifong said.
"By next week, we'll know precisely who was involved." - MN
"I'm confident a sexual assault took place in that house," Nifong said, echoing a statement he made earlier on in the investigation. "If I didn't believe her, then I would not be basing any of my decisions on what she said."
Last month, defense attorneys publicly stated that DNA samples taken from 46 Duke lacrosse athletes cleared the players, but Nifong hinted on Wednesday that there may be more to
the DNA tests than defense attorneys are sharing.
"My guess is that there are many questions that many people are asking that they would not be asking if they saw the results," Nifong said. WRAL has asked defense attorneys to share information on the DNA results, but they have declined the request. Nifong cannot release the DNA results because doing so would be against state policy, he said.
"They're not things that the defense releases unless they unquestionably support their positions," Nifong said. "So, the fact that they're making statements about what the reports are saying, and not actually showing the reports, should in and of itself raise some red flags."- MF
"The reason that I took this case is because this case says something about Durham that I'm not going to let be said," Nifong said. "I'm not going to let Durham's view in the minds of the world to be a bunch of lacrosse players from Duke raping a black girl in Durham."- MF
"I've told everybody who has asked me that I do believe a sexual assault occurred," he said. "I haven't pointed a finger at anybody. It is possible -- I don't expect this -- it's possible that the DNA could come back, and we would see that it was someone who didn't match the profile of the lacrosse players."- MF
"It doesn't mean nothing happened," Nifong said at a public forum at North Carolina Central University, where the 27-year-old alleged victim is a student. "It just means nothing was left behind."- MF
"In terms of what I said, no, I wouldn't say I regret anything I've said," - Mike Nifong