That sure sounds like there was DNA...besides they couldn't retest something that wasn't found.
"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.
He finally tells the truth! If people had seen the results they would not have been questioning the boy's innocence.
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.
We all know Nifong would never do anything unethical...like 70 press conferences calling the boys names and promising indictments before he had any evidence.
"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."
This is nothing but spin on his part. He almost sounds like he wanted the defense would put the DNA report out, since it would show undetermined DNA. That way, he could say the investigation was ongoing. When the defense didn't help him, being the "ethical" DA that he is, he remembered his pledge to get indictments so he sent out for retesting, indicted the players, won the primaries and then tested the unknown persons.
Shortly after Nifong received the DNA test results from the State Bureau of Investigation, he ordered a second set of more sophisticated tests at a private laboratory because the SBI crime lab is not certified to perform them. Nifong said on Wednesday that the tests were ordered because the SBI suggested them.
My guess is that the SBI isn't certified to "make a mountain out of a molehill". Either that, or Nifong is passing the buck.
There was another line-up we weren't told about:
http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/443889.html
And apparently there was no transcript or recording provided to the defense.