I don't think you're allowed to lie to the court (judge) with impunity. Nifong has done that twice: 1) he told the first judge ordering team DNAing "will immediately rule out innocent persons". Except that it didn't. 2) he lied to Stephens about turning over everything and about his lack of knowledge about the cell phone.
That is the nut of hte "Nifong lied" issue. At this point, we know Nifong was lying like nobody's business to the press in the early phases, and at best he was dissembling. Lying to the Court is another thing entirely. These defense attorneys are pretty sharp, and this may come up in Seligman's motion to recuse Nifong, as in :Judge, he not only dissembles and decives the public, he has engaged in a scheme or artifice to defraud the court," and then laundry list his prevarications.
And most galling of all, dingbat Brodhead and Duke University crawled into bed with Nifong and his crew, abandoning 46 of their own students
One thing I am certain of: there will be more facts coming out that will show even more decisively that this whole thing was a "crock." There are strong rumors that Finnerty's alibi is far more powerful than Seligmans. And Finnerty's lawyers are just waiting for the dingbat DA to commit to a timeline before dropping that bomb.
I have a friend that is following this case closely also.
He told me that he heard Alan Colmes on the Radio (must have been yesterday or tonight) and Colmes said that if you thought this case was bad, it just got much worse.
He thought that maybe Colmes had finally saw the light and then after the commercial break, Colmes said that if you thought the accuser was getting trashed before, it really gotten disgusting. He said he went into how distasteful it was to have a young African American victim being treated like this. He said this case illustrates how minorities get revictimized in our justice system.
What would it take for this guy to figure this out?