[CondorFlight]

"His role is to both oversee a fair trial and convince the public that it was a fair "trial."

Maybe his role is just to protect the corrupt oligarchy which has been looting Durham for years.

Maybe these guys have been operating in their tiny corner of the world for so long that they can't really understand that a giant spotlight has just been turned on.

[JLS]

Maybe his role is just to protect the corrupt oligarchy which has been looting Durham for years.

I don't really care nearly as much about Durham as many others here. I am willing to bet that many around NC agree with me.

I am willing to bet that most in NC and in the NC government do not want the public's faith in the criminal justice system undermined. The rest of NC don't care about the Durham crowd. To the extent they are in their own local court house crowd, they don't want Nifong's misbehavior to cause them to be looked at more closely.

Judge Smith is not from Durham. Judge Smith is from Caswell County which seems to me is more Greensboro than Durham county oriented in terms of the city they go shop in ect. But Judge Smith seems to have missed that he got this case because it was deemed exceptional. He might have been curious as to what made it exceptional. But instead he acts like another stupid judge that thinks he is god.