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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.

I think some are judging him prematurely, and my guess is that he's well aware of why this case has been deemed "exceptional". Again, there is nothing unusual about a judge banning cameras, especially older judges. Frankly, if I was a judge, I wouldn't want them in my courtroom, either. I just think he should have given more weight to the suspicions surrounding the application of the process in this case. But if he's a stubborn old coot like a lot of judges, that doesn't matter much to him and he believes he's going to remedy that in his own way and run his courtroom the way he wants to and is used to doing, or figures it's up to the electorate to straighten matters out by electing better people, and to that extent he would be right.