Mike, meet your cellmates. Y'all gonna get along just fine.
Posted on 10/07/2006 3:47:57 AM PDT by abb
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Pretty good article, fair and gives a good overview and also some details particular to NC. However, I hate when people use the word "sanctioned" and I can't tell if it means "permitted" or "criticized". Such a strange word!
In this case you could read it as: "Vigorous defense of a defendant is never punished."
Well, with a little luck he'll be in private practice by then.
Or maybe a private cell.
NandO's editors gutshot by Joan Foster this morning...
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/index.php?title=march_25_interview&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments
10/07/06 at 07:11
" Speculation, premature conclusions, white-hot political rhetoric, amateur psychoanalysis -- all are prevalent these days in Washington."
Hey, Editorial page, that was Spring in Durham too. And one of your Editors was fiddling with the story to make it "cleaner."
By Ms. Williams moral standards, if the Foley page told her Bush was in the room with Foley when they were instant messaging each other..why , golly, she'd never print THAT. Unsubstantiated? Right , Linda? Right?
In time we'll know who authorised the "vigilante poster" "without the discussion we should have had." Helping hands again.
Maybe there's more.
Every blogger on this page, every concerned parent will get the story out. By God, we will.
It's terribly sad for those of us who truly wore ourselves out for equality and justice years ago..to see our daughters display the same hateful bias in reverse.
Your readers will learn you did this. You can fold your hands and wait for trial. And personally, I'll do a little fund-raising then...for a billboard contrasting what we learn at trial with what YOU told us...and what you HID from your readers.
Mike, meet your cellmates. Y'all gonna get along just fine.
I wonder how much coverage this race is getting in Durham (minus the Duke case) i.e., signage, rallies, events attended by Nifong to help his campaign, etc.
His website is pushing ahead to the November election.
Here's a letter to supporters.
http://mikenifong.com/nov7support.php
I was wondering whether the rally for Nifong was held on October 1 as mentioned on the site. It was held and here are the pictures from that rally.
Yeah, I'll just bet they do. Especially the people who have been indicted after a five minute presentation to a grand jury.
Does it never occur to any of these people that there is one thing he could have done: waited?
He could have TALKED to her; he could have TALKED to them.
They must have updated the pictures. From Liestoppers October 4:
http://liestoppers.blogspot.com/2006/10/durham-da-race-updates.html
[snip]
Examination of the directory, http://mikenifong.com/kickoff/, linked at WTVD appears to confirm the observations that the all of the photos shown by DA Nifong on his campaign website were indeed taken months ago and not this past weekend as his site suggests.
What the heck is that about?
[snip]
For the record, fifteen members of the [lacrosse] team have received citations over the last four years--thirteen for holding an open beer can in public. This is not something to be proud of or dismissed. But it does need to be put into perspective and measured against the total number of Duke students who have been cited for alcohol violations, especially now that we know that the DPD has adopted an official policy to target and arrest Duke students.
[snip]
It is also interesting to examine the statistics for students charged with academic dishonesty. Over the past four academic years, 180 students were charged with academic dishonesty. Ninety-one were charged with plagiarism, seventy-four were charged with cheating, and fifteen were charged with lying. As far as I know, not one lacrosse player was charged with academic dishonesty. While there were some athletes cited, the statistics show that the overwhelming majority--86 percent--were non-athletes. Moreover, 34 of the adjudicated students were from Pratt, the school's engineering school. Does Brodhead think that engineering students at Duke are guilty of a pattern of irresponsible behavior? Shouldn't academic dishonesty be viewed with more alarm than holding an open beer can?
If you look at the mid-section where it says "Let's keep Mike Nifong District Attorney - 14th Prosecutorial District" at http://mikenifong.com/ you will see the words Photos, More Photos, and October Rally; the photos I linked were from the October Rally link.
I do believe the photos are new, however, I don't remember reading any coverage of the rally in the news or seeing it mentioned on TV.
From the article:
And he does dismiss cases; his office last year dropped 44 percent of all felony charges it filed, before they went to trial.
Almost half of all felony charges were dropped last year before they went to trial. Wow! Now I'm assuming a large portion of these dropped charges were due to plea deals, but still, 44 percent of all felony charges were dropped before they went to trial!
Do we dare hope this will happen in the Duke case (minus a plea deal, of course)?
Linda Williams, the editor on duty the weekend of the March 24 story, decided that certain information CGM opined about Kirm Roberts wasn't pertinent to their story. Because, they said, "it didn't concur with the police report."
Oh, so they did the same thing that the NCCU student newspaper did, right?
Is Linda Williams black?
The entire blog string is a good read. The answer to your question is yes.
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/editor/index.php?title=march_25_interview&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1#comments
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