"In the course of a case, the assistant district attorney and district attorney just don't talk to defendants. They just don't." Clark said. "Not in this case, not in any case."
Nifong's admin claiming strongly that DA's don't speak to defendants.
http://www.dukechronicle.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticle&ustory_id=cb89004b-848b-4c96-bff9-84579bf63003
There is some minor truth to that, but strictly at the investigative stage. If a suspect comes forward and wants to talk to a DA at anytime, any DA or DDA would be an idiot not to take advantage of that, but conversations between a prosecutor are much more likely to occur during the plea stage, after charges have been filed or are about to be filed, and usually with counsel if it's a felony. If it's a crime involving people up the ladder who haven't been caught yet, suspects may offer to give somebody up before they're even charged in order to hide the fact that they were the person who ratted out the big guy. They have to cut that deal with the DDA handling the case. But in the usual Beavis and Butthead type crimes, the prosecutor doesn't have much contact with a defendant until post time unless, again, the suspect seeks out the prosecutor, which is what happened in the Duke case. It's a ridiculous lie for Liefong's little administrative assistant that he sent out to talk for him to blanketly assert that defendants never talk to prosecutors.
The cops are an altogether different matter though, as has been previously explained on here. It's bizarre that these boys were not interviewed after the identifications were made, unless we understand that Liefong simply wanted to press ahead with the case and had good reason to know that no crime had been committed. Avoiding review of exculpatory evidence was the only way he could go forward with the case.