Good points. So the main issue is that LE did not avail themselves of the opportunity to clarify timelines, alibis, etc. Such behavior can only make sense if you have an ironclad case - with video footage, a confession, DNA and impeccable witnesses. Nifong's case is more like a collander!! It is like Custer at the Little Big Horn: Who cares where the Indians are and how many of them are out there!! (Oops, too many metaphors)
Ed Bradley's next piece I hope is going to expose the reasons why Nifong and DPD took this most unusual stance. Another 5 minutes of Prof. Coleman and a summary of the AVs recent activities (with video) should do the trick.
Correct. First, understand that Liefong took over the case before the normal investigation WHICH IS DONE BY POLICE INVESTIGATORS got off the ground. Second, understand that Liefong ran the identifications by directive that was diametrically opposed to established procedure as well as USSC case law. Then understand that after Liefong got the identifications he wanted (any three would do), he refused to hear from the defense lawyers and did not allow the police investigators to conduct the normal interrogations of identified suspects.
Liefong grabbed control of this case to AVOID the normal investigative procedures which would have resulted in no corpus (no crime occurred). In my opinion, he did that to advance this case for his own political fortunes knowing that the black population and far-left whites would sieze on it in their shared hatred of white Duke boys in general and take him over the top in the election in their zeal to "get whitey." The perfect storm of self-interest and no ethics from both Liefong, blacks and far-left whites touched down in Durham, a racially divided town-and-gown city within a state devoid of a system of the checks and balances we expect in the criminal justice system. Their indicting grand jury required for all felonies and not followed by any probable cause proceeding was made to order for the abuses inflicted by the Mike Liefong Nazis of this world.