Posted on 05/11/2006 6:19:27 AM PDT by rwilson99
The ATM short changed someone $20 3 years ago and will soon be arrested if it doesn't erase the video.
He should sue the bastids.
Sure it does.It is called witness intimidation. If they could have got the cbbie to recant on just one aspect of the story, any aspect, they get his testimony tossed and can say the defence witness lied or changed his story. Prosecutors, especialy this on, sometimes are as bad as the crooks that roam our streets, facts be damned.
Suborning perjury from a potential witness? I wonder what Betty Currie thinks about that?
Exactly. He should hire a sleezeball attorney himself and counter sue.
So somebody please tell me why this lawyer does not have a bar complaint against him?
Prosecutors have a seperate section of the ethics rules devoted to prosecutors.
Why did you feel it necessary to amend the headline to state
that the cabby is black? What does that have to do with anything? If your point is that the DA is trying to intimidate a witness are you saying that he would not have done so if the guy were white?
This is so outrageous that I can't even believe it. I'm speechless.
I am now stisfied that even if this corrupt DA can get a corrupt jury to convict on his manufactured case, any verdict should be immediately overturned on appeal, because this prosecutorial misconduct is just egregious at this point.
evidence gets lost.
video tapes get erased.
It is amazing how prosecutors have a win at ALL costs attitude.
Seriously, to know how prosecutors work is to be very scared. Prosecutors are like police today, the good ones are the exception not the rule.
the prosecution will argue that Seligmann could have given someone else the password for his ATM card and that the video is so blurry that someone of Seligmann's general description could have passed for him.
Eyewitness testimony by the cabbie gives extra weight to the ATM timestamp and video evidence.
Obstructing "justice" is a worse crime!
But the time stamp at the ATM and the video at the dorm tell their own story, i.e., when he was gone and when he got back.
Add to that a cab driver that first says he drove the kid, then recants.
It seems to me any lawyer could easily turn those facts into not only an alibi, but also pretty damning evidence of witness tampering.
All together it's hard to believe that the DA could be stupid enough to orchestrate such an attempt.
NiFong is beginning to make New Orleans seem law abiding.
Jail the witness instead?
I pointed out that the cabby is black to point out the irony of the situation.
In order to get 40% of the Democrat vote in Durham to keep his job, Nifong obviously pandered to African-Americans.
Now that the job is firmly in place... he turns his pattern of prosecutorial misconduct turns to a person of color.
That's Irony.
Nifong made such a big deal about protecting the City of Durham's reputation when he started this whole mess, but he and the local police are making Durham look like a cesspool of corruption. The old stereotypical Southern town where the good old boys (some of whom are now black) lean on everybody in a bid to railroad some hapless person off to prison.
I believe the term prosecutorial misconduct is becoming the operative phrase.
I would love to see the RINO attorney general of the US step in and investigate these smarmy Dims...
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