Agree 100%, but I fear he was elected because he IS unethical. As long as it's a rich, white Dukey boy whose ox is being gored, Nifong is Da Man!
He knows what's on the phone because the cops told him verbally. Whatever is there is helpful to the defense or else he would have requested a written report of the contents, since all such reports are subject to discovery.
Another interesting comment by Nifong...
When the judge asked him something about if the phone was to be used as evidence, his reply was "not the contents of the phone, but the fact that it was found at the house shows she was there and corroborates her statement"... or something to that effect..
How could he possibly say that w/o knowing what was on the phone? If something on the phone helped his case, why would he tell the judge he didn't plan to use it?
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