"The brutality of the slayings shook Durham, a community with the highest homicide rate of any large North Carolina city. Seeking to reassure the public, Durham's mayor and police chief said on television that the killings weren't random."
...."the highest homicide rate"
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/444574.html
Can you believe that with all the homicides in Durham, this DA makes it a priority to "lynch" obviously innocent students after a prostitute, with a criminal record, a history of mental instability and drug or alcohol abuse, cries rape. And the people still vote for him?
Today's Herald Sun has an interesting article in which Assistant DA Tracey Cline seems to be caught lying to a judge about Freda Black. Cline also seems to share Nifong's disdain for expensive lawyers, and those who hire them.
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-739559.html
Cline appears to be the Asst. DA most likely to be second chair to Nifong in any lacrosse trial. She's been there before with the previous DA Jim Hardin in a fascinating 2002 case that is frightening in what it reveals about the integrity and competence of those in that office.
Basically, the DA gave immunity to a white man in exchange for his testimony against a black man charged with rape. Only the DNA evidence was from the white man, who the accuser had ID'd as her attacker. The jury found the defendant not guilty and chided the DA. Unfortunately, Mr. Brown spent a year in jail before being vindicated.
(scroll way down to 10.2.02)
http://www.monkeytime.org/archive/October2002.html
That DA, Jim Hardin, is now one of the Superior Court judges who will preside over the Duke case.
....and the expenditure of resources on this bogus case instead of on real cases of violent murder, rape, and assault?