[abb]

Nifong is losing one of his hard-core supporters, the N & O

[abb]

Pinging the DukeLax list. New thread...

[Alia]

I dug through some of the onset threads: There's much more that Nifong asserted/alluded to, directed, required, requested than what is contained in this article.

[SmoothTalker]

Some very good reporting from the local paper. I'm glad to see that they have fully come around on this issue. When this case first hit all Nifong saw was the chance to lock up the huge black vote in Durham indefinitely (or at least till a strong black candidate took it). The whole case is nothing but an example of a prosecutor without strong morals in an election year.

[Locomotive Breath]

Dan Abrams has his work cut out for him...

It's 'Putdown With Keith Olbermann'

Now that Dan Abrams has given up his MSNBC show to run the third-place cable news outlet, he might want to focus on the rising tensions between two of his prime-time personalities: Keith Olbermann and Rita Cosby.

Olbermann, whose "Countdown With Keith Olbermann" airs weeknights at 8, apparently has precious little respect for Cosby, whose "Rita Cosby: Live & Direct" airs at 10 p.m.

"Rita's nice," Olbermann wrote to a fan from his MSNBC E-mail account, "but dumber than a suitcase of rocks." Yesterday Cosby retorted: "Keith got it wrong. I'm not that nice."

[OldFriend]

From what we have learned from reading about this case, it is clear that NC needs a huge overhaul in it's system of Justice.

[zaxxon]

Wow, The News&Observer ran this story. Like I said before, Liefong is fast approaching a nervous breakdown (at least).

Thanks for the post, abb.

[Fido969]

Can you imagine if Fitz investigated Nifong like he investigated Karl Rove?

[george wythe]

Nifong said the assailants might have used condoms; the accuser told an emergency-room nurse none were used, according to a defense filing. Nifong described a violent attack in which the accuser was choked and struggled to breathe; the accuser told a nurse she wasn't choked, the filing said.

The catalog of lies is much longer than that.

Lies, damned lies and more damned lies.

It's hard to support the law-and-order branch of government when so many fibs and fabrications are being served by the prosecutors.

[Fido969]

This is a very good article. Excellent facts, analysis and conclusions.

It is so good that I think the reporter did his research by reading the FR threads on this topic.

[Law is not justice but process]

"This is the kind of stuff that causes the public to lose confidence in the justice system."

I was talking with some of my fellow prosecutors about this case the other day. We were all pretty much unanimous that the case is utter B.S., but also unanimous in our anger at Nifong. He is making it very hard on all prosecutors by whipping this long-dead horse. It is getting to the point where our potential jurors can be heard talking over the case in the hallway before jury selection.

He may have a good case (though I doubt it). However, all the media attention will prevent either the defendant or the alleged victim could ever get a fair trial. Everyone I have talked to has drawn a conclusion about the case, and I am not even in North Carolina (though I am close by). This has become a media circus and there is only one basic reason it has become so: Nifong and his 70 interviews. Now we hear he gilded the lilly (or acted on bad information, or lied, your choice) in those interviews. Gee, What a paragon of bad prosecution he has been!

Thousands of prosecutors across the nation do their job well and as effectively as we are allowed to do it under our judicial system. Yet all we hear is Nifong, Nifong, Nifong. As Shakespeare's Marc Antony said "the evil that men do lives after them, but the good is oft interred with their bones." That may be so, but Nifong is making all members of his profession pay for his evil.

I wish he would just dismiss the case and resign.

[Locomotive Breath]

We've batted around whether Duke students can vote in the November elections. Here is some definitive info.

All About Voting: What Duke Students Need to Know

Hat tip: John in Carolina

With his post: I'm supporting Louis Cheek for Durham District Attorney