[JLS]

here's a question for you....isn't it part of the DA's job and responsibility to go after cases that he can actually prove or at least has a chance to prove....

shouldn't a good DA take a witness aside and say something like...." Missy, there is no DNA, there are no injuries, you didn't even pick out the guys properly, you didn't say you were raped until much later and you also claimed that the other Whore helped rape you as well.....if I take this to trial, you WILL be crucified on the stand, and I WILL put you on the stand....now, do you still want to go on with this?

Nifong needed votes. He did not care about justice, winning the case or anything else. His only goal was to win his primary. He barely did that.

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"Nifong needed votes. He did not care about justice, winning the case
or anything else. His only goal was to win his primary. He barely did that."

He also had the backing of the courthouse lawyer crowd. They ran a large
ad with hundreds of signed endorsements.

Freda Black took almost three days to concede. The current Election Board
has made big efforts to restore integrity to the local electoral process.....

Viewing this affair as a power struggle to control the couthouse, where 70,000
cases a year flood the hallways, and 35,000 warrants sit unserved at police
headquarters, perhaps the imperative is to suppress the Black/Hardin/Hudson
faction and restore the Nifong/Stephens reign.

All the major players have worked downtown together for over 25 years.