Back to the payoff idea; is there any thought that Nifong is still pursuing this case--in order to increase the size of a later payoff demand?
If you had a son headed for the NC big house, what would you pay to keep him out? The more desperate you get--as the case seems to swing more and more in Nifong's favor during the trial--how long would it be before you would crack and listen to an offer?
And maybe the rot (and the payoff) runs all the way up to the governor's office? (In Louisiana one man is said to have paid $200,000 for a pardon. How much can the parents of the Duke three pay?)
If Durham is worse than LA, isn't that a possibility?
And remember the earlier 2002 rape case, in which the white defendant got immunity for accusing a black man. Why did Hardin-Nifong accept that deal? Did they suddenly out of thin air just want to help the white man escape the rape charge? Or was there a payoff?
I'm asking questions, I don't know. But so many strange things happen in this case that I'm looking for an answer.
Nifong didn't strike me as the shakedown type - well, for glory maybe, but not money - but you could be onto something. I don't rule anything out anymore. But it just doesn't seem like he would pull this with out-of-towners. It doesn't "feel" right to me.
Or maybe, as Greta has wondered, Nifong is either insane or evil.
With Abrams Report dumped, it seems like cable news has lost interest in this case.