I watched the hearing on CourtTV, very unimpressed with this judge.
At least one of the lawyers stood up to complain that Nifong basically accused the defense lawyers of giving bad advice to their uncooperative, indicted and unindicted players.
I can see why Nifong might want potential witness out of state addresses, but it seemed out of line to supoena the unindicted students' swipe cards. Nifong said he might call these unindicted students as witnesses and he wanted their cards to verify they were truthful.
It is crystal clear (pardon the pun) to me that Nifong is fishing for any evidence he can dig up now, because he has none that can win the case. The only caveat is that this case MUST be moved to another county, where the "privileged white boys" can get a fair trial by a jury of their peers. They currently have no peers in Durham County.
Truthful.......... Nifong is worried about these kids being truthful? One of the lawyers today mentioned his client cooperated with the police and volunteered to take a lie detector test. I would have died laughing if he asked Nifong if Magnum has volunteered to take a lie detector.