As we've remarked so often, the main part of his case is to get Mangum and Pittman/Roberts to point at the defendants and say "they called us n*gg*rs". The (lack of) the rest of the evidence won't matter and Nifong thinks, by making it all about race, a Durham jury will convict. He may be right.
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Therein lies the case! I think Nifong's plan was to focus on those slurs and repeat statements by the AV and Kim that showed they were treated as "less than human". And then he would bring out everything on their Computers - ala Scott Peterson. Every e-mail ever written with something negative towards women (they are 19) or minorities and/or sites they have visited will be used to pillory them.
That's why the Durham City Council/DPD/Nifong has to find Gottlieb and Clayton weren't involved or that the cook is lying - because those charges will give the Defense a club to beat back the only thing Nifong has - emotional racial issues.