2 Durham officers charged with assault (Another DukeLax Coverup)

Durham HeraldSun ^ | July 28, 2006 | Ray Gronberg

[JLS]

Nifong misleading the public AGAIN?!

Scum of the earth, isn't he? Is he going to stir up things enough to get Cheek plenty of votes?

[Hogeye13]

Have you ever heard of a smoke screen. That is very likely what Nifong's statement is.

[Hogeye13]

Correct, we don't know. Your red herring is equal to my smoke screen.

[GAgal]

The LieStopper folks have some good bumper sticker ideas. Could we help them by offering others here?

http://www.liestoppers.blogspot.com/

[abb]

"Come Get Some"

Vote Anybody but Nifong.

[Hogeye13]

Thanks Jane. For someone that jenny thinks didn't want to run in the first place, Cheek sure took a long time figuring it out. I could have made the same decision he did before they ever wrote a petition. I think that there was a circumstance that would have caused him to keep his hat in the ring. A compromise was reached that he felt comfortable with and he stepped out. All of this did not require a meeting between the two principal parties.

[jennyd]

Oh give me a break.
It's rather obvious to me Cheek's decision not to run had nothing to do with a special designation for the case.
They last met on March 3rd, before the lacrosse party.
Yet Nifong still tried to blame Cheek for attempting to influence the DA's office.
If Cheek ever brought up anything regarding Duke's case, Nifong probably would have had him arrested.

[Hogeye13]

That is a good one abb.

[jennyd]

What compromise? Is this a joke? Cheek said he would appoint a special prosecutor. Having this case go to trial, just faster, hardly seems like a compromise to me.

[jennyd]

They make a deal, and then Nifong publicly accuses Cheek of influencing DA's office?
As a red herring?
I think bigfoot's theory is more plausible.

[JLS]

Using that logic, Nifong made a secret deal with Cheek,

Yep this part could be true.

and then publicly accused Cheek of trying to influence DA's office.

That's kind of funny, actually.

Yeah apparently Nifong can not help himself. He is either a compulsive liar/miss leader or he learns very very slowly.

I am agnostic about the possibility of a deal. I could see it more of a deal that Cheeks would not run if this embarrassment were in the hands of an out of Durham judge who would rule quickly on the admissibility of the ID, but with no promise on how the judge would rule. I guess Nifong might have promised to dismiss if the IDs were tossed.

[TommyDale]

"They last met on March 3rd, before the lacrosse party."

Gee, I guess they don't ever use email, telephones or courier? Why would they even RISK being seen together, if they had planned this? This was a setup and a deal was made, plain and simple.

[jennyd]

Cheek never even said he would run. I don't think he ever wanted to. He was talked into the petition drive, but he never really agreed to run. And then he decided not to run. I think it's just as simple as that, actually.

[jennyd]

Believe what you want. Like I said, I find bigfoot's theory much more plausible.

[TommyDale]

What is bigfoot's theory? Link?

[JLS]

You are right, Cheek never said he would run, Cheek never wanted to run, but he apparently felt it was necessary that someone collect the signatures to get on the ballot this fall against Nifong. He did but now says he will not campaign.

So we are left with WHY and have at least four to me equally plausible answers:

1. Cheek was in on it with Nifong to keep Monks off the ballot. All along this was a plot to help Nifong.

2. Cheek felt there was a need to run for someone to run against Nifong to stop the damage being done to Durham. But now something has changed and so he has decided not to run. Now the only hint of a change we have gotten is a newspaper report of this deal to take the case out of the Durham case management system.

3. Cheek felt the need for someone to run against Nifong but after collecting the signatures ultimately decided he could not do it.

4. Cheek felt the need for someone to run against Nifong and has decided to do so. Cheek could have just decided that a rope-a-dope strategy is the right one here. By announcing he is not running, the pro-Nifong vote will be complacent but the anti-Nifong vote will still turn out and do what Cheek said he was doing and vote for Cheek. [Whether he would follow through and not accept the post or whether he would reverse his announced decision matters little different in this strategy.]

As for the lie/redherring. I seriously believe Nifong is pathological and can not help himself. So he can not help taking a shot at Cheek will doing what he has been forced into doing.

[abb]

JLS, one other theory is that Cheek sincerely wanted to run, but was "sent a message" from the CourtHouse Crowd that it wouldn't be in his best interests to do so if he wanted to remain healthy...

[jennyd]

I think this theory is much more plausible. He could have been scared into not running.

[TommyDale]

Well, we might agree on this one. This is the other reason he might have been "convinced" to not run. Thr Durham Mafia.

[jennyd]

My theory is-Cheek never really wanted to run, but was talked into it.
He never said he would run. Since he never really wanted to run, he decided not to run in the end.
He could have also been scared into not running, and since he never really wanted to do it in a first place, the easiest way was not to run.
A special designation for the case came about some other way, not through Cheek.