Nifong could skate but he is the one that directed the controversial lineups, etc.
http://www.wral.com/news/9139366/detail.html
"Nifong could skate but he is the one that directed the controversial lineups"
Ah, but that's a "he-said she-said" question.
And who are you going to believe? We already know that Gottlieb can manufacture "facts" when it suits him.
So who is to say he didn't "manufacture" the claim that
it was Nifong who directed him to conduct the line-ups a certain way?
Nifong will go before a presser and be revealed as a victim of a corrupt police investigation. . .
Another good point by Maggief.
And his level of involvement can be attested to by the young rookies notes. Himan recorded in his notes that Nifong directed the Police to arrest the Cabbie. He also annotated that Nifong wanted to be alerted when the Cabbie was in Police Custody.
The Cabbie is a minor bit player - yet look at the attention he garners from Nifong. It would hard for Nifong to distance himself from this case with this knowledge in the hands of defense attorneys.
He may have been thinking along the lines you mentioned Condorflight - he had an ADA sign off on the NTO application to the court for DNA, etc.
Which seems inconsistent with his other involvement in this case.
He may have reassured himself that he wasn't culpable for anything ... He did use the open letter to Susan Meadows/Newsweek to say that he didn't criticize the players or make public statements until AFTER they were indicted. That was another false statement - and "his reading" of the applicable laws in that area are as flawed as his ficticious reading of the medical records.
So, it looks like he was trying to defend some of his vunerabilities - and liabilities.
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