Yes, spending too much time on one case!
Noise violations, underage drinking charges against 20 year olds.
And I suspect Nifong spent some of his time speaking with the District Attorney from DC (Georgetown).
And look at the parallels - DC and Durham are on-fire with Crime and both are overwhelming black - with White DA's - and they pursue minor cases and spend an inordinant amount of time on the prosecution of certain individuals.
D.C. Declared a CRIME-Emergency due to the legal/L.E. system being overwhelmed - a day or two after the two day trial for shadowing boxing.
Another Parallel - The Media threw their support behind both of these DA's. The Media is partly responsible. The DA's get positive press and accolades by pursuing these Duke guys and pandering to their constituents.
Does anyone thing for a second that these guys are doing it to see that Justice is done? These guys are easy targets.
Why did Nifong decide to take this on personally? The only such case. And why did he say the other case he would have handled personally was the cross burning case in Durham?
Because he wants to seize on the opportunity and be the hero of the people and the press!
Of course, some dogged work by the Defense lawyers have made the road rougher than Nifong had anticipated.
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Or he thought they were easy targets. Nifong did not expect national exposure. He and his staff are under a microscope now. In fact the entirety of Durham city operations is now on trial. The fractures will soon become evident to all. There have to be many in Durham who are quite unnapreciative of the exposure brought by Nifong.
IIRC, the judge made a big spectacle of herself in that case.
You can say it's just Nifong, but the whole justice system is rotten with this stuff.