Gretta had a segment on the hearing today. Ted was on the panel. I think Feiger was also. There were two other attorneys who I did not recognize and since I am working tonight did not have time to write down their names.
1. The guest attorneys generally agreed that the request for the DNA information was tweaking Nifong. Only one seemed to understand that the defense might want to know who else Mangum had sexual DNA on her that day since she likely lied to Nifong about it for weeks about having had sex with anyone around that time and this can be used at trial to attack her credibility. [As an aside, is Nifong possibly the only one in the room not to figure out Mangum is a hooker?]
2. One who I did not know openned by responding to Gretta's question that yes he was, as an ex-prosecutor and current defense attorney, very concerned that Nifong was taking so long to get the discovery out and have the trial. Ted chimed in with his theory that the defense is making a mistake putting out their information which he claims gives Nifong an advantage. Ted is clueless that the defense may have only given out SOME of their evidence.
3. Ted takes up the rest of the segment by chiming in that the defense with their push polling is being unethical. He does not even mention the polling but starts ranting aobut unethical defense attorneys and Gretta has to go back and explain what he is bathering on about to the viewers. Everyone else on the panel laughs at him pointing out over and over and over that the cure is to not let Mrs. Nifong or anyone else polled on the jury. This goes round and round and round with Ted claiming outrage and everyone else repeating why he is wrong, asking what ethical cannon this violates, asking can they not have mock trials either, saying the DA can poll too, etc. This basically wasted the second half of the segment.