At Duke Law School the faculty has been buzzing about the case, according to professor James Coleman, who chaired a committee to investigate the lacrosse program.
"You've got a prosecutor playing to race," he says. "It's disgusting. If he's willing to [make race an issue] to go after what he thinks are three white kids with influence, what will he do going against some poor black kid in a case where people are saying, 'You've got to convict somebody?' To me, a prosecutor who's willing to cut corners in any case is a prosecutor who's subverting justice."
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2006
Nifong Knows
"If [Seligmann] wasn't there, he doesn't have to worry about it." - Kim Roberts Mike Nifong
It is difficult to decide whether this comment is frightening, ridiculous or both. Delivered so nonchalantly, this statement from District Attorney Mike Nifong sends shivers regardless of how it is taken. While we all wish there were some veracity to Mr. Nifong's words, it is clear that this statement holds no truth, and is but a thinly veiled, sarcastic threat upon an innocent young man.
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