The current DA up there is Martha Coakley. She was involved in the Fells Acres case and the Nanny Case. I think she is running for AG, isn't she? Does she have any opposition?
From John in North Carolina blog:
Friday, October 13, 2006
60 Minutes: Six sure bets
You won’t be wrong if you make the following bets about this Sunday’s 60 Minutes Duke Hoax episode with Ed Bradley:
1) Kim Roberts, the “second dancer,” will contradict key elements of the accuser’s stories. You can be sure about that because 60’s already told us that at its website and in press releases.
2) Roberts’ statements, while important, aren’t the “big news” in 60's episode. Sixty believes it has much more important news to tell viewers.
If 60 thought Roberts’s statements were the most important news, 60 wouldn’t have disclosed them yesterday and sent out thousands of emails to MSM journalists, bloggers and others saying, “Hey, look at what Kim Roberts is going to tell Ed Bradley Sunday night.”
CBS’s 60 won't deliberately give away its “big news” the Thursday before an episode. You get a reputation for doing that and folks will ask, “Why watch? Don't they always tell you Thursday?
Another reason “Kim’s story” won’t be the “big news:” 60 Minutes knows Kim Roberts’ is a serial fabricator. It’s not going to hang its story on her words. (For a nice appreciation and detailing of Roberts’ creative "talents," see this Johnsville News post.)
3) The big news will come first, when the three indicted players – David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann - tell their stories and 60 says that while it couldn’t fact check everything the players said, everything it did fact check supported what the players say; and second, when 60 exposes DA Nifong, Sgt. Gottlieb and others who’ve framed the players and some other people and organizations who in various ways enabled the frame-up and continue to sustain it. --cut--
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The Nanny Case was different, but you are right she was involved. She is not running unopposed but in this overwhelmingly Democratic, knee jerk state it would need a miracle for her not to win. Dorothy Rabinowitz from the WSJ really fought long and hard for the Amiraults in the Fells Acre Day Care case. Unfortunately she appears to be largely retired and is no longer a voice for sanity and reasonableness among investigative journalists.
What is interesting in all this is the notion of hysteria in crowds and the ability and willingness of certain individuals to manipulate the proclivity for groupthink. The Salem Witch trials are a great example - with 3 Sovereigns for Sarah being a great adaptation. Fortunately the efforts of the blogs and FR have helped prevent a gross miscarriage of justice.