The whole sorry lot of them should be sued, including Nifong, DPD, Duke, Brodhead. There needs to be accountability when all is said and done. ANd yes, they can be held legally accountable. Prosecutors have wide immunity but not from making knowingly false public statements, and Brodhead has been sued before for precisely this kind of miscondut. I still shake my head in disbelief that Duke hired him after knowing his track record at Yale for ruthlessly and wrongly throwing people under the bus based upon lies.
The first lesson I learned when I got involved in local politics (against a very liberal establishment) is that you have to be willing to inflict more pain than you can accept. In this instance, pain is defined as putting these clowns under oath, forcing to tell what happened, and publicly exposing them.
I told you before and I'll say it again: these families are MAJOR players; they will not stand for this being brushed under the rug on a technicality like her not testifying.
They are some VERY powerful people and they have VERY powerful friends; these are the kind of people who sweep into two in a new administartion; they hang out with Ben and Sally Bradlee; they ARE going to prove their sons innocent beyond any doubt. IMO, of course.
Where is Elliot Ness when you need him? Remember this exchange?