Let us not forget that Nifong is a Democrat. And when those boys and girls play the race card, they will do anything to advance their own political interests. No matter if it is convicting three innocent white man of a crime that did not happen or trying to get a guilty black man a pardon from a crime that he did commit.
If this goes to trial in that jurisdiction, they probably will be convicted. The prosecution will play the race card and win.
My sentiments exactly. Here's "60 Minutes" playing Masters of the Obvious about a case that most right-thinking folks who followed events at all had already dismissed as bogus. I suppose they want a Pulitzer for this. They tried to turn this incident into a crusade against "prosecutorial abuse", when in fact it was just what you pointed out: a race-baiting Democrat being a race-baiting Democrat.
"60 Minutes" thought they'd draw a wider audience of moderates and conservatives (and they may have) by running this story. Personally I think they may have run this story to draw a wider audience for their "Bushies are dissing the Evangelicals" in-kind contribution to the DNC.
Fifty years ago, Democrat DAs in the Solid South did the exact same thing to blacks to advance their political interests. Democrat politicians have always relied on the race card and have shown that can easily deal from either side of the deck and to hell with justice.