Nifong to give up more documents to defense (DukeLax)

Durham Herald-Sun ^ | October 27, 2006 | John Stevenson

[JLS]

While I agree that a December dismissal is logical, keep in mind a summer dismissal was possibly even more logical:

1. It would have preempted the Cheek and Monks petition drives and would have assured Nifong of winning.

2. It would have minimized Evans', Finnerty's and Seligmann's damage claims in any future tort action.

So is Nifong such a hard leftist that he is going to bring any claim of rape to trial? Or does he know he has committed a crime and is going to jail? Neither the state nor the federal government are going to investigate this while the trial is on going. So perhaps Nifong is stringing this along to forestall investigations of him?

[Carling]

Nifong's JOB is to find the TRUTH

LIEfong knows the truth. There is no way he can believe this lying slut. He just doesn't care about it because he is obsessed with power and with winning this election.

[Mad-Margaret]

I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think Nifong will be investigated. At least not for the lacrosse case. Yep! The whole thing stinks and charges never should have been brought. But we all know why Nifong did this. And who knows? Maybe four years from now -- is that the length of a DA's term? -- the black community will run and elect a black candidate.

That would be poetic justice!

There wasn't enough time to orchestrate all of this by the end of the summer.

Another question: Videos of Crystal's pole dancing have existed for months. Why have they been released only now? The road is being paved for the dismissal of the case.

[JLS]

Let's see:

1. I did notice the shock of an ex-federal prosecutor that Nifong has not interviewed Mangum. I think the powers that be in the NC and among the feds may be giving the electorate of Durham a chance to make this right. At some point Nifong is doing more damage to other prosecutors than investigating him would do. I think he is past that and they will investigate and sanction him, if the voters do not solve this problem for them.

2. Nifong is OLD. He may well not run again. This was his shot. He did not want to be appointed and then not win in his own right.

3. I disagree on not having enough time. All it took was Nifong dropping the charges. Now maybe the "mark" had not been cooled enough and there were serious worries about riots had this been dropped this summer. And maybe that is what you meant by not enough time?

4. The defense had the video. My guess is they kept it close to the vest as an exclusive for 60 Minutes. That gave 60 Minutes something new to break and thus an incentive to do this story. [BTW, I wonder if 60 Minutes might have told or shown Roberts the entire video of the party to see if she wanted to stick to her original story. Certainly her knowing or having seen a video of the party would give her a strong incentive to stick to the truth shaded of course to not make herself look bad.]

[Mad-Margaret]

1. Oh, the problems are over if Durham elects well... the unknown "Cheeks" candidate. But with Monks acting as a spoiler, it's a pretty safe bet that Nifong will be elected. And I think the fix was in months ago when Cheeks announced that he would not run even though enough petitions were collected to get his name on the ballot. (Don't forget; these are Democrats....)

2. He's only in his late 50s. He'll never be appointed a judge though after this mess.

3. Yep. That's what I meant. The mark wasn't sufficiently cooled in the summer.

4. 60 minutes didn't get that tape from the defense. But I suspect the defense has other videos of Crystal. (and one can only imagine what those videos show...) Apparently, she's been dancing publicly for months. Why release it now?

5. Kim was delighted to tell 60 Minutes whatever it wanted to here. And she did it without any fear of her sweetheart deal with the prosecution going south. Kim looked the best she ever looked! That was one happy camper!

[JLS]

Well:

1. By his college graduation date, 1971, I would guess he was born about 1949 or 1950. That would make him 56 or 57 and in his 60s in 4 years. That is a few years younger than I thought. Still I suspect it was most important to Nifong that he not be appointed and then defeated with never winning election.

2. I do agree that there may well be some back room deals. Clearly the move to Judge Smith was accompanied by a deal of no change in the Nifong schedule. It well could be that everyone is just marking time until the election. Heck if that is the case, it could even go away while the Duke students are mostly away for Thanksgiving.

3. No matter where CBS got the tape, the defense was smart to hold theirs to give CBS/60 Minutes something to break in their segment.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

PRECIOUS DANCING ALERT!!!!

http://forums.go.com/abclocal/WTVD/thread?threadID=135779

".....I got there at 12:50 and who do i see ON THE POLE . . . once again .. the traumatized H.0ochie Precious is still at it......"

You must go read the salacious details. (And they are salacious)

This poster has been saying for a long time she's been dancing. I believe the details. He has a 100% track record.

[SarahUSC]

Blech. But hey, at this point none of it surprises me. And with all of this going on Nifong is in court saying how traumatized ol' Precious is. He's just not at the stage where he can ask her about what happened due to her delicate sensibilities. Yeah, right.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

Maybe he should ask her in Spanish...
(ouch,that was a bad one!)

[maggief]

..... the tape of her dancing "2 weeks" after March 13th is not the zinger .... its the video tape the defense has of her dancing 4 or 5 DAYS after March 13th thats gonna be the bombshell


Holy cow!

[bjc]

But don't you know, the poor woman had to earn a living to support her chldren while taking all those classes!!

[SarahUSC]

Holy cow is right - 4 or 5 days? Incredible.

You know, there was a time when I would have thought Niofng would have had more control over her but now I see he was just thinking about indictments and winning the primary. I don't think he was even considering a trial at that point. He was just interested in getting three names he could put on indictments.

[nopardons]

bttt

[Ken H]

Two good pieces by TJN:

http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2006/10/duke-case-hoax-busting-video.html

http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2006/10/duke-case-outrage.html

-- Which had this tidbit from Tony Soprano: "Joe Cheshire just told local reporters that information on the accuser will be coming out soon and did not elaborate further."

[Ken H]

Humor alert. You just might be obsessed with this case:

http://johnsville.blogspot.com/2006/10/duke-case-obsession.html

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

LOL! Wonder if Cheshire mean the abc board?

[JLS]

Mangum dancing while Gottlie is claiming she is in great pain is evidence. Mangum dancing now is not particularly germane though possibly interesting to some.

[Repub4bush]

Wonder how it would look if 2 middle age women went strutting up in Platinum?....Howlin I will be home in 2 weeks wanna go? LOL

[Ken H]

http://kitchencabinet.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_kitchencabinet_archive.html

In other news, I got an invitation in the mail today to attend some kind of dinner in DC at which Richard Brodhead and a panel will talk about "Duke's contribution to the world" or something like that. No mention of anything lacrosse-related.

A PR campaign is clearly well underway, but I doubt the administration will be able to change the subject as quickly as it would like.

Posted by Laurie Lin at 12:17 AM

[JLS]

Wonder how it would look if 2 middle age women went strutting up in Platinum?....Howlin I will be home in 2 weeks wanna go? LOL

Let's see: 1. You had better be prepared to get offers you might find offensive. 2. If Nifong finds out you were there and post here, he will likely have you arrested for trying to influence a witness.