Posted on 11/16/2006 1:39:09 AM PST by goldstategop
Greta has suggested that Nifong might be mentally ill.
I have followed the story of little Trenton and if anybody should be sued, is his late mother. She had him in a porn flick, she framed her ex-husband, she lied and refused to help find him. And I saw not a sign of these relatives during searches.
If Nancy can be sued when she is right, so can anyone of us. And that is just wrong.
Well, gee, ya' think?
Do we know for a fact that Trenton was put in a porn flick? If so, wasn't it the husband who made that information public? What a sweetheart. He's real worried about his kid, isn't he? In ten years (assuming Trenton is found alive and well), when he's old enough to understand such things, won't it be nice that his daddy outed his mother so the whole world knows and has seen clips from her porno work?
Neither one of them is a saint, that is for sure. It's probably very likely that the mother spirited Trenton away to keep dad from getting him. But Nancy went down the road that the mother had harmed Trenton, and that doesn't appear to be the case if the newer information and the police theory is right, so Grace was not correct in the theory behind her badgering of the mother. As usual, Nancy shot her mouth off based on very lean pickings of evidence, just like she did in the Duke case.
As I said before, anyone can be sued anytime for anything. Frivolous and malicious cases get filed all the time and even though they are almost always dismissed, the defendant still has to get a lawyer and go through the steps. But this isn't a frivolous or malicious filing.
It got legislated and bureaucratized away in NC.
"It got legislated and bureaucratized away in NC."
I guess NC is off my list of States to retire in. There must be too many ex-yankees there fouling up the works in Durham.
Yeah, we were headed to NC to retire, but switched to TN instead. I didn't know all this about NC when we made the decision, but it turns out we fell into the better choice.
That expression has no meaning in the state of NC. Just like "innocent until proven guilty".
"That expression has no meaning in the state of NC"
I was hoping this applied to Durham only and no the whole state.
There are some cities that are more corrupt than others. Clearly Durham is head & shoulders in that category. NC has been RAT run for a long time which likely contributes to it.
It's probably more common than we think. Just over the hill in Virginia we have most of the sheriff's department arrested & charged with corruption.
As long as the DA is given the power he's given in NC & the laws are twisted to favor the prosecutor such as the "speedy" trial issue, nothing is going to change anytime soon. It makes him practically invincible which just feeds the ego of people like Fong. There are plenty more out there I'm sure. This is just one of the first times people have been willing to speak out about it. NC needs to clean house from the local level to the governor's mansion.
The ex-husband didn't out her for porn flicks made in her home. Those videos were known to CPS already before the disappearance and were in their records and came out in an investigation. The relatives who are all for suing Nancy have done next to nothing to help find this little boy.
I am just sick of these frivolous lawsuits. However, a lawsuit by the lacrosse players I can accept. There Nancy was terribly wrong.
Thanks very much. We expect to be there in just a couple more months.
I see. You were there when the police interviewed her.
Thanks for clearing that up.
The relatives most likely know where Trenton is. They most likely hold the father partly responsible for the mother's death so, if they have Trenton, they're not going to hand him over because they know the dad will get custody. They will view the mother as giving her life to prevent that, illogical and stupid as it is.
It's been reported several times that CPS got the porn stuff from the dad.
I agree with you about lawsuits, and I don't think the family will win the suit unless Grace settles. Nevertheless, with the way she treats people, including the mother in this case, and going along with airing the show after the woman killed herself, and her general disregard for truth and fairness, she deserves whatever she gets. Piss on her.
Holdups beset Durham in week
Eleven robberies reported recently,
Matt Dees, Staff Writer, N&O, Nov 30, 2006
DURHAM - Durham police are investigating 11 armed robberies that happened in the past week.
Four robberies were reported Monday and Tuesday after seven occurred in the days around Thanksgiving.
One man was shot, and two people were pistol-whipped in two of the recent incidents.
Some of the Thanksgiving-time incidents ended with robbers firing shots at their victims, but no one was hurt, police said.
Police aren't sure whether some or all of the crimes are related. They are seeking any information about the following cases:
* At 12:47 a.m. Tuesday, in the 1900 block of Taylor Street, a man was driving with a woman when she told him to stop. A man approached with a gun, and the woman told the armed man to take the driver's money.
* At 9:35 p.m. Monday, at 1611 Duke University Road, three men entered an unlocked apartment and pistol-whipped another man before shooting him in the arm when he said he had no money.
* Just nine minutes earlier, at 2112 Broad St., a man was pistol-whipped and robbed of his wallet and cell phone as he sat on stairs near his apartment. The three men fled in a white sedan.
* At 7:17 p.m. Monday, also in the 1900 block of Taylor Street, two men in a car were stopped by three men standing in the road. Two of the three men pulled guns and stole a wallet and a necklace before firing seven shots in the car. No one was hurt.
* At 9:05 p.m. Friday at 901 Chalk Level Road, two men approached another man outside his apartment and asked whether he had any marijuana.
When the man said he did not, the two robbers pulled out two handguns and demanded his money.
One suspect forced his way into an apartment, which was occupied by several people, including four children. During the robbery, a 4-year-old boy sneaked into his bedroom, dressed himself in a Power Ranger costume and got a plastic sword.
He approached the armed suspect in an attempt to protect his family.
The robbers fled with money, credit cards and phones.
* At 6:49 p.m. Friday, at 1315 Morreene Road, a man armed with a rifle robbed two men sitting in a car. The robber fled in a white car driven by another person.
* At 10:15 p.m. Thursday, at 5906 Tattersall Drive, four men wearing masks told three victims to get on the ground and robbed them at gunpoint. They fled toward Fayetteville Road.
* At 9:28 the same night, at 5011 S. Alston Ave., four men demanded money from a man and a woman carrying a baby. One man pointed a gun at the woman and demanded her purse. When she refused, police said, another man tried to grab the baby. The four men fled in a dark four-door Mitsubishi. One shot was fired.
* At 10:25 p.m. Nov. 22, at 4230 Garrett Road, five men were robbed at gunpoint by five other men. One robber fired a shot. Two assailants fled in a black Nissan Altima; the other three fled on foot.
* At 9:22 p.m. Nov. 22, at 2816 Ross Road, three men with bandannas over their faces robbed two men at gunpoint and fired shots as the victims fled.
* At 9:05 p.m. Nov. 22, three masked men demanded money from a man at 1719 Cornwallis Road. The victim ran back in the apartment. Two shots were fired.
http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/516061.html
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Press group: Police violated photographer's rights
BY BRIANNE DOPART : The Herald-Sun, Nov 30, 2006
DURHAM -- Lawyers for the North Carolina Press Association say Durham police officers violated Durham-based photographer Julian Harrison's rights to work as a journalist when they confiscated his equipment and took him into custody at the scene of a Nov. 3 officer-involved shooting.
Amanda Martin, general counsel for the NCPA, said the fact the incident was not the only time officers had attempted to bar Harrison from working was "offensive to the First Amendment." The incident occurred when Harrison was videotaping the scene of the Nov. 3 shooting. City Councilman Eugene Brown has asked for a report on the incident to be presented to the City Council at its next meeting, Monday.
Brown, contacted Thursday, said he is withholding comment on the incident for now, since the investigation has not been completed.
Harrison, a freelance photographer whose work occasionally appears in The Herald-Sun, was standing outside a police crime scene tape when an officer identified as Capt. Dowdy -- who police spokeswoman Kammie Michael later said was not present at the department's "media training" session days earlier -- pushed Harrison onto the hood of a civilian's car and arrested him for "disorderly conduct."
Magistrate Eric Van Vleet refused to charge Harrison and released him in less than an hour, saying he had done nothing wrong.
While the police department does have a right to take control of a crime scene when the integrity of an investigation or the safety of individuals becomes an issue, NCPA counsel Martin said officers do not have a right to intimidate members of the media or to prevent them from "trying to do their jobs."
"Journalists have no more or less rights than the public at large," Martin said, "And the public at large has the right to be on public property."
Last week, Harrison said he and his attorney, Fred Battaglia, would be seeking both internal and external investigations into the arrest, which Harrison described as a physical attack.
Police Chief Steve Chalmers said Thursday the department is conducting its own independent internal investigation and working on a report about the incident for the City Council. He added his department would comply with whatever investigations are mandated, but said Harrison and his lawyer have failed to file an official complaint.
Martin said an external investigation conducted by the State Bureau of Investigation may be in the cards for the Durham Police Department, which has had several issues with Harrison in the past. The NCPA represented Harrison in the aftermath of one of those episodes, Martin said.
Chalmers, who declined to discuss the case because the internal investigation has not been completed, said he could not recall the previous incidents involving Harrison and asked that he be alerted to any prior clashes between Harrison and his officers.
Members of the media have no reason to fear arrest when working in their capacity as journalists, said Chalmers. He added that the department does not need to reassess its relationship with the media because the incident involving Harrison was an isolated one.
In the month since The Herald-Sun broke the news of Harrison's arrest, the incident has been posted and discussed on numerous national Web sites, including the conservative site Townhall.com and another site -- morebadcopnews.com
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-794474.html
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The Bob Steel-led Board of Trustees has just concluded its regularly scheduled meeting. The Board offered no comment on the serious conflict of interest allegations leveled against Steel by a left-to-right coalition of good-government groups in yesterday’s Washington Post. But the Board did make two moves—one by action, one by inaction—that made perfectly clear where the Board stands on Duke’s future.
Inaction
In its final meeting before the deadline to apply to Duke’s Class of 2011, the Board remained silent about Mike Nifong’s “separate-but-equal” system of justice for Duke students.
Parents considering spending the more than $40,000 annual tuition to send their son or daughter to Duke should, therefore, have no doubt that the institution will remain silent in face of a prosecutor who employs a different set of procedures for Duke students than those used for all other Durham residents. Prospective parents also now can be assured that the BOT has no complaints with the Durham PD’s official policy of meting out greater punishment to Duke students than to all other Durham residents for the same misdemeanor-level offenses.
Many might argue that with this silence, Duke’s trustees have failed in their fiduciary duty to the institution. But Steel, obviously, has a different vision of his proper role. . . . With its actions and non-actions today, the Board responded to those who have been urging Duke to take a clearer stand on the case. Not only is the Board unwilling to challenge Nifong’s “separate-but-equal” system for Duke students, but it went out of its way to reward the faculty who have acted as Nifong’s campus cheerleaders.
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