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Whatever Nifong is up to, he does not want nor expect that he will be trying this case. But how he hopes or plans to make it play out I will just have to wait and see.

He knows that the identification will be thrown out if the February 5th hearing ever takes place. He's slimey, but he certainly knows what the lineup procedures are and that how they got her to identify who she did would not make it in court. He can then say he did his best, he still feels he brought a solid case but it is now out of his hands because the courts overruled him.

I think people are reading more into this and Nifong than there really is. It was a political move. Nifong most likely thought they were guilty of something short of sexual assault or rape and that they would cop a plea at some point. He just miscalculated and was so arrogant that he didn't consider the illegal things he was doing would ever get exposed either because of the plea he imagined would be made, or because he thought he had every judge "on his side". He just got in over his head and doesn't know what to do. He most likely knew that if a plea was not sought, the case would be thrown out at some point. I think he is at the point where if he unilaterally drops all the charges, his actions over the past nine months would remove his immuninty from civil liability. If a court throws out his case, its less likely his immunity would be affected.

All my opinion, obviously, but I say the Feb. 5th hearing never takes place. If it does, you wont see Crystal there. If he takes her into court and tries to enter here "new" account and identification, he will be way passed "bad judgement" and will have definitely entered the realm of prosecutorial misconduct, maliscious prosecution and other felonies as well.

Nifong Meets With Duke Lacrosse Accuser

Posted: 26 minutes ago
Updated: 4 minutes ago
Durham — Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong met with the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case for several hours at his office on Thursday, WRAL has learned.

While there, Durham County sheriff's deputies served her with a subpoena ordering her to be in court to testify at a Feb. 5 hearing.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/1134867/