[TommyDale]

As long as they keep liability away from other counties and the State, I don't care who gets sued. Holding other counties' taxpayers responsible will create a revolution in North Carolina. It's bad enough we have crooks in office, but they should be held responsible for financial losses.

[McGavin999]

This whole fiasco has caused irreparable damage to those three young men and I think everyone involved in it should pay through the nose so it never happens again. You don't play with young lives like that.

[Always Right]

Duke should fire everyone of those professors who signed on to that ad.

[GaltMeister]

Nifong and the University listened to the potbangers exclusively and ignored reality and any evidence that would deny them from imprisoning those guys for a long time.

Now they get to defend themselves, and I hope the Duke 3 end up owning the potbangers, Duke, Durham County, and Nifong.

[Royal Wulff]

This is going to be fun. I wonder what they'll rename the university once they own it. Maybe they'll just shut it down and live on it like a huge estate. Looks like they'll own much of Durham county also.

[blam]

"Nobody should think he is going to get away with that."

Good!

[Enterprise]

"After being accused not only of rape, but also of covering up a rape and then hiding behind a "wall of silence," we understand now that the players did come forward and tell the truth, but the "truth" they told was not what the police, prosecutors, and apparently the powers that be at Duke University wanted to hear."

They told the truth, and too many people couldn't handle the truth.

[Dick Vomer]

I've said this before....

the asshat DA picked on the wrong kids....their parents are rich and in order to send them to Duke have invested money and pride in that fact....

so if some hick is going to embarrass their kid and family name, well then all gloves are off. There is nothing more dangerous than a rich mommy whose kid you hurt or tried to hurt.

I'd make every day for the rest of my life, "How can I screw Mike Nifong Day?". Instead of $10,000 dollar vacations (rich families) I'd spend it on legal retainers...Instead of a new Mercedes, I'd get the Lexus and keep it for an extra year in order to spend on legal fees... to make my life's hobby, "How can I screw Mike Nifong's Life up worse than it is?"...

This clown tried to put my son in prison or killed by some black racists, well then he needs to be the greeter at the local Walmart or maybe delivering pizza and chasing after tips in a AMC Gremlin.

I'm just going to get some popcorn to see the rich mommies try to disembowel Nifong...the dad's are p#ssed, but the mommies sound like they're out for blood.

[GoldCountryRedneck]

Thanks for the post. I've frequently found myself frustrated that elected officials get away with murder (sometimes literally) for which the public would be jailed and sued.

As one of the parents said, "They picked the wrong families." and the quality of the defense attorneys, and their conduct of due diligence, has been superb.

I, too, have to join the side that hopes that Duke, Durham, and Nifong, get nailed for damage$ which will provide amply to all concerned for life.

[Herakles]

Add this to the mix;

Expert Admits "Big Error" In Duke Case;

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/11/60minutes/main2352512.shtml

This actually brings into question every DNA case that the county has ever prosecuted; AND every case Dr. Brian Meehan, who withheld the DNA analysis has ever done, not to mention every case his company, or any company he has worked for, has been a part of - this whole thing is so much larger than it looks.

If they follow the trail, it could result in finding other DA's in the country who withheld evidence. This whole thing could be national.

[Continental Soldier]

After the way Duke University dealt with this case and with the three accused, not enough bad things can happen to that school and to it's administration and to it's faculty! What a disgrace to justice, fair play and the presumption of innocence! Duke is a school that should disappear from our educational landscape.

[Ohioan from Florida]

Duke LAX ping!

[SunkenCiv]

Nifong wants out times eight (keywords are our friends):

Nifong recusing himself from Duke Kidnapping and Sexual Assault case
ABC News Radio | 1/12/07 | ABC News Radio
Posted on 01/12/2007 5:06:42 PM EST by abner
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766710/posts

NIFONG WANTS OUT!!!!!!!
http://drudgereport.com/
Posted on 01/12/2007 5:15:32 PM EST by Risha
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766717/posts

EXCLUSIVE: DA in Duke Rape Case Asks to be Taken off Case
abc | 1/12/07 | LARA SETRAKIAN
Posted on 01/12/2007 5:29:39 PM EST by mathprof
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1766729/posts

EXCLUSIVE: DA in Duke Rape Case Asks to Be Taken off Case
ABC News | Jan. 12, 2007 | LARA SETRAKIAN
Posted on 01/12/2007 5:45:18 PM EST by Tinian
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1766746/posts

Nifong wants out
ABC News | Jan. 12, 2007 | LARA SETRAKIAN
Posted on 01/12/2007 9:03:38 PM EST by gigo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1766853/posts

Prosecutor Mike Nifong Removed From Duke Rape Case
WCBSTV
Posted on 01/13/2007 3:02:54 PM EST by Sub-Driver
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767160/posts

NC Attorney General Agrees to Mike Nifong's Request to Be Removed From Duke Lacrosse Case
Fox | January 13, 2007 | Staff
Posted on 01/13/2007 7:17:44 PM EST by Anti-Bubba182
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767261/posts

LIVE THREAD: 2:30 Press Conference Regarding Nifong's Request to be Excused from Duke Case
FNC | January 13, 2007
Posted on 01/13/2007 2:03:36 PM EST by Peach
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1767137/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Generally, the one crime you can commit in America which is ALWAYS severely punished, is to embarass the power structure, and Fong has done that; he has made the entire legal profession in NC look like a third-world clown act. Nobody should think he is going to get away with that.

ah, but the 88 professors who jumped on the dogpile are unfit as teachers, and should be suspended, investigated, and fired.