Nifong should be forced to resign if he won't do it voluntarily.
I agree. It's the seriousness of the charge that counts.
He needs prison time.
The NC Bar wants more than his resignation. They want his bar membership yanked permanently, so that he can't practice law in the state at all, and would be very unlikely to get admitted to any other state's bar.
Not good enough. He should be disbarred, all charges against the players dropped, and for good measure he should be responsible for all legal expenses the players and their families encountered.
It's past time for him to go AND BE DISBARRED!!!
He's not gonna resign, and if I understand the rules correctly, the only person who can remove him is the judge of the Superior Court.
Unfortunately, that person is one of his buddies and is protecting him, refusing to act on a petition for his removal filed a while back until after the bar proceedings. The law required him to act on the petition within 30 days. He claims that issuing a stay that will be in effect for a good six months met the definintion of "acting."
Hard to believe that is what the legislature intended ...