Posted on 06/15/2007 5:05:06 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Raleigh — The man who once pursued rape, sexual assault and kidnapping charges against three former Duke lacrosse players who were later declared innocent by North Carolina's attorney general says he will resign. (Watch Mike Nifong's announcement.)
"My community has suffered enough," a tearful Mike Nifong said Friday during his testimony at his State Bar ethics trial to the surprise of the families and defense attorneys of the cleared lacrosse players, as well as others in the courtroom.
"Throughout the years I have served as a prosecutor I have always tried to do the right thing," a tearful Mike Nifong said. "In this case, I was trying to do the right thing. Much of the criticism directed to me in the is case is justified. The allegations that I'm a liar, however, are not justified."
Nifong said regardless of the State Bar's decision, it would not be fair to the people in Durham County to be represented by "someone who is not held in high esteem."
The North Carolina State Bar has charged Nifong with withholding critical DNA test results from defense attorneys, lying to the court and Bar investigators and making misleading and inflammatory comments about the players.
If the Bar's three-member Disciplinary Hearing Commission decides he violated ethics rules, he could be disbarred.
Nifong said he did not make all the mistakes alleged by the Bar, "but they are my mistakes."
"It has become increasingly apparent, during the course of this week, in some ways that it might not have been before, that my presence as the district attorney in Durham is not furthering the cause of justice," Nifong said.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
Will he sing “Don’t Cry for Me Carolina” from the balcony?
My first thought too
Now if only we could get the President of Duke University and those 88 “protesting professors” to follow Nifong’s lead...
LOL. I hope so. The grocery store has tomatoes on sale this week.
....and the horse he rode in on.
He kind of the embodiment of what’s wrong with the legal system these days (besides activist judges). There is a bias in the public, just think of any high profile or celebrity trial of the past few years, where if the police make an arrest it means the person is guilty. But there are DAs, and others, who are more than willing to send innocent people to jail if a high profile case might help them move up in the world.
He needs to be in a cell of his own, enjoying the fate he’d intended to condemn those players to.
Nifong continues his dishonesty. What, does he think a bar association ethics trial is a negotiation session for resignation of his political office? When is he resigning again?
I bet he’d have had a field day with a criminal defendant that tried to introduce that kind of crap in a trial. He should have resigned on day one.
Hopefully, he will be disbarred forthwith, and the victims will have the fortitude to commence their civil rights suit. (Even odds that they will choose to “move on.” But who could blame them).
How about the guy who prosecuted the border guards on flimsy or no evidence. There were 3 supervisors there. & 7 other border guards.<<
How about Tom Delay?
Put it on video...Prosecutors Gone Wild!
Excuse me, but I must have overlooked it, where did Nifong utter the words ‘I will resign’? I see nowhere in the article where he uttered those words, or even words to that direct effect?
...and even IF he did, what difference does that make. A lying, scheming RAT can alway change his mind later
Nifong’s promise is a post dated check, drawn on a crashing bank. Disbar him, then prosecute.
Folk no longer use the colloquial, “railroaded” - it’s been replaced with “’fonged”.
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