[old curmudgeon]

The real problem is that at the same time Nifong was all over the news, there were two DA’s in the Fayetteville area and one in the Asheville area being investigated for withholding evidence, faking evidence, etc.

They only got wrapped on their knuckles.

I hung the jury in another case where the DA was going to send a kid to prison for a crime he could not possibly have committed because it was physically impossible for him to have traveled from a known point to the scene of the crime in the time required to go from one place to the other.

And that was only one of three fatal flaws in the case.

There is something very wrong with the way we elect DA’s and the lack of holding them accountable.

[Alaska Wolf]

There is something very wrong with the way we elect DA’s and the lack of holding them accountable.

Look at what we have in Washington D.C. Fortunately, In October, the Salt Lake Tribune obtained a memo written in May 2010 in which Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Rob Nixon flagged Steed's "pattern" of questionable DUI arrests. He wrote that the bulk of Steed's arrestees had no signs of "impairing drugs" in their systems.

We just need more people like UHP Sgt. Rob Nixon.