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Head of DNA lab says he and Nifong agreed not to report results
The NEws & Observer ^
| Dec 15, 2006 02:07 PM
| Joseph Neff, Benjamin Niolet and Anne Blythe
Posted on 12/15/2006 12:00:48 PM PST by nj_pilot
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To: r9etb
True, but you left out a key ingredient. Nifong is a white guy trying to get re-elected in a town that is predominantly black. If he didn't prosecute he would have pissed off his constituency and not been re-elected.
Not an apology, just a fact. The man should be in jail.
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posted on
12/15/2006 12:52:42 PM PST
by
Lee'sGhost
(Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
To: nj_pilot
I'd sure like to see nifong doing the jail time he has tried to get for these young men.
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posted on
12/15/2006 12:52:53 PM PST
by
freeangel
( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
To: Mark was here
Why are you bypassing the state? Why not invoke the civil rights violation(s) under Federal statues. The NC state structure sure isn't doing anything.
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posted on
12/15/2006 12:53:00 PM PST
by
GoldCountryRedneck
("Idiocy - Never under estimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - despair.com)
To: delphirogatio
I heard a commentator say that NC has no "speedy trial" reference in its laws....fwiw That just shows you how stupid commentators are - the right to a speedy trial is guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the US Constitution - it is not up to the states.
To: All
Fromm NC Dept of Department of Justice
Attorney General Roy Cooper
(http://www.ncdoj.com/default_contactus_form.jsp?sectionid=ag&subsectionid=general)
District Attorneys:
In North Carolina, district attorneys are Constitutional officers directly elected by the people in the district where they serve and are not a part of the Attorney General's Office. Complaints against a member of a local district attorney's office should be directed to the staff member's immediate supervisor and, if unresolved, to the district attorney.
from the Constitution of North Carolina
(
http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/stgovt/article_iv.htm) Sec. 18. District Attorney and Prosecutorial Districts.
(1) District Attorneys. The General Assembly shall, from time to time, divide the State into a convenient number of prosecutorial districts, for each of which a District Attorney shall be chosen for a term of four years by the qualified voters thereof, at the same time and places as members of the General Assembly are elected. Only persons duly authorized to practice law in the courts of this State shall be eligible for election or appointment as a District Attorney. The District Attorney shall advise the officers of justice in his district, be responsible for the prosecution on behalf of the State of all criminal actions in the Superior Courts of his district, perform such duties related to appeals therefrom as the Attorney General may require, and perform such other duties as the General Assembly may prescribe.
From what I read here , this guy is responsible only to himself
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posted on
12/15/2006 12:56:36 PM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: nj_pilot
Curiouser and curiouser.
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posted on
12/15/2006 12:58:26 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam is a religion of peace, and Muslims reserve the right to kill anyone who says otherwise.)
To: CA Conservative
That just shows you how stupid commentators are - the right to a speedy trial is guaranteed by the 6th Amendment to the US Constitution - it is not up to the states. That's true, but the federal speedy trial right is pretty amorphous, as I recall.
For instance, in my state, if you assert speedy trial, the state has 70 days to bring the case. I'm not aware of any Supreme Court decision that puts a time limit on federal speedy trial right, so it becomes a question of "how long is too long?"
Also, I don't know if the boys have asserted speedy trial, which is certainly possible. Speedy trial is a right that must be demanded.
To: delphirogatio
Federal charges of violation of the players' civil rights and consprircy may be pretty good to hang this bastard out to dry.
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:10:55 PM PST
by
geezerwheezer
(get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
To: Seruzawa
"Nifong, you piece of crap."
How dare you call Nifong a piece of crap.
Now I would never do that to a piece of crap.
Nifong is so much lower, more dirty than crap.
He makes crap smell like a high price perfume!!!
To: GoldCountryRedneck; delphirogatio
...yet I think that when Nifong moved the trial to next year, the DoJ should have jumped. Something 'bout "...the right to a speedy trial....".
>I heard a commentator say that NC has no "speedy trial" reference in its laws....fwiw
U.S. Constitution - Amendment 6
Amendment 6 - Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
There are numerous Civil Rights violations here. The DOJ should've been on this months ago.
This is the kind of stuff that angers me about Bush and his administration.
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:13:46 PM PST
by
Tinian
To: AZRepublican
He was just reelected - and that is evidence the sheeple don't care about anything!
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:13:57 PM PST
by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: nj_pilot
I don't understand how reporting that no lacrosse players' DNA was found violates the players' privacy? What is private about it being known that they did NOT have sexual relations with that woman?
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:15:36 PM PST
by
Burkean
To: Youngman442002
If you're hung it should only be known in private. You can be hanged in public however.
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:16:37 PM PST
by
em2vn
To: GoldCountryRedneck
"Why not invoke the civil rights violation(s) under Federal statues. The NC state structure sure isn't doing anything"
If this was a White Southern DA prosecuting a bunch of poor black boys for spiting in the back of a bus, The media, Federal and State prosecutors and Geraldo would be going 24/7 with the story. Rich white prep boys are not worthy.
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:17:28 PM PST
by
crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
To: M1Tanker
politically charged case to get reelected.Not re-elected. He was never elected to begin with, he was appointed by Governor Michael Easley. And you wonder why Easley has been so silent.
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:18:47 PM PST
by
ladyjane
To: ladyjane
And you wonder why Easley has been so silent.For that matter, why has there been such silence from Nancy Grace, Kimberly Guilfoyle and the rest of the cable TV legal "experts" who had these lacrosse players strapped to the gurney?
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:24:01 PM PST
by
CFC__VRWC
(AIDS, abortion, euthanasia - Don't liberals just kill ya?)
To: nj_pilot
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:25:42 PM PST
by
Main Street
(Stuck in traffic)
To: nj_pilot
Holy cow!
Nifong and Meehan colluded to perpetrate criminal acts and now, at last, it is out in the open.
To: AD from SpringBay
To: nj_pilot
It looks like Nifong just perjured himself.
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posted on
12/15/2006 1:30:09 PM PST
by
ViLaLuz
(2 Chronicles 7:14)
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