Posted on 12/18/2006 4:44:22 PM PST by abb
his is not the way the system is supposed to operate. Prosecutors are supposed to be out for justice, not blood; committed to the truth, at all costs, not winning, without more.
Prosecutors aren’t just morally obliged but legally required to turn over exculpatory evidence to the defense.
Prosecutors aren’t just one side in a battle.
You can’t come across the smoking gun covered with fingerprints on it – come across it because you have the power of the state to collect all the evidence – and then decide to ignore it because they don’t match the fingerprints of the guy you’re prosecuting for the crime. You certainly can’t file the report from the lab for your eyes only.
You have to tell the defendant that the smoking gun has someone else’s prints on it. He has a right to know that, and the prosecutor has a duty to tell him.
There is a reason that the rules are such. The prosecutor represents the people. The people’s goal is winning, which doesn’t have to mean a perfect conviction rate.
The goal is supposed to be to convict the guy who did it, not frame the guy you’ve got.
Somebody should tell that to Mike Nifong. Or to the judge who is in a position to do something about who prosecutes the Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.
What is going on in the prosecutors’ office in Durham North Carolina is disturbing in ways that go beyond the ugly allegations that started this case.
The District Attorney has clearly lost sight of his mission, and with it the last remnants of any ethical compass. The case has been characterized, since the outset, by a clear failure to follow the office’s own procedures and practices.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
He made a pact with the devil. He tacitly promised them the dirty work they desire in exchange for votes.
I hope something is done so that Nifong is open to civil litigation for his framing of these young men. I hope they are able to sue him for everything he owns and every single dime he generates until his miserable life ends in obscurity and disease, alone under some overpass.
He is already ruined spiritually. I believe the term 'wailing and gnashing of teeth' comes to mind.
It makes you wonder about the other cases he's prosecuted since he obviously has no ethics at all.
doubt it ask her what her position is on the liberal judge that gave Lynn Stewart 28 months and bail while her appeal is in progreass for aiding and abeting terrorist Abdel-Rahman...
She will most likely tell you it is a just sentence... Liberals just don't get the War on Terror period.
With all those guys in her pants, does anyone wonder if this woman perhaps was working as a hooker as well as a stripper? Or has this been brought up already?
Yes, and yes again!
Now if she could just get rid of that raspy voice . . . .
Where did this guy, Nifong, get his law degree?
"With all those guys in her pants, does anyone wonder if this woman perhaps was working as a hooker as well as a stripper? Or has this been brought up already?"
Ya THINK?
In that case, the odds of the DNA being identified is rather slim, is it not?
Why defend Estrich. Here mild call for replacement is absurd. She should be advocating prosecution of this guy. She should be talking about Duke University, and the players themselves suing the pi$$ out of the jurisdiction he represents. She isn't a jury. But she certainly knows enough law to know that both a crime and have been committed here.
ML/NJ
I occassionally think. Depends on my mood.
UNC-Chapel Hill
Thanks for the update. I hadn't heard about that stuff.
> If those boys are found innocent, I want that accuser's name and picture splashed all over the net and on tv. Then I want her prosecuted <
Yep, just as Tawana Brawley was prosecuted -- not.
"UNC-Chapel Hill"
...located in "The People's Republic of..."
Yes, but back then there weren't the blogs we have now. Blogs that do sometimes actually drive the news. I agree with your assessment, but it IS possible, anyway.
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