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the Woody Vann guy on Greta last night spoke as if there is no legal way the judge can dethrone Nifog or dismiss this case, historically....

I hope he is wrong but he is from that neck of the woods.....

I can't imagine anywhere else in the US where a witch hunt such as this would be allowed to go on knowing what we know, and knowing to what lenghts the DA is going to.....

the DA and the DNA guy have opened up a can of worms....I can see many cases that used that DNA lab having verdicts thrown out....

the Woody Vann guy on Greta last night spoke as if there is no legal way the judge can dethrone Nifog or dismiss this case, historically....

Vann is a very slow very unimaginative guy. A creative judge might be able to do a lot to derail this case. For example a real judge might have:

1. held Nifong in contempt and jailed him for laughing and smirking while the defense lawyers we speaking in the early hearings. I don't know how long a judge can hold someone in NC on contempt. But if a Judge in this case did that to Nifong every time he misbehaved in court, I wonder just how long it would take Nifong to drop these charges?

2. held a supression hearing by now and thrown out the ID. [BTW, this is a separate oppourtunity to hold Nifong in contempt and putting him in jail for lying to the court to get that order.]

3. held a hearing cocerning whether or not Nifong had spoken to Mangum about her allegation. This would be another opportunity to throw Nifong in jail for contempt for lying to the court.

If every few days the Judge had a hearing to establish that Nifong was in contempt and sent him back to jail each time, I bet Nifong would get the hint real quickly.

The judges in the case have greatly fallen down in their duty to protect the NC criminal justice system. NC proceedures are not great for doing it, but a creative judge could find a way to get the message to Nifong that he is not the ruler of the world.