You've totally lost me. I have no idea what the old "I was just following orders" excuse has to do with Vann. He's just a pud in the local defense bar. He's not in the legislature, he's not a prosecutor, he's not a state bar officer, and he's not in the judiciary. Those are the enablers. To me, he's just an answering machine. To you, he's Hitler. :>
Anyway, I give up trying to explain this. It's not important.
Nope Vann's excuse is that "its just the system we have." That is a related but not quite the same excuse as the "I was only following orders" excuse.
And of course Vann is not Hitler, he is one of the millions of silent witness who was too chicken, to busy making money off this system to speak up. His choice, I only said that I did not think history would treat him or the rest of the NC bar any better on this than it has the AL bar of the 1930s on the Scottsboro boys. Now, I guess most people don't think much about what is right or their place in history. That is fine, but I certainly have my opinion of the Nifong enablers.