If Joyner has turned on him then Nifong's done. Maybe this can end up that the black community in Durham blames Nifong for procedural screwups that ruined an otherwise "perfect case".
'Way back when, we all speculated who would throw whom overboard when it all came unraveled. We saw a hint of the plan back last summer when Cash (Trash) Michaels wrote "...if this is all Nifong has..." Plus Gretta and Co. this week trying to paint Crystial as the "victim" of the overzealous prosecutor...
I'm sure that's what they want. They want Nifong to take the full hit for them so there's no mention of their desire to railroad these boys into a prison cell for retribution because they're white.
Joyner's abandonment probably signals the beginning of the death rattle.
I've been waiting and hoping for the legal community to abandon Nifong. Without approval or at least a noncommittal quietude from his peers, Nifong can't survive.
Maybe Joyner has heard that Mangum won't show on 2/5, so instead of letting "a black girl from Durham" become the bad guy, he wants to pin it all on Nifong, the white chump, in advance of that.