Here is what I don't udnerstand; if the AG can't take him off the case, why would Nifong ask him to take him off the case?
I don't know ... maybe he had advice from his newly appointed attorney, David Freedman.
The N&O on his meeting with Precious:
http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/531708.html
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong met in his office Thursday with the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case. Defense lawyers had served a subpoena on the woman addressed at Nifong's office. She was in the office Thursday and personally received the document, the subpoena said.