Posted on 01/13/2007 11:03:36 AM PST by Peach
Press conference scheduled for 2:30 regarding Nifong's request to be excused from Duke case.
FNC will carry live.
He said he was stepping down because he felt the victim couldn't get a fair trial.
Makes no sense at all, but he couldn't acknowledge a conflict of interest.
Goodness Coman was involved in a bigger case of injustice against a defendant...THE GEll TRAVESTY!
OY VEY!
2. They know this loser case must be dropped and these two need this on their resume to look like fair people.
I wondered if the State would step in and do the right thing. Step in...yes. Do the right thing...no. The AG made a point of saying that nothing would affect their judgement but the evidence, i.e., racial politics and politics in general will not be an issue. Feh! That's all this is about. They'd best be careful though, because those young men have some good attorneys and some really angry parents.
This has another picture of him.
http://www.newsobserver.com/634/story/184311.html
The AG had to say that nothing but the evidence would affect their decision. He better know we are all watching and what he does better be the right move.
They either better dismiss this case or have some real evidence beyond Mangum's latest tall tail.
And a lot more eyes watching than they are used to.
Are we suppose to have confidence in THAT guy after reading THAT article?
Good grief; what the hell is wrong with this state.
I just cannot get over how IGNORANT this guy is about the law; he can't even get a statement right and yet he won reelection?
Watching him leave the other night and then looking back at some pictures of him, he's just goofy; I'm thinking he is a complete lightweight way in over his head with no real knowledge of legal procedures. In fact, he just may be a real, honest to goodness simpleton.
If I was an attorney who had lost a case to him, I'd be reviewing my files right now.
A true view of what exactly is going on here (in the entire legal system of NC) is whether or not that happens.
No kidding. Within minutes we had backgrounds on both Coman and Winstead that raise serious questions about their view of justice. Both were involved on the wrong side of cases leading to the Open Discovery statute. I want to be optomistic, but these two appear to be very polished versions of Nifong.
Maybe this is why Nifong thought he didn't do anything wrong. He acted consistent with other DAs in the state and they had never been seriously challenged before. Are we about to go through the same thing. Sheesh, does NC need to be federalized?
Just kill me now. FGS, a close friend of Easley's?
"N.C. Prosecutors Stifled Evidence" is not the most encouraging headline. People need to keep this information out front.
I believe the state is suffering the effects of a RAT infestation.
Now, THAT I would be happy with; if I thought that information would ever see the light of day.
God only knows what is going on in the back rooms of NC this very minute.
Well, the new dog will be returned to the groomer on Wednesday and the old dog is going there to be groomed. I don't think the old dog will mind one bit when she returns home alone.
The pup is now in the kitchen with the gate up. I keep putting her outside, but she is not getting the idea of why she's being put out there.
So, do you think y'all will have a new DA this time next year? I met four people from Durham on my holiday cruise. They'd all voted against Nifong.
So far it is appears that we have Rosemary Woods and John Dean appointed as the special prosecutors. I hope they prove this wrong.
As you both point out, rightly, there are lots more eyes on them with this case than they are accustomed to in addition to the very good defense attorneys. I am guessing that part of their efforts will go toward protecting Crystal and Duke U. from any repercussions.
LOL..........my husband just came home with a new TALL gate for the cats to keep them off the new carpet.
They watched him struggle to put it up and then jumped right over it. :-)
I bet we do have a new DA by then, but thank goodness he's not mine; but for all I know, mine is worse!
Cozy bunch.
A rock in a hard place
Durham's district attorney draws strength from law.
The News & Observer
April 25, 1993
Author: Scott Huler; Staff writer
Estimated printed pages: 9
DURHAM -- Ron Stephens knows something about the rules.
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Assistant District Attorney Jim Hardin agrees. "I've never seen anyone that took greater pains to ensure that everyone we deal with is fed out of the same spoon," he says.
Mike Nifong, another assistant, says this is what makes a person of such seemingly rigid values excellent at plea bargaining. "Ron had this gift for making you an offer in a case that was a whole lot worse than you wanted but much better than you could get in court," he says. "The point of greatest stability, I guess you'd call it."
The point of greatest stability -- greatest consistency, greatest predictability -- is what Stephens is all about, according to his staff. Assistant District Attorney Mary Winstead, who's been in the office for six years, sums up the ADAs' opinion of Stephens': "The term we use for Ron around the office is that he's a rock."
Not that Stephens can't get angry.
Nifong describes the only time he can recall Stephens nearly losing his temper. "I had a case where a man was charged with an assault on his ex-wife," he says, sitting in his little office, about a third the size of Stephens', and beginning to smile. "I had a chance to take a plea, a plea to the maximum sentencing allowable." He couldn't reach the victim, he says, so he took the plea.
"That is the maddest I ever saw Ron," he says. "He was mad not because of the sentence but because I had not contacted the victim."
Stephens recalls the incident. What infuriated him, he says, was that the system let the victim down.
"That woman had lost her leg" as a result of the attack, he says. "She came in the office as an amputee, and she asked when was she going to have her day in court. And she did not get her day in court.
"I was more upset than the victim was."
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