Posted on 01/24/2007 2:03:39 PM PST by Sleeping Freeper
Yes, and your point? I'm well aware of the circumstances surrounding Elmo's arrest and that he was later acquitted in minutes. Your original claim was that Elmo had been intimidated into changing his story, and there's nothing in the article suggesting that, but thanks for re-posting it.
This wouldn't fly becasue the evidence would have been relevant and admissible to show that if she was raped her identification of the defendant(s) was faulty and the DNA shows that someone else committed the rape. Nifong is toast and should be. It would interesting to research whether he is subject to civil suit by the defendants if he is disbarred on the basis of these illegal actions. Prosecutorial immunity may not apply in this situation.
Bear in mind some of the additional charges is LYING TO THE BAR INVESTIGATORS. Gotta irritate them that when they'ed gone easy on him on the original beef, he upped the ante.
The speed of the filing and the intensity of the language in the bar's latest condemnations suggest that the political influences Nifong might normally expect to kick into motion to help him will not be available. He is a liar, and everyone knows it, and that is not a sustainable position for a prosecutor to be in, not even in NC. He openly lied to a judge five times, he lied to the bar, and he openly lied to the public. The timing of events proves that, and they are facts, and his claimed legal theories at the time he told those lies cannot expunge those facts. Nifong fell into the "a lie to cover another lie" syndrome/pattern. So now he has recused himself so he could remove himself from the environment of the case where he would be forced, by his own doing, to continue lying, but it's much too little and way too late for the salvation that recusal would have provided him had he bowed out when he first learned of the ethics complaints, which was months ago. If Nifong had contacted the lab to send the full report, turned it over belatedly under the excuse of oversight, then recused himself, he would be looking at a lot less damage than he is now. But now he's mired in a cesspool of deceit and lies he dug for himself, and colleagues are running from him like he's radioactive.
Mike Nifong is stuck in a "quagmire", to use a favorite word of rats, lol!
I wonder what career options Nifong has OTHER than the legal profession? I think his days as a lawyer are about to come to an end.
Duke Lacrosse Accuser: Injuries Consistent With Sexual Assault?
Recently, I had the chance to ask a fellow colleague what she thought. She is a nationally certified forensics nurse with almost 15 years experience in this field, who hasn't been following the Duke case.
I started out by asking her how she could recognize diffuse vaginal wall edema in a sexual assault case? She gave me this kind of dumb founded look, then asked the same question I've been asking myself all along: "How could you even see it?"
See, this has been the crux of the problem for me all along. I kept asking myself how was this nurse able to see the edema? I never have - not by itself, without any redness or other signs. I kept thinking, there has to be something else, some other genital findings. Everything I've been reading though states otherwise.
Now I know there can be rape without any physical or genital injuries. In fact, in most rape cases there aren't any injuries.
But the fact is, Sergeant Gottlieb specifically stated in his report that he asked if there were injuries consistent with a sexual assault and was told that that the “blunt force trauma” seen in the examination “was consistent with the sexual assault that was alleged by the victim.” That "blunt force trauma" has apparently turned out to be only diffuse vaginal wall edema.* The media reports state that is the only genital injury listed besides rectal edema.
Well, here's the problem: Edema, diffuse or otherwise, is not an injury. It is the body's response to an injury, an infection, or a disease or inflammatory process of some sort. It can be caused by any number of things.
Edema is not a characteristic of blunt force trauma. Characteristics of blunt force trauma are: contusions, abrasions, and lacerations.
http://tinyurl.com/353fpt
Yep. That will probably be his best option. Of course that will also mean he must give up his DA position. Cool.
I think this makes him exceedingly well-qualified to be a Democratic congressman. Isn't there an impeached judge and a "freezer bucks" thief in congress right now!
Leftist liberals do such wonderful things with the law: Nifong, the Clintons and Fitzpatrick.
Now, it is time for criminal and civil trials of Liefong, the Group of 88, $harpton, Je$$ie HiJack$on and the new Black Panthers.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1810510/posts
DURHAM, N.C. — — Sitting on the stoop of his small wood-sided home, on a parcel of scrub pines carved from a former tobacco plantation, William Ragland, 76, said he wanted to see justice, and soon, in the Duke lacrosse case.
That would mean putting on trial not the lacrosse players, but the district attorney who led the early prosecution of the case, said Ragland.
“I was shocked by how Mr. Nifong did the whole thing. It was a cover-up. He had evidence that these boys did not rape her,” and improperly kept it secret, said Ragland. “
The link below will take you to a picture of the druggie ho that the two black Raci$ts, Rev Un$harpton and Je$$e HyJack$on lied about to make headlines and bucks for Je$$e and $harpton.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/04122007/frontback.htm
It is time to debar LieFong, frog march him to criminal courts to be tried for conspiracy and malfeasance. Then frog march him over to civil trials by the players and their parents, the coaches and anyone who came close to being lynched by the black racist and mediots of America.
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