Any defense lawyer worth his salt who had a case prosecuted by Nifong is going to be filing an extraordinary motion for new trial.
I don't know exactly what an "extraordinary motion" is, but it wouldn't surprise me if these attorneys in these other cases had all their new fees paid by the state. And I hate lawyers as much as the next guy (hell, as much as the next three guys!), but it wouldn't be unreasonable based on the jeopardy, nay, peril, in which Nifong has placed the state.