I agree. People who conspire to frame the innocent or doctor evidence to point to an innocent person should face the same potential sentence as the crime they framed their victim for. If Nifong was facing 25 to life, I think he would have handled the evidence exonerating the Duke players with greater...um...respect for the law.
I like that idea: it is what is always cited when we discuss absolutely frivolous lawsuits which nonetheless wind up bankrupting innocent parties that are sued."It's what they do in Britain", they always say. Sometimes this is done by representatives of "Government", like Nifong, sometimes not. But it is ALWAYS perpetrated by LAWYERS/ Either way , the lawyers and/or the prosecutors should be held liable for the same punishments they are promoting for the accused parties. But sometimes they are VERY careful about pushing it to the very edges of legality in their transparently self-serving prosecution....my guess is that Nifong will retire soon, and for the sake of nicey-nice the lawyers for the LaCrosse players will just accept a dropping of charges./