Nifong has no recall of session

The News&Observer ^ | March 2, 2007 | Anne Blythe, Staff Writer

[mikeus_maximus]

Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and the lead investigators in the Duke lacrosse case have different recollections of the first time they huddled at the Burlington laboratory that provided DNA testing for the prosecution.

Durham police Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and Investigator Benjamin Himan each listed in their case notes that they were at DNA Security on April 10, a week before any indictments in the case...

[mikeus_maximus]

Translation: It's not my fault. (a) I was overworked, (b) the Bar is targeting me just because it wants a prosecutor to make an exmaple of, (c) I'm being harassed by "a well-connected and well-financed (but not, I would suggest, well-intentioned) group of individuals -- most of whom are neither in nor from North Carolina, have taken it upon themselves to ensure that this case never reaches trial."

Typical liberal non-accountability drivel.

[Sax]

"Nifong Playing the Victim"

You mean he's prancing around dressed like a black stripper?

[TommyDale]

"The dog ate my homework!"

[gcruse]

That's not the article headline...

[popdonnelly]

He falsely accused three people of rape. How is he the victim?

[AZRepublican]

State bar isn't going to buy his excuses.

[Admin Moderator]

1). This isn't Activism.
2). And it's not the correct headline, either.

[Dante3]

Nifong just keeps on lying like a sociopath.

[FreePaul]

Nifong is doing what he does best, lying.

[nctexan]

Classic! Nifong has taken the Hillary defense.

"HILLARY DOES NOT RECALL, DOES NOT REMEMBER, HAS NO MEMORY, HAS NO RECOLLECTION, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE SAID IT BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED IF SHE DID."

Cut from the same cloth.

[jiggyboy]

In his personal responses to the bar accusations, Nifong gives a glimpse of the case he planned against three former Duke lacrosse players..."For me, this case was an eyewitness identification case, one in which I was looking for DNA evidence that either corroborated that identification or refuted it," Nifong said.

LOL, good one, jerk, now you're lying to the Board too. Everybody in the world knows that you swore up and down that the DNA evidence would absolve any innocent men -- until it actually did, at which point you went out of your way to tell us why it was suddenly irrelevant.

[r9etb]

Bad news for Nifong. The "don't recall" strategy is just a cheater's way of taking the Fifth.

[Arrowhead1952]

Classic! Nifong has taken the Hillary defense.

That was my first thought as well - had to scroll thru the replies to see who got it first.

[patton]

"In one of the letters, Nifong said he feared the bar was "looking for a prosecutor" to punish for the misdeeds of other prosecutors whose misconduct has recently come to light and who have gone largely unpunished."

[Mr. Brightside]

The next excuse will be, "I only did it for the children."

[Mr. Lucky]

Unfortunately for Mr. Nifong, "taking the 5th" doesn't work in a civil disbarment proceeding.

[HarleyLady27]

Does this sound like someone else we all know?

I don't know

I don't recall

It could have, I just don't remember

Amazing how these people can get away with anything they want....

[EagleUSA]

Classic! Nifong has taken the Hillary defense.
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Yes, lying bastards all. This is a new chapter for the liberal Dem playbook that we must give credit to Hitlery for...she did cultivate the "cannot recall" defense.

"Hillary, did you steal all of those FBI files...??"
"Gee, I cannot recall..."

[maggief]

He forgot before he remembered ...

In a Dec. 28 letter to the bar, Nifong said his first meeting with Meehan was April 21, four days after the first indictments.

It was then, Nifong said, that he learned of the presence of DNA on the accuser's clothing and body from men other than the tested lacrosse players and the accuser's boyfriend.

But in the Jan. 16 letter to the bar, Nifong wrote about a May 12 meeting in which Meehan provided a report to the prosecution.

"He also discussed with us the results of the tests he had performed since our April 10, 2006, meeting," Nifong said.

[savedbygrace]

"Mistakes were made."

"I'd had a lot of iced tea to drink and I was probably in the bathroom when that was discussed."

"I've never worked so hard on a case in my life." (bites lower lip)