Listen up, Patrick Fitzfong, you're next. I hope.
Despite everything, the three defendants are STILL facing 30-year prison terms; and the special prosecutors now reviewing the case aer thought by many to have a history of putting the state's interests ahead of justice (think of the Gell and Malloy cases, for example.)
Many believe they are actually still looking for SOME kind of charges to pin on the three, in order to spare North Carolina the enormous political and financial fallout from dismissing the case.
This is a political trial, and in political trials, noise counts.
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spotlight turned on in Durham, and maybe help prevent
three innocent defendants from being railroaded to a wrongful conviction.
Monks leaves party helm
BY BRIANNE DOPART, The Herald-Sun
The former chairman of the Durham County Republican Party, who is best known for his unsuccessful write-in candidacy against District Attorney Mike Nifong, had planned to do a lot of explaining in his farewell address to the committee at the county convention Saturday.
The purpose of the convention was to elect a new chair and vice chair, but the election -- which Melodie Parrish and Laney Funderburk won respectively -- came after Monks' address, in which he claimed responsibility for the party's lack of skilled leadership and urged party members to stop fighting among themselves.
The attorney and non-Durham native took the blame for a broad range of wrongs, from what he described as "the lousiest location" for a committee dinner ever to "not being able to heal the divisive wound in our party which we've been struggling with for at least two years."
Monks had just gotten to a section of his presentation titled "The Winters of My Discontents" when committee member Julie Simons rose and asked him to stop, saying she felt the committee's troubled past was just that, in the past.
"I just don't believe in airing dirty laundry in public," Simons later said.
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Although Monks never made it to the portion of his presentation in which he planned to discuss the creation of the Web site www.durhamrepublicans.org, which calls Monks a spoiler and encouraged people to "beg" Monks to resign as party chairman, he did make reference to the site in his recommendations for the party, in which he said the site should be taken down and groups like the Durham Conservative Club and Concerned Citizens for Accountable Government, the latter of which was founded by Monks' campaign organizer, Charlotte Woods, be dissolved.
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Regarding his ill-fated run for district attorney, Monks rehashed his decision to make himself a write-in candidate, saying he met with "some powerful Democrats" who told him to pull out of the race, and saying he didn't take "getting pushed around, bribed or threatened by Democrats lightly.
Monks did not name names.
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http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-825638.cfm
http://www.durhamrepublicans.org/
Durham DA recall election spoiled by "hijacked" local county GOP
http://www.durhamrepublicans.org/durham2006darace.html