Posted on 04/12/2007 12:47:12 PM PDT by Doctor Raoul
Mike Nifong, the North Carolina prosecutor who pursued a case of rape and kidnapping against three Duke University lacrosse players, has been found to have been reckless and deceitful in the discharge of his duties according to the state's attorney general. He abused the power the people of Durham granted him. Based on the public record of what he did in this case, he may well be properly disbarred.
The accuser in this case has been shown to be either a vicious liar or a troubled fantasist.
The three young men who she accused are truly innocent of the charges brought against them according to the North Carolina Attorney General and the investigation led by his office.
But perhaps the outpouring of sympathy for Reade Seligman, Collin Finnerty and David Evans is just a bit misplaced. They got special treatment in the justice system--both negative and positive. The conduct of the lacrosse team of which they were members was not admirable on the night of the incident, to say the least. And there are so many other victims of prosecutorial misconduct in this country who never get the high-priced legal representation and the high-profile, high-minded vindication that it strikes me as just a bit unseemly to heap praise and sympathy on these particular men.
So as we rightly cover the vindication of these young men and focus on the genuine ordeal they have endured, let us also remember a few other things:
They were part of a team that collected $800 to purchase the time of two strippers.
Their team specifically requested at least one white stripper.
During the incident, racial epithets were hurled at the strippers.
Colin Finnerty was charged with assault in Washington, DC, in 2005.
The young men were able to retain a battery of top-flight attorneys, investigators and media strategists.
As students of Duke University or other elite institutions, these young men will get on with their privileged lives. There is a very large cushion under them--the one that softens the blows of life for most of those who go to Duke or similar places, and have connections through family, friends and school to all kinds of prospects for success. They are very differently situated in life from, say, the young women of the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
And, MOST IMPORTANT, there are many, many cases of prosecutorial misconduct across our country every year. The media covers few, if any, of these cases. Most of the victims in these cases are poor or minority Americans--or both. I would hate to say the color of their skin is one reason journalists do not focus on these victims of injustices perpetrated by police and prosecutors, but I am afraid if we ask ourselves the question honestly, we would likely find that it is. Look for a moment at what James Giles endured:
I hope we all keep him and others in mind, as we cover the celebrated exoneration of well-heeled, well-connected, well-publicized young men whose conduct, while not illegal, was not entirely admirable, either. They aren't heroes. They aren't boys. They are young men who were victimized by a reckless prosecutor--and had the resources the fight him off.
April 12, 2007
Her initial descriptions of her attackers never, not once, resembled the three young men she eventually picked out.
Oh My! Memory Flashback here -- Jesse Jackson and his Shakedown of WallStreet during the 90s. Ever seen which of the companies he shook down? Simply, the largest. What a coincidence. Just like Crystal's amazing "door number 3 pick".
Terry Moran is poverty stricken in soul and integrity -- That's worse than being poor.
Who is this Moran ass clown?
Lordy, this guy is talking through his hat. How dare a member of a privileged class talk about these kids. If Moran were to get drunk and kill someone with his car, you don’t think HE would be able to hire the same legal guns? Maybe these kids haqve learned a hard lkife liscense: that actions have consequences and that they had a narrow escape. But ten years from now they will still be remembered as that guys that “raped” the black stripper. But in the end their behavior was not as bad that that of Ted Kennedy.
“felony stupidity”......I LOVE IT! We need an INDICTMENT list kept by US here at FR....on “felony stupidity.”
I wish you HAD hit Terry Moron when you stood in line to the WH. I would have gladly donated the bail money.
> We need an INDICTMENT list kept by US here at
> FR....on “felony stupidity.”
http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.shtml
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Here are the first 535 names.
The lessons about our justice? system learned from this travesty and that we must never forget and work to correct: is that there are rogue lawyers, rogue DAs,rogue cops, rogue lab workers and hordes of other heartless people in positions to destroy innocent people for their own personal gains. How do we protect our less affluent citizens from these SOB’s, that is the question?
In my opinion, the only way to rein in people like Mike Nifong, caught in the very act of railroading three innocent young people into long prison terms for his own political gain, is for this Nifong and all future Nifongs, to serve the sentence he envisioned for his victims.
Same goes for false accusers such as Crystal Gail Mangum. Giving her a free pass is inviting other liars to accuse other innocent victims.
“Gee, Terry... have you ever been at a party where someone hired a stripper? A bachelor party? A “gentlemen’s club”?”
Terry is probably more of a Chippendale type of guy.
I encourage everyone to post their opinions at his blog. The form is right at the bottom of his post and it does not require any sort of registration.
I say fire Terry Moran!! Like these students needed another kick in the stomach. Maybe we can get Gail Mangum to accuse Terry of rape and see how he likes it. Where’s his moral outrage for the actual “stripping” instead of the guys who paid a few bucks for it, I’m sure Terry’s never been to a strip club right?? I hope Rush jumps all over this guy today or better yet the Duke players lawyers call him out.
"Their team specifically requested at least one white stripper."
So now racial quotas apply to sexual attraction?
Are we still allowed to choose who we date and marry - or is that also subject to affirmative action?
Terry Moran was named co-anchor of ABC News “Nightline” in October, 2005 and assumed anchor duties at the end of November; he is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he was named anchor of “World News Tonight Sunday” in August 2004, while continuing to serve as ABC News’ Chief White House correspondent, a role he held since September 1999. As White House Correspondent, Moran reported on all aspects of the Bush administration for “World News Tonight,” “Nightline” and other ABC News broadcasts. He traveled widely covering President Bush’s domestic and foreign trips and the President’s meetings with world leaders.
Moran was a key member of the ABC News team covering the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and he continued to report on all aspects of the war on terror while covering the Bush administration. He reported from the White House throughout the war with Iraq during the spring of 2003.
In November of 2003, Moran traveled to Baghdad to report on the U.S.-led occupation and the violent insurgency against it. His tour in Iraq gave him a unique perspective on the war, having covered first-hand both the president who launched it and the American men and women who fought it and have struggled to secure the country afterwards.
Moran also covered Vice President Al Gore’s presidential campaign. He traveled extensively, reporting on the primary battles between Gore and Senator Bill Bradley in Iowa, New Hampshire and on Super Tuesday. During the hard-fought general-election campaign, he logged thousands of miles with Vice President Gore and spent Election Day in Nashville, where he reported on the historic events that night. For the next 35 days, he covered the legal battle for the White House, and on the chaotic night the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Bush v. Gore, it was from listening to Moran’s clear explanation of the Court’s opinion that Vice President Gore himself learned he had lost the presidency.
In 1999 Moran traveled to the Balkans to cover the war in Kosovo and its troubled aftermath. From the refugee camps in Macedonia to the Roma (”gypsy”) neighborhoods of Pristina, he investigated war-crimes stories and reported on the human impact of the ‘ethnic-cleansing’ campaigns launched by both Serbs and Kosovars.
Prior to covering politics and policy, Moran spent ten years covering law. From 1998-1999 he was the primary ABC News correspondent assigned to the U.S. Supreme Court. He filed stories on several major cases of the term, including Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education, a case that raised the issue of schools’ liability for student-on-student sexual harassment. He joined ABC News in 1997.
Other legal stories he has covered for ABC News include the murder trial of British au pair Louise Woodward in Cambridge, Mass.; the fourth trial of Dr. Jack Kevorkian; the trial of the Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski; the Microsoft anti-trust case; and the Portland, Oregon, trial of anti-abortion activists sued for contributing to a website that the jury found illegally threatened abortion providers. For “Nightline” — among other stories — Moran covered the unique death-penalty case of Horace Kelly, a man who had gone insane on California’s death row and was then brought before a jury, which was asked if he should still be executed; the tragic rash of heroin-overdose deaths of teenagers in Plano, Texas; and the remarkable gathering of dozens of former death-row inmates freed when evidence of their innocence came to light. For this piece, Moran was awarded the Thurgood Marshall Journalism Award by the Death Penalty Information Center. He was also in Miami in the spring of 1999 when Elian Gonzalez was seized by federal agents and returned to his father, and he covered the protests and the civil disturbances in the city that followed the government’s action.
Prior to joining ABC News, Terry Moran was a correspondent and anchor for Court TV. He received critical acclaim for his nightly coverage of the day’s events in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, and for his extensive reports during the trial of Erik and Lyle Menendez, when the Los Angeles brothers first faced charges for the shotgun murders of their parents.
For Court TV, Moran also traveled to Bosnia and The Hague, in the Netherlands, to cover the first international war-crimes trial since World War II, that of a Bosnian Serb named Dusko Tadic. In addition, he was Court TV’s correspondent covering the Supreme Court confirmation debates over Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer. Before joining Court TV, he was a reporter and assistant managing editor for Legal Times.
Moran has written for many publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post and The New Republic Magazine — where he began his career in journalism.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=127239
The Duke lacrosse team was innocent.
BUT it was still their fault.
Because their families were wealthy enough to combat a corrupt justice system.
Terry Moran is full of prejudice -- for well-off whites.
Terry Moran is a self-hating liberal.
Precisely.
The lesson to be learned here is if you are a white man and you hire strippers you better make sure they are white. That way if one of them cries rape later at least you won’t have the race hatred industry trying to lynch you.
Don’t feel too sorry for them? Because they hired a stripper? That is legal last time I checked. Maybe you think its sleazy but so is BEING a stripper. The team hired a stripper once, she was a stripper(and a ho) everyday. Jesse Jackson thinks she was noble because she was stripping to put herself through school. Then shouldn’t we admire the team for helping her get an education? I’ll bet frat boys have put more strippers through school than the United Negro College Fund.
The evidence is conclusive; these boys are entirely innocent and Crystal Gail Mangum is a liar, a slut, possibly crazy and has personal hygiene so atrocious that if these boys had actually done what she accused them of then their equipment would have melted off like that scene from Indiana Jones when the Nazis open the Ark of the Covenant.
The guys asked for female strippers, too, so they are obviously homophobic. /s
John Podhoretz takes Terry apart on NRO’s Corner:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTEzMGY2YmVkNzJkOWE4OGExNWUxMzgxZmRiMjIyMjk=
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