Posted on 04/12/2007 1:00:49 PM PDT by GOPRaleigh
Nifong Issues Apology to Ex-Lacrosse Players
Posted: 2 minutes ago
Durham — The local prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized Thursday, acknowledging the decision of state prosecutors to dismiss all charges against them was correct.
"To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused," Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said in a statement.
I agree with everything that you say above except for your last word. As we've cleaned up our state, we've found plenty of (now ex) government officials who wanted bribes for various government favors.
So I see it as perhaps no accident that 3 rich boys were targeted in another state.
And there are other potential explanations (e.g. political agenda). So I'm hesitant to say that "malice" is the only possible explanation.
And he hopes the new DA remedies any injustice; the lawsuits are going to be delicious.
This is PURE MANURE
HE KNOWINGLY made wrong decesions on this case. He KNOWINGLY considered these rich boys expendable to his own personal career gain.
His actions were intentional and calculated and now he is trying to do CYA to protect his license to practice law.
If this was a private lawyer an emergency disbarment would have already happened.
How many OTHER people has this prosecutor railroaded?
This case demonstrates the Nifong RULE not the exception.
But would the alumni and other donors withhold funds because 88 faculty members were complicit in lynching innocent young men?
It depends on the character of their donors, and whether or not they have any moral standards whatsoever.
No matter how I felt about my education, or my alma mater, I would never give another penny until the 88 were severely punished.
I don't see that happening.
Duke's reputation, however, may be permanently damaged unless there is a serious effort to rectify the wrongs that have been done.
I don't see that happening either. These are, after all, liberals. They have no ethics on which to base those kinds of decisions.
How can you tell right from wrong when the institutions in which you were educated don't admit that such a concept exists?
I read it. NAUSEATING!
Don't be.
“This is not an apology,” Cheshire said. “This is another attempt by Mr. Nifong at revisionist history, the same thing he has done with the facts throughout this entire case.”
Nifong disputed Cooper’s assessment of him as a “rogue” prosecutor.
“The fact that I instead chose to seek that review should in and of itself call into question the characterizations of this prosecution as ‘rogue’ and ‘unchecked,’” he wrote.
He destroyed their lives for political gain, and he thinks that's going to suffice? Hopefully, they will see him in jail, after they sue him and take everything he has!
Makes you wonder about all the other local DAs across the US that are sheltered under the "Old Boy" network.
The local radio host is a lawyer. He said that it does look like you are guilty when you lawyer up right away but you need to do this so your rights are protected. I guess these men knew they did nothing wrong and were cooperative and look what happened to them, maybe if that sought legal coundil right away things would have been different. Speculation of course.
Mmmm. I love the smell of burnt Fong in the morning. It smells like...well, it smells like crap, actually.
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He is immune from Civil Actions arising from his conduct in Office.
Any of the low life tenured creeps offer up a "my bad" yet?
He has no business apologizing for his incorrect judgments. That's part of his job, and his correctness is for the courts to decide.
What he should apologize for is the way he abused his office, withholding exculpatory evidence, and for the way he smeared the defendants in the media. But he very carefully did not apologize for his actual wrongdoing.
From the very beginning, all of the players stood together and said nothing happened. It would have been so easy with all the pressure on them for just one of the 47 (?) players to break.
When none of them did, I figured they were innocent.
OT:
Imus has just been fired from his radio gig as well. THey’re gunning for Rush next and already have a list of things he’s said that some people think are racist comments.
Ann Counter is right: We need a rule book on what’s permitted and what isn’t.
Right now I’d settle for an “oops”.
That’s true. When Mangum was brought in to view a photo lineup, all of the photos she viewed were taken from the forty-six white members of the Duke men’s lacrosse team. (The one black member was not included, since Mangum adamantly identified her attackers as white.)
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the AG had access to evidence he didn’t have?
What a self-serving POS he is.
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