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Nifong Issues Apology to Ex-Lacrosse Players
WRAL.com ^ | April 12, 2007 | Associated Press

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 2little2late; duke; dukelax; lacrosse; nifong
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To: TommyDale
I hope the parents of these kids take him for all that he has. I would love to see him with a supermarket carriage full of cans and bottles! I take that back these people have dignity! A despicable human
281 posted on 04/12/2007 6:00:59 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (ID RATHER BE HUNTING WITH DICK THAN DRIVING WITH TED)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Mike Nifong, who insisted on prosecuting three lacrosse players for about a year, even when the case started going south, and still has his job?

Nifong was elected. He either needs to be impeached, recalled, or disqualified. If he is disbarred he will be disqualified from holding that position. Oops. Make that WHEN he is disbarred (which should be soon) he will be disqualified from holding that position.

Put a fork in him. He's done.

282 posted on 04/12/2007 6:26:33 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
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To: Suzy Quzy
Liberalism is a mental disease!

Although liberalism is strongly associated with Liberal Mind Fog Disorder (my term), the correlation is not 100%. There are some people who are politically liberal who know exactly what they're doing.

Nifong clearly has some problems, but I don't think LMFD is among them. He's delusional, but not in the way normally associated with Liberal Mind Fog. People with LMFD often have a moral compass that would be correct if their perceptions matched reality. Nifong knows full well that what he's doing is wrong, and has simply convinced himself he can get away with it. His behavior is clearly delusional, but IMHO not symptomatic of LMFD.

283 posted on 04/12/2007 6:28:13 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: ohioWfan
Actually, it’s more of a moral disease.....

Many people with Liberal Mind Fog Disorder have a sense of right and wrong which would be reasonably well-calibrated if their view of the world actually matched reality. There are some liberals, like Mike Nifong, who have other pathologies besides LMFD; some of those could be characterized as "moral disease". On the other hand, I would hardly consider such people to be representative of most liberals.

284 posted on 04/12/2007 6:33:36 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: Carolinamom
This mealy mouthed press release does not qualify as a real apology

That's because he had the impossible task of apologizing w/out admitting any guilt. Hence no apology.

285 posted on 04/12/2007 6:38:05 PM PDT by PackerBronco
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To: Carolinamom
This mealy mouthed press release does not qualify as a real apology

That's because he had the impossible task of apologizing w/out admitting any guilt. Hence no apology.

286 posted on 04/12/2007 6:38:09 PM PDT by PackerBronco
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To: GOPRaleigh
Doesn't he have to be raked over the coals by the Drive By Media, apologize ten more times on national radio and TV, be suspended and then lose his job and reputation?

Or am I confusing him with some one else?

287 posted on 04/12/2007 6:45:17 PM PDT by HoosierHawk
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To: GOPRaleigh

>> To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect ...

To that extent and that extent alone...

The judgment was reelection. The expendable instruments to achieve the judgment were innocent civilians and the Nation through the course of race baiting.


288 posted on 04/12/2007 6:55:45 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: Kimmers; Peach; SF Republican; prairiebreeze
When this was discussed on our local talk radio they said when they presented the photo lineup to the hook excuse me accuser they only presented photos of the the lacrosse players. They did not throw any photos of known innocents.

Worse than that: they conducted two lineups properly. Since Precious failed to identify anyone, they did the third lineup with the "can't miss" arrangement. The rigged lineup was not an oversight. It was a deliberate effort to conceal Precious' inability to identify anyone.

289 posted on 04/12/2007 6:56:22 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: maggief

Good on Cheshire!


290 posted on 04/12/2007 6:57:18 PM PDT by Alia
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To: GOPRaleigh
REVISIONIST HISTORY BEGINS. The lefties are running around the web trying to clean up evidence of their prior positions in this case. Wendy Murphy's January 2007 column has disappeared - but take a snap-shot of it - because it is still cached in Google.

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:yuzZ3VNj5FMJ:www.wilmingtonjournal.com/News/article/article.asp%3FNewsID%3D75379%26sID%3D12+%22wendy+murphy%22+duke&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=11&gl=us

For your enjoyment:

"For none months we've only heard from the defense in the so-called "Duke Rape Case" - but few people know while the defense is talking up a storm about how the prosecutor has "nothing" the defense has refused to release a thousand pages of the investigation.

Reasonable people want to know what they're hiding."

Reasonable people think that all of Wendy Murphy's old prosecution files should be combed for evidence of gross prosecutorial abuse.

291 posted on 04/12/2007 6:58:46 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: PackerBronco
Hmmmm let's run that through the Semantic Analyzer shall we? NiFong's statement when trimmed down to its essentials reads as follows:

Mine translates it as "I'm sorry I got caught".

292 posted on 04/12/2007 7:01:00 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: GOPRaleigh

What a crock. Save your breath, Nifong. And let the lawsuits begin.


293 posted on 04/12/2007 7:01:24 PM PDT by greccogirl
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To: GOPRaleigh

Hey Nifong.

Go stick a blanking blank up your blank then grab a shot gun, put it in your mouth and blow your stupid blanking blank of a blank head off.


294 posted on 04/12/2007 7:04:32 PM PDT by Malsua
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To: hosepipe

Oh, they are going to, I can assure you. This is REALLY going to cost the taxpayers.


295 posted on 04/12/2007 7:06:04 PM PDT by greccogirl
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To: xsmommy
i heard greta say that what Nifong said may actually hurt his case before the Bar, rather than help it. “to the extent i made errors in judgment...” She said it was a stupid thing to say.

He's sorry that he misjudged what he could get away with.

One thing I've noticed with some liars is that while they can sometimes manage to out and out lie, often they find themselves compelled to try to say things in a fashion they can rationalize as being at least technically true. I'm not sure why that is, but Nifong's statement seems indicative of that phenomenon.

296 posted on 04/12/2007 7:07:03 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: supercat

That’s what other have posted, I’m speechless. No wonder the Seiglemann kid mentioned about police perfidy.


297 posted on 04/12/2007 7:09:14 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (I support the troops AND THE MISSION.)
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To: GOPRaleigh

I say hang the bastard. Make an example of him for other lame ass judges.


298 posted on 04/12/2007 7:21:57 PM PDT by unixfox (The 13th Amendment Abolished Slavery, The 16th Amendment Reinstated It !)
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To: P-Marlowe; Kolokotronis; blue-duncan; xzins; Congressman Billybob
This cannot go unpunished. This kind of behavior undermines the entire criminal justice system. They have to make an example of this guy. He will do hard time.

What statute did Nifong violate? NC Law ain't my bag, baby...

I'd think the most promising approach would be a Federal civil rights prosecution for deprivation of rights under color of law, 18 USC § 242.

299 posted on 04/12/2007 7:22:09 PM PDT by jude24 (Seen in Beijing: "Shangri-La is in you mind, but your Buffalo is not.")
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To: TommyDale

Is this the same Nifong that said AFTER the AG took over the case he would not have done anything differently? I think so.


300 posted on 04/12/2007 7:25:00 PM PDT by tennmountainman
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