[Southack]

"Someone in NC needs to go over every single case that Nifong's office has handled to ensure that no innocent people were wrongly convicted of any crime. Nifong himself must be prosecuted because the handling of this case could not possibly be the result of negligence. Any honest lawyer would have dropped these charges long ago due to lack of evidence and witness credibility issues. The only possible explanation for this conduct must be malice."

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.

[Crawdad]

So I'm hesitant to say that "malice" is the only possible explanation.

Don't be.

[maggief]

Joseph B. Cheshire V, a lawyer for one of the lacrosse players, blasted the statement.

“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.

http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/563312.html