Quest to convict hid a lack of evidence (The Fong's Obituary)

News and Observer ^ | April 14, 2007 | Joe Neff

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First of a five-part series

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THE SERIES
CHAPTER ONE

The unpredictable DA makes unusual decisions.

CHAPTER TWO

Sunday: Nifong believes the accuser’s story. But has he really heard it?

CHAPTER THREE

Monday: The pursuit of DNA yields clues never pursued.

CHAPTER FOUR

Tuesday: An unsung lawyer cracks the code.

CHAPTER FIVE

Wednesday: An overlooked witness reveals new evidence.

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Ping

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Again, many, many editorials and articles this morning.

Link to roundup:

http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=3054

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Brad Bannon and Jim Cooney - two of the defense legal team - posted last night on the LieStoppers board. Link to their comments here:

http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=3047

[Enterprise]

"in April 2010, his annual pension would increase by at least $15,000 a year."

Ya made a bad investment Mikey.

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Money ain’t worth much when you’re in jail, lol...

[MinuteGal]

"A conscientious objector during the Vietnam War........"

How can one be a conscientious objector if one has no conscience?

Leni

[Enterprise]

One of the posters in the link advanced a theory that I had floated several months ago. I had suggested that the defense investigators probably had figured out the movements of Precious and reasonably knew that she had to have DNA on her. When the report came back negative the flag went up, and the defense knew something was wrong.

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Go to the Liestoppers board and read Brad Bannon and Jim Cooney’s comments on this issue.

http://z9.invisionfree.com/LieStoppers_Board/index.php?showtopic=3047&st=0

[6SJ7]

Activists and neighborhood residents had responded with two protests outside the house where three lacrosse captains lived: a candlelight vigil and a raucous affair where protesters banged pots and held signs that read "Castrate" and "Get a Conscience, Not a Lawyer."

I can just bet not a single one of those thugs has apologized. 'Castrate'? Sounds awfully close to advocating lynching or murder. Sue those bastards too.

[MarkT]

While you are absolutely right, look at it this way. If he goes to jail, he gets 3 hots and a cot; additionally, he receives free medical treatment for as long as he is in da joint. Sooooo, he spends a few years (hopefully) in jail, saves his investment income, gets his pension and lives out his remaining shameful days.

[maggief]

He said, ‘I’m getting a million dollars of free advertisements.’

Bastard!

[Enterprise]

"Was there a "mole" who tipped off the defense about the DNA and other aspects of this case? It will be interesting to learn if there was a "Deep Throat" in the case-- either from the Durham PD or the prosecutor's office."

Naw - they were reading FreeRepublic.

[sgtbono2002]

I have worked for people who would sell their mother’s for the next promotion. It aint pretty.

After I retired , a Chief who had retired also ,asked me in conversation one day,” How come the troops never liked me?”

How could I tell him that they never trusted him. That they knew he would sell them out. How could he forget the time he sold me out and ask such a question?

People like Nifong are like horses with blinders on, they only see that next promotion in front of them, their peripheral vison of those they are stepping on is cut off by the blinders of ambition.

Its funny when I go to reunions, I am met and greeted and have many friends, This fellow and those like him are not welcome and mostly dont go. Oh well: He gets a lot more in his pension check than I do, maybe that is compansation.
But I never sold out a friend,or anyone else, and I never kissed anyone’s ass.

[Nip]

Sue them? Not hardly!

I would bring in a Federal task force and have it camp out in Durham for the next two or three years.
They would be headed up by a special prosecutor. Their charge - investigate, document, and then prosecute all hate crimes associated with this case.

If the “average” person of color can be instantly terrorized by a “representation of slavery”; a.k.a. the Confederate Flag and get “protection“ under the law; then the innocent students who had to endure the mobs outside their legal place of residence must be afforded the same protection. You also add the speeches made by the “88” and other members of the Duke facility - persons who made use of their position in the community without any actual knowledge of the facts.

Odds of this happening? NONE.

Proof of statement - Imus and the Rappers.

[Lurker]

It's going to be extremely enjoyable to watch this Nifong pr*** spend the next couple of decades fighting all the civil lawsuits against him.

By the time he gets done paying defense attorneys and civil judgements he's going to be dead broke.

Hopefully he'll have plenty of time to help his attorneys as he'll be in prison with nothing better to do.

What worries me is that this clown really isn't all that much of an aberration. Prosecutors have enormous power and can pretty much ruin anyone who doesn't have access to million dollar defense lawyers.

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[SkyPilot]

All of these gangsters wanted money. Incredible.

"I just need three years and seven months for retirement."(to increase his pension by $15,000)
DA Mike NiFong

"How can I best spin this to my advantage?"
Kim Roberts

"I'm gonna get paid by the white boys."
Crystal Gale Magnum

[sergeantdave]

Nifong, Imus, racial gang warfare in LA, the liberal utopia is unravelling this morning.

[Alia]

Got the hugest smile on my face reading their comments, abb.