Posted on 09/01/2007 2:45:08 AM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
DURHAM - Judge W. Osmond Smith III sentenced disbarred District Attorney Mike Nifong to 24 hours in jail for intentionally lying in court, an action designed to serve more as a deterrent than a punishment. Nifong, already stripped of his law license for his misconduct in the Duke lacrosse case, is to report to the Durham County Jail at 9 a.m. Friday and stay behind bars until 9 a.m. Saturday.
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If he's been stripped of his law license, he will never again be in a position to lie to the court like he did in this case, so there's nothing to deter. It's not like he's going to be a practicing attorney again, and certainly not a prosecutor.
What deterrent?
I believe the schadenfreude is a full portion. It reads to me like it will be served next Friday.
The judge may have meant a deterrent to others.
Strictly speaking, you are right. But I judged that the N&O would have been explicit if that was the case.
I noted that the story carries today's date. Usually, they do not post items from the new day until 6 a.m. so I'm not sure what to read into that.
More than anything, I am guessing that Nifong would choose to deny us the real-time schadenfreude by willingly serving his day before we could get on top of it.
I was planning to watch the situation to try to confirm/clarify if my interpretation is accurate.
It makes one wonder if Mr. Nifong will be applying for a job with NCIS .... or if NCIS will join Mr. Nifong in his little red wagon.
Look who isn’t under oath in the court room...
The judge and the lawyers...
Very good points. Keep me up on any development?
Second thought....I believe that you are right.
It was ~already~ past 9 a.m. Friday when the sentence was handed out.
I hate if I jumped the gun, but I could not stand to see him have already put it behind him before we knew that it was happening.
Maybe so, but 24 hours in jail would not be a deterrent to anyone who is so desperate to lie and misrepresent a case in order to win. People do that either because they think they can get away with it or because they don’t think past the lies.
Either way, there is no deterrent. The judge has a lofty view of himself and his own judgments, IMO. Some people think their offal don’t stink.
Sweet, thanks.
Son of a b**** deserves a lot more jail time than that.
Ah well, the civil suits are on their way.
It’s a bunch of code words and mumbo jumbo to the lawyer community.
Corruption in lawyer tongue is: To be “slow dealing with cases”: ie. means selective prosecution based on politics via delaying certain cases, speeding up others, fishing around or outright waiting for bribes.
Judges will never say there is corruption in the system, deep corruption. They will use mumbo jumbo like “deterrent” or “slowness”.
The US justice system is such a catastrophy, if the truth came out, there would not be a single lawyer left alive. I am not joking.
Instead of judgment call and due process of the law at every step, from cops to prosecutors, it’s all corruption and selective prosecution. Heck, who protects the store front is the mafia boss. Now you know why they want to ban certain bullets and guns, so we can be hit and we can pay up for sure our “taxes”.
yup , . .
.. and , talk about offal , .. ..
I hope he was in a kinda “Central Lockup” ,.. but I doubt it, ..
. . . would’ve been nice , for him to be in with some “stank muthaF*CKuhzzzz”
Schadenfreude stand-down/reschedule:
“Nifong will serve his time beginning 9 a.m. September 7 and will end 9 a.m. September 8.”
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=triangle&id=5621847
And by the way, isn’t it strange that Hitler practiced pogroms, ie. the democratic right of a society to kill a bunch of people who wrote books, and then gave himself the power of determining history, who was a jew or a true German and what not... it really were up to him and not “scientific” at all...
and now we see so many liberals joining in political pogroms, asking to sue gun manufacturers as a mean to pogromize gun owners etc... gun taxes etc... but, hey, it does not bother bloomberg when drugs come from terrorists in Afghanistan or in FARC owned territories... that’s no infection getting into NY to him, it’s nothing to sue about... but what can I say, the guy’s a pot smoker.
So there goes the loyalties and paranoias of pot.
What Nifong did is so common, as a mean of pogrom and politics, it indeed is not a deterrent, but a warning to the lawyer community to not be high profile next time. Nifong only screwed up technicaly, but not in spirit according to them.
So the pogrom can continue but not so high profile.
OH, and so ironic that 2 weeks after the Nifong issue, we had the Imus-gate coming out the woodwork... like a media tit for tat of political points... justifying their pogroms for “n headed girls”, like that little prostitute who falsified the suit with the help of Nifong and the gang behind him... still hiding and sneakering.
so , .. he can still be put in a big holding pen ,..
. . . with folks he was pandering to during the runUP to Election Day
I think that means that the judge is saying Nifong is getting away with contempt of court but he's serving one whole day in jail to warn YOU not to do it--just kinda' a Public Service thing, ya' know. Nifong can prolly use it as a tax deduction.
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