I think it happens a lot more than we’d wish to realize. Sadly people get away with crimes far more often than they probably should but as we all also realize, if we do not protect the rights of even the lowliest scumbag then ultimately we protect the rights of no one. Protection of the innocent also sometimes inadvertantly protects the guilty. Bad lawyering and law enforcement protocol makes it even worse of a problem.
As an aside, I wonder whatever ended up happened to Nifong after he was disbarred...
He did one day in jail a few years back for offenses related to the case, got disbarred, and has been sued (I think he declared bankruptcy, not sure on that). We really don’t hear anything about him anymore. He’s an embarassment, and the locals, especially the one-party power structure (black Democrats and their guilty white enablers) here, prefer not to talk about him. When Crystal Mangum got hauled up on charges for stabbing her latest man, oddly enough, nobody went to The Fong and asked him for his expert opinion on the case. Funny, that.
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