Nifong should be disbarred immediately, and then prosecuted himself for what he's done in this case.
If this case is reassigned, the new DA won't have any more evidence than Nifong did. I think Nifong has painted himself into a corner with no way out.
Good!
Now for the disbarment and years behind bars!
That's all you need to know. Nifong stays to the end. A trial is his chance to save himself.
Ping list ping.
So the legal community has figured out this thing isn't going away, and is finally doing the right thing.
About time.
I hope the families of these boys go after nifong if for nothing else to make his life miserable as possible.Maybe send a message to other like minded media whores.
FYI
I admit that urban political monsters can be even worse, but there does seem to be a higher level of scrutiny and oversight in metro areas. Watchdog groups don't spring up for no reason, and rural areas don't seem to have much in the way of those.
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District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, getting a hug Tuesday night from Shamieka Rhinehart, the assistant district attorney, after winning the election. "He's a good man," Ms. Rhinehart said. "I'm so proud of him."
Ted Richardson/The News & Observer
Pride would appear to be goeth-ing at this point.
Please let it be so
Disbarment would be far too light a 'punishment' for this clown.
Where were all these "concerned" DAs during the past 9 months?
They only come forward now, when the case has completely unraveled. North Carolina is the most corrupt legal system and government in America.
Thanks for posting - http://www.ncdistrictattorney.org/ home page for the NC conference of DAs with contact info
http://www.ncdistrictattorney.org/mikenifong/your_district_attorney.htm
A life-long resident of North Carolina, District Attorney Mike Nifong was born in Wilmington, where he graduated from New Hanover High School. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Herbert W. Jackson scholarship, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with an A.B. degree in Political Science in 1971.
Although he had decided on an eventual career in law while still in high school, Nifong worked for his first year after graduation from UNC as a teacher of mathematics and boys’ physical education in Southport. This was followed by a three-year stint as a social worker with the New Hanover County Department of Social Services in Wilmington before he finally enrolled in the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1975.
It was during this period of time that he began his involvement with youth baseball, a passion that has continued for more than three decades.
Upon graduation from the UNC School of Law and admission to the North Carolina Bar in 1978, Nifong sought a position as an Assistant District Attorney on the theory that it would be the best ticket to what he foresaw as a career in litigation. Initially unable to find such a job within the geographic confines of his search area, he volunteered to serve as an unpaid attorney with the District Attorney’s Office in Durham beginning in October 1978. That choice proved to be fortuitous, as District Attorney Dan K. Edwards, Jr., quickly secured funds to pay him on a full-time per diem basis.
When a vacancy finally occurred in a permanent ADA slot in Durham in April, 1979, it was offered to Nifong. He has been there ever since. By June of 1979, he had worked his way up to Superior Court, where he amassed a record of more than three hundred felony jury trials (nearly a quarter of which involved homicides) over the next two decades. In the years since 1999, he has experienced a decrease in courtroom involvement and a corresponding increase in administrative responsibilities and policy development.
In the course of his career as a prosecutor, Nifong has worked for three different District Attorneys, serving as Chief Assistant under both Ronald L. Stephens and James E. Hardin, Jr., both of whom now serve as Superior Court Judges. He was appointed District Attorney for Durham by Governor Mike Easley on April 18, 2005, and was sworn into that position on April 27, 2005.
Mike Nifong lives with his wife Cy Gurney (a regional coordinator for the Guardian ad Litem program), son Bryan (a student at Riverside High School), and dog Tillie (an Australian Shepherd) in a quiet neighborhood in northern Durham County, just across the street from the Eno River State Park. An adult daughter, Sarah, lives in Charlotte.
DA's are very slow to jump on other DAs. This is big.
A "moral" blow? Is that supposed to be something like a "moral victory", as in "maybe he didn't win, but his cause and his intentions were good!"? I guess I should at least be grateful that the "journalist" put her bias out there in the first sentence, thereby sparing me any need to read further.
Toast.
-is there a suicide watch on Nifong yet? This is another heavy blow.