Yeah, so I've been checking around and it seems that it's fairly common knowledge from people who have followed this (more closely than I) that Crystal was known by the DPD. I just was reading on one of the liestoppers boards about the 60 minutes show. Fascinating reading over there.
New Neff article from the N&O on how Chesshire warned Nifong early on he was violating the ethics cannons:
http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/532643.html
abb: should this become the focus of a new thread? I did a search and did not see it posted yet.