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Lacrosse case could end Nifong's career, experts say
Winston-Salem Journal ^ | 1/15/07 | AP

Posted on 01/15/2007 9:50:37 AM PST by freespirited

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21 posted on 01/15/2007 9:57:52 AM PST by monkapotamus
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To: AD from SpringBay
Nifong should be in jail

my thought as well.

22 posted on 01/15/2007 9:57:54 AM PST by Michael.SF. (It's time our lawmakers paid more attention to their responsibilities, and less to their privileges.)
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To: rambo316

YEAH, sue off their pants! UP with the youth culture concept that poor choices have no consequence. HIRE strippers and leave them ruined, milk the system, get drunk, go free, do NOT pay $200 and don't go to jail. It's the modern thing. No poor choices and if you PAY the fiddler, then Dance! Decent people go to bed earlier and stay away from haunts.


23 posted on 01/15/2007 9:58:12 AM PST by rovenstinez
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To: freespirited

DUH you think? He should be working at legal aid for $45,000/ year - that's if he gets out of this with his license. But hey he got reelected and that is what it's all about right?


24 posted on 01/15/2007 9:59:48 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ (Never corner anything meaner than you. NSDQ)
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To: AD from SpringBay
As I understand it, those cases that Nifong has been working on, and the cases that this lab are involved in are all in jeopardy.
25 posted on 01/15/2007 10:00:10 AM PST by mware (By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
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To: freespirited

Career-ending? Ya think? The man's displayed an incredible lack of a sense of judgement, to say the least. That's career-ending in and of itself.


26 posted on 01/15/2007 10:00:32 AM PST by Clara Lou
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To: freespirited

>>He had a career - a long career, a reputation of being an honest and fair prosecutor - and for some reason, his conduct in this case was inconsistent with that. <<

For some reason?!

The doctor that delivered me in 1954 lost his legal ability to prescribe drugs in the mid 1980's for "some reason".

The reason was that he was drugging up my grandmother and other people in convolescent homes to the point of virtual unconsciousness for years.

My grandmother got much better...


27 posted on 01/15/2007 10:01:12 AM PST by RobRoy (Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in 1938.)
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To: SmoothTalker

O.K. I stand corrected but you probably get my point. These kids and their families are being imprisoned by our Injustice system and they should be reimburrsed for what they have gone through. This has ruined three young men's lives and Nifong and the racist hucksters should have to pay.


28 posted on 01/15/2007 10:02:39 AM PST by rambo316 (The Blessed Mother is Queen of heaven and earth.)
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To: beltfed308

IS that a crime? Inquiring minds want to know.


29 posted on 01/15/2007 10:02:59 AM PST by tioga
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To: rovenstinez

No one has said that the boys were right to hire a stripper. But hiring a stripper and being accused of rape and kidnapping are two very different things. It's like not putting money in the parking meter and being charged with arson.


30 posted on 01/15/2007 10:03:34 AM PST by trimom
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To: freespirited
If N.C. Attorney General Roy Cooper dismisses the case against Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann...their families might try to file a civil lawsuit against Nifong.

My wish is to see those boys ride out of town in shiny new Ferraris, waving goodbye to the town with their middle fingers.

31 posted on 01/15/2007 10:04:02 AM PST by randog (What the...?!)
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To: DustyMoment

It should also end the careers of many administrators and faculty members at Duke..


32 posted on 01/15/2007 10:04:23 AM PST by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: freespirited

Lacrosse case could end Nifong's career, experts say


Let's hope and pray it does. We do not need someone like him in power. Everything he did was to advance his own career at the expense of innocent people.


33 posted on 01/15/2007 10:04:36 AM PST by cubreporter (I trust Rush. He has done more for this country than we will ever know. Thanks, Rush!)
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To: beltfed308
For withholding exculpatory evidence Nifong should be in prison. Not just lose his cushy job.

Precisely..I mean didn't any of these prosecutors watch "My Cousin Vinnie"?

..and certainly Law & Order would give 'em a clue.

Teaches you all the basic rules about disclosure and exculpatory evidence :)

34 posted on 01/15/2007 10:05:18 AM PST by evad
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To: SmoothTalker
[quote]and their families sue the pants off of Nifong and the state of NC.[/quote]

Don't forget the broad that started the whole mess. She should be sued into oblivion too.

35 posted on 01/15/2007 10:05:19 AM PST by Newfy
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To: rambo316

... let me just add that if this were a white stripper, there would have been no story. That is a fact.


36 posted on 01/15/2007 10:05:28 AM PST by rambo316 (The Blessed Mother is Queen of heaven and earth.)
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To: rovenstinez

Boy you are one twisted individual. Blame the victims, eh?


37 posted on 01/15/2007 10:05:31 AM PST by flashbunny (If the founding fathers were alive today, they'd be buying feathers and boiling tar.)
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To: freespirited
"You don't easily recover from something like this," said James Coleman, a law professor at Duke University and a frequent Nifong critic. "That's what's so unfortunate about this. He had a career - a long career, a reputation of being an honest and fair prosecutor - and for some reason, his conduct in this case was inconsistent with that.

I believe a review of past cases he ran is in ordered. If he did this for a high profile case, how many other people got Nifonged?

38 posted on 01/15/2007 10:06:24 AM PST by PogySailor (Media bias? What media bias)
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To: freespirited

"Joseph Kennedy, a law professor at the University of North Carolina, said that the accuser's Dec. 21 interview with an investigator, in which she changed several key details in her description of the attack, is also a concern.

Among the changes, the accuser offered a new timeline that put the attack outside of the apparent alibi window established by Seligmann's attorneys. She also said she could no longer be sure that she was penetrated vaginally by a penis, which could have helped Nifong explain to a jury why there was no DNA evidence.

"It's just troubling that ... nine months after the event, there's an interview and the interview reveals this fact, which minimizes the importance of the evidence they didn't turn over," Kennedy said. "

This analysis leaves me almost speechless. Nevermind that she's changed her story countless times. Nevermind that her credibility is totally tanked. Kennedy's opinion is that these changes strengthen Nifong's case . . . if only he had turned over the lab evidence more quickly.

Typical lib professor!


39 posted on 01/15/2007 10:07:03 AM PST by rightazrain ("Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. " -- Ernest Hemingway)
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To: freespirited

I should hope so. A clear case of prosecutorial misconduct.


40 posted on 01/15/2007 10:07:40 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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