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Duh...ya think????????????????
Posted on 01/15/2007 9:50:37 AM PST by freespirited
So it's OK that this stripper FALSLEY accused them of a crime and Nifong prosecuted these young men for NOTHING?
Just because you're jealous that these guys have a life and you don't, doesn't give you license to accuse them of rape.
If I stay up till 1am on FR am I "indecent?"
I agree. This is the worst of the worst. He did it only for the politics of the situation. She now changed the timeline to destroy one of the men's defense. He deserves to lose his position as DA. This situation only hurts legitimate cases........
Flash Bunny, POOR choices, bring bad consequences. It's LIFE. If you hang out with the rift-raft, don't look for my pity or sympathy if your raft goes over the falls. Kids do make mistakes,they learn. I bet they have grown up quite a bit. Nifong was doing his job, poorly, but the people smelled a racial rat in the courthouse, and they wanted blood. Go join the Salvation Army and give food out at midnight to druggies, but don't hire a stripper unless you want your name smeared on on the front page of America. It's LIFE!
Nifong is probably judgment proof, that is even if these kids get a judgment against him, he probably has so few assets that the exemptions that he gets will shield those.
When this case came along, Nifong was trailing in the polls for the Democrat nomination. He was borrowing money from his friends to finance his campaign. I seriously doubt that his financial condition has improved to the point that any judgment is collectable against him, much less one for the tens of thousands of dollars that these kids have tied up in just their legal bills.
I do believe that the State of North Carolina may face some liability under the provisions of a federal statute giving individuals a right to sue people and governments for violations of their constitutional rights under color of state law. I belive that the reference to that statute of 42 U.S.C. sec. 1983, but I could be mistaken on that citation.
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 was revealed on last night's "60 Minutes" report that she is/was on the drug Depakote which is prescribed "in the UK and US for the treatment of the manic episodes of bipolar disorder, and increasingly taken long-term for prevention of both manic and depressive phases of bipolar disorder, especially the rapid-cycling variant."
Doesn't he get a pass on the injustice thing or at least a get outta jail free card?
SARCASM ALERT
I don't think there's the least doubt in the world that Nifong is guilty of a criminal offense.
The lab employee testified under oath that Nifong knew about the DNA test results and deliberately told him to suppress that evidence and not give it to the defense. That's prima facie evidence that a deliberate crime was committed.
Moreover, shortly before this testimony was given, Nifong assured the judge that he knew nothing about this exculpatory evidence. As the prosecuting attorney he was not put under oath when he made this statement, but as an officer of the court giving evidence he was surely under an obligation to tell the truth. Although not technically perjury, it was surely a crime, too.
Finally, his motives for committing these crimes are clear. He was willing to violate his basic duties as a prosecutor in order to get re-elected. He put his career ambitions before his solemn duties.
As for this being an unprecedented first, I thought I read somewhere that his superiors took him off prosecutorial duties earlier in his career, and he only recently returned to them. I suspect there is a pattern of misconduct that was probably systematic. These abuses of his office didn't just come out of nowhere all of a sudden.
Somewhere somehow, these kids and their families should be awarded 10s of millions of dollars for all that they have had to go through.
So the guy who wasn't at the party while this was all happening,but instead was at an ATM machine and then back at his dorm, deserved to have his reputation ruined and wasted thousands of dollars on a lawyer?
Either you're trolling or you're one seriously messed up individual.
According to a professor who has been following the case closely, each family has been spending 80K a month on legal fees since last March. At that rate, they are approaching the million dollar mark per family.
It will end his career.
Until he needed to get re-elected.
The minute it's revoked he'll get offers to be a Law Professor at UC Berkeley, U of W (Madison) and Cornell in Ithaca - the City of Evil. Plus if he chooses Berkeley, he can room with domestic terrorist Angela Davis.
Heck they may even waive tenure requirements to get him.
Reimbursement just doesn't cut it. They deserve their TON of flesh, too.
Everyone involved in this, (Mangum, Nifong, Duke, the Duke prez, The 88 professors, etc...), should be legally, financially, and socially ruined forever and reduced to the condition of bag ladies.
I don't know myself but it seems like it would carry criminal charges.
you got that righ, Red Dog. Gettem' all.
Put the bong down.
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