Posted on 01/15/2007 9:50:37 AM PST by freespirited
What is UNFORTUNATE is the fact that he ruined lives and reputations! What Nifong dod was pre-meditated, pure and simple. People's character doesn't change. The man was ALWAYS an assw*pe!
Are you nuts? None of that deserves prison time for rape. Hiring strippers is sleazy, but legal. How did they "ruin" the strippers? Seems like they did that to themselves with their lies and contradictory stories.
Sheesh!
Unfortunately, in the civilian sector (as opposed to military where I prosecuted as a JAG), the checks on this type of thing are slim at best - rogue Federal prosecutors in particular seem to have no problem avoiding trouble after ruining people's lives like this dude did - let me clarify that I am talking here about a small minority of Federal prosecutors. The vast majority serves this country honorably and well. But the system (unlike, again, in the military) is simply not equipped to identify and punish prosecutorial misconduct in the civilian world. Plus the existing mechanism is inadequate and rarely if ever used.
This case will be the exception that proves the rule however. Nifong does not have even a 'fig leaf' to hide behind since its now obvious that he knew, or should have known almost form the beginning that he had no case - yet he continued it, curiously enough about the time he was up for reelection.
Whether he'll be disbarred is an open question - I personally doubt it unless evidence of misconduct is incontrovertible. But he will never prosecute again after he's hit with a suspension of his license, which I think is a more likely outcome, for some period of time.
If evidence shows willfull misconduct as some of the allegations indicate, he might be made an example of.
And that would be a good thing. Political aspirations of a small minority of civilian prosecutors occasionally result in miscarriages of justice like this one, and it will be refreshing to see at least one such prosecutor get his 'just desserts'.
>>Other serial murder cases "He was a good boy, he wouldn't hurt a fly" by family and friends.<<
He always kept his room clean. And ate his vegetables.
If God is just . . . .
On a different note, I wonder if strippers' business in the area is suffering much.
If I were a white dude I would think twice about hiring a stripper to come to my house!
You got it. Just like Miss Nevada, poor choices...and a possible loss of a crown. Nifong got what he deserved, and the LaCrosse Team's parents should have worn them that playing with fire, someone might get burned. Americans need to learn to live responsably, and know that if they hang around the low scum, they might might the news with OJ.
I don't know if you were being sarcastic or not, but the fact that these guys hired a stripper show that they were involved in the seedier side of life. Duke was established as a Christian school but look how far the school has fallen from the standards. Some of us people, born in NC, look at Duke as a school for the rich kids from up north who could not get into the Ivy League schools. So, even though Mike Shoochefski (sic) is able to put out consistent basketball teams, we tend to look at Duke with disdain.
"For Mike Nifong, the missteps of the past 10 months have the potential to end a career"
Well, I would certainly hope so!
you need a reality check.
Nifong was NOT being a prosecutor or a lawyer.
If anything he was only exposing his habits as a prosecutor.
He concealed exculpatory evidence.
He engaged in unethical conduct with regards to the media.
Unthinking comments like yours give conservatives a bad name.
Just because YOU want to persecute adults for you distaste for strippers, in no way excuses nifong from ignoring the 4 and fifth amendments and the constitution in general.
Your comments are why prosecutors feel they have a free pass to urinate on the rights of citizens. Why Nifong felt politically safe to maliciously prosecute these men when he KNEW they were inoccent of the accusations.
i=I
you=your
Where's my coffee?
In a just world, it should end his life.
And the parents so the 'Scottsboro Boys' should have warned them about jumping trains, right?
It's because he never had a case, he just used it to play the race card and get elected. One lie just followed another. Now he's reaping what he sowed and it's well deserved. I'm not a fan of lawsuits but I hope the families sue his pants off.
Who made you the authority over what is decent?
It was very apparent early on that these boys did nothing ILLEGAL. Immoral by YOUR definition perhaps, but not ILLEGAL. On the other hand, it is very apparent that the accusor did do something illegal, and the conduct of Nifong is certainly unethical if not illegal.
The accused have every right to sue, and the accusor and Nifong should spend some time in jail!
His outrageous actions undermine every prosecutor, everywhere. And maybe that's a good thing in that it could bring some folks back to the "presumption of innocence" which is supposed to be guaranteed. I don't know about others, but this has caused me to wonder how many may be in jail because they didn't have the means to fight back the way these families did. I have seen where cops and prosecutors will throw in a felony count on many arrests just as a bargaining chip to get the accused to plead out to a misdemeanor in exchange for dropping the felony. And, for some who are not smart enough to even begin to know how to bargain or lack the funds to hire an attorney to do it for them, the state gets a "freebie" felony conviction which often strips that person of their rights as a citizen for the rest of their lives. And the fewer citizens who can exercise their rights, the greater the power of the government.
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