I don't believe you. If you really are a Duke alum you might disagree with the actions of some associated with it but you would not say that you were ashamed to be an alum. If you went to Duke and had a bad experience, you had every opportunity to leave. Are you trolling here or are you so wishy washy as to let others define your experiences for you?
N.Y. law firm badgers DA's faithful aides
BY JOHN STEVENSON, The Herald-Sun
January 20, 2007 11:42 pm
District Attorney Mike Nifong conceded long ago that he had become accustomed to receiving nasty mail about his handling of the Duke lacrosse sex-offense case, but now even his assistants have been badgered with invective by a New York law firm that wants Nifong ousted from his job.
Anton J. Borovina of the Melville, N.Y., firm Borovina and Marullo wrote Durham's assistant prosecutors this month, saying that if they had any sense of decency and honor, they would ask their boss to resign.
Attached was a letter to Nifong himself, calling him a "corrupt and morally bankrupt prosecutor" and a "low-life, a racist and a despicable human being." The letter asked Nifong to resign as district attorney for alleged "fraud and deception" and "gross prosecutorial misconduct" in his work on the lacrosse case, which he recently handed off to two special prosecutors appointed by the state attorney general.
Assistant Durham prosecutors contacted by The Herald-Sun on Friday said they ignored Borovina's message.
"I threw it in the trash," said Jim Dornfried.
Assistant District Attorney Tracey Cline said she did the same.
"I just felt like someone from out of state has no idea what's going on here," she added. "What he has to say is irrelevant to me."
Nifong could not be reached for comment.
Under mounting public and professional pressure, Nifong withdrew from the Duke case this month after getting three former lacrosse players indicted on charges of restraining an exotic dancer in a bathroom and sexually assaulting her during an off-campus party at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd. in mid-March 2006.
The defendants -- Collin Finnerty, Reade Seligmann and David Evans -- originally were charged with kidnapping the woman, raping her and committing another first-degree sex offense.
However, Nifong dismissed the rape allegations in December after the accuser changed her story. Felony kidnapping and sex-offense charges remain.
Critics claim that Nifong rushed to judgment in the case, seeking indictments without sufficient evidence and despite DNA results that did not incriminate any lacrosse players.
The case has now been taken over by two prosecutors from the state Attorney General's Office.
"The press has given much attention to the bizarre antics of your district attorney," lawyer Borovina wrote in his letter to Nifong's assistants.
He said Nifong had obtained the sex-offense indictments "based on flawed, contradictory and noncredible statements made by the alleged victim."
"I can only imagine the shame and embarrassment you must be experiencing," he wrote.
Reached by telephone, Borovina said he became too worked up over the lacrosse incident to remain silent.
He said he wanted Nifong's assistants "to get off their butts, stand up and walk to Mr. Nifong and tell him to step down. Do I think that's going to happen? No. But in my view, he [Nifong] won his election by fraud and by playing the race card. I want him disbarred. I want him to spend time in jail. I want him to think about this for the rest of his life."
The accuser in the lacrosse case is black, the defendants white.
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Yep.
Trolling here since 1998.
Leave Duke? I went for the business education and training - not political indoctrination.