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Nifong has more charges against him
Fox News Alert | 1/24/07 | FoxRun

Posted on 01/24/2007 6:38:29 AM PST by FoxRun

Just heard via Fox News Alert that additional charges have been levied against Nifong. Charges are that he failed to disclose and/or hid the DNA evidence (that exonerated the 3 players charged).


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: dukelax; nifong
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To: FoxRun

"Misleading the court" is a serious charge and could cover any number of things, but most likely involves him knowing the DNA evidence(or lack thereof) totally contradicted the claims of the accuser, knew she had not properly identified those he brought charges against but lead the court to believe the complete opposite.


21 posted on 01/24/2007 6:47:28 AM PST by NorthFlaRebel
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To: DvdMom

Story here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246281,00.html


22 posted on 01/24/2007 6:47:48 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: FoxRun

Perp walk time!


23 posted on 01/24/2007 6:48:20 AM PST by NeoCaveman (rats, rats, everwhere rats)
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To: NorthFlaRebel

"Merry Nifmas"?


24 posted on 01/24/2007 6:48:21 AM PST by pabianice
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To: FoxRun

I have to give Mike Savage credit, he called this a railroad job from day 1 of the charges and he was deadcenter.


25 posted on 01/24/2007 6:48:44 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: FoxRun

I have to give Mike Savage credit, he called this a railroad job from day 1 of the charges and he was deadcenter.


26 posted on 01/24/2007 6:48:49 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: Peach

Here it is on youtube. Liefong comes on in his bathrobe at 2:58.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-qwj8RDXA


27 posted on 01/24/2007 6:49:09 AM PST by freespirited (Honk for disbarment of Mike Nifong.)
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To: Rb ver. 2.0

Thanks , for the link :)


28 posted on 01/24/2007 6:49:13 AM PST by DvdMom (Impeach Nifong -)
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To: edcoil
What needs to be added are criminal charges.

What NC statutes has he violated?

29 posted on 01/24/2007 6:50:13 AM PST by Jim Noble
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To: FoxRun; abb; Howlin; maggief; All

Just announced....

Hearing live on FOX......coming up soon


30 posted on 01/24/2007 6:54:09 AM PST by toldyou
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To: FoxRun

URGENT
NC state bar files more ethics charges against Duke lacrosse prosecutor
Eds: ADDS details, background. Will be LED from 10 a.m. scheduling conference. Moving on general news and sports services.
By AARON BEARD
Associated Press Writer
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The state bar has added ethics charges to a complaint filed against the prosecutor who brought sexual assault charges against three Duke lacrosse players, accusing him of withholding DNA evidence and making misleading statements to the court.
The new charges by the North Carolina State Bar against Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong were announced Wednesday and could lead to his removal from the state bar, according to a copy of the updated complaint.
Nifong’s office arranged for a private lab to conduct DNA testing as part of the investigation into allegations three men raped a 28-year-old woman hired to perform as a stripper at a party thrown by the lacrosse team last March.
Those tests uncovered genetic material from several men on the woman’s underwear and body, but none from any lacrosse player. The bar complaint alleges those results weren’t released to defense lawyers in a timely fashion and that Nifong repeatedly said in court he had turned over all evidence that would potentially benefit the defense.
Nifong’s actions constitute a “systematic abuse of prosecutorial discretion ... prejudicial to the administration of justice,” the complaint read.
Nifong was to appear with his attorney at a procedural conference Wednesday morning to discuss scheduling and other administrative details of the ethics complaint.
Last month, the bar charged Nifong with violating four rules of professional conduct by making misleading and inflammatory comments about the athletes under suspicion. Citing the conflict of interest created by the ethics charges, Nifong asked the state attorney general’s office to take over the lacrosse case.
Attorney General Roy Cooper has pledged a thorough review of the remaining charges pending against lacrosse players Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann. While Nifong dropped rape charges in late December after the accuser changed a key detail in her story, they are still charged with sexual offense and kidnapping.
All have strongly maintained their innocence.


31 posted on 01/24/2007 6:54:12 AM PST by Brian Mosely (A government is a body of people -- usually notably ungoverned)
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To: NorthFlaRebel

"Misleading the court" by the District Attorney is about equivalent to you or I committing perjury.


32 posted on 01/24/2007 6:55:37 AM PST by TommyDale (If we don't put a stop to this global warming, we will all be dead in 10,000 years!)
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To: Jim Noble; Congressman Billybob
John

Sometime back you expressed the thought that Nifong would not be prosecuted in court due to the vast protection the law affords a DA. Based on the present set of facts what is your learned opinion on the case against Nifong?
33 posted on 01/24/2007 6:57:02 AM PST by cpdiii (Oil Field Trash and proud of it, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, Iconoclast)
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To: FoxRun
DUKE D.A.
Tune: "Duke of Earl"

Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.

Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke . . .

As facts get in his way
Nothing can stop the Duke D.A.
And even diff'rent DNA
Won't keep him from his crusade

Yes, he, oh he'll get his guy wrong, oh oh
'Cause he is Michael Nifong
And he's the Duke D.A.
So hey yea yea yeah

Rich lacrosse-team white guys
Need a taste of justice to bring them down
So tell some little white lies
That the media will spread around

Yes, he, oh he'll get his guy wrong, oh oh
'Cause he is Michael Nifong
And he's the Duke D.A.
So hey yea yea yeah

Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.

Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke . . .

Yes, he, oh he'll get his guy wrong, oh oh
'Cause he is Michael Nifong
And he's the Duke D.A.
So hey yea yea yeah

Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.

Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke, Duke D.A.
Duke, Duke . . .

35 posted on 01/24/2007 7:00:18 AM PST by Charles Henrickson (The wag tailoring the doggerel)
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To: FoxRun; abb; Howlin; maggief; All

Not sure if it means anything, but CNN just said the hearing will be coming up in about five minutes. They showed the courtroom with Nifong sitting at a table by himself.


36 posted on 01/24/2007 7:00:38 AM PST by toldyou
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To: toldyou

The hearing is supposedly only about procedural and scheduling issues regarding the four original ethics charges. This wont be discussed, per Fox.


37 posted on 01/24/2007 7:04:29 AM PST by NorthFlaRebel
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To: FoxRun
Just heard via Fox News Alert that additional charges have been levied against Nifong.

"Nifong hired Linwood E. Wilson, a gospel singer with limited experience working criminal cases, less than four months before the March 13 lacrosse team party at which an escort service dancer said she was raped, beaten and robbed." source

Perhaps investigators can get him to sing!

38 posted on 01/24/2007 7:04:50 AM PST by F-117A (Mr. Ahtisaari, give Sápmi it's independence! Free the Sami!!!)
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To: FoxRun

Nifong used the blacks to get reelected, same as demokkkrats always do.


39 posted on 01/24/2007 7:06:54 AM PST by weezel
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To: Howlin

Sounds legit but let's wait for a source other than FOX for confirmation.


40 posted on 01/24/2007 7:08:51 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten per cent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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