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).
"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.
Perp walk time!
"Merry Nifmas"?
I have to give Mike Savage credit, he called this a railroad job from day 1 of the charges and he was deadcenter.
I have to give Mike Savage credit, he called this a railroad job from day 1 of the charges and he was deadcenter.
Here it is on youtube. Liefong comes on in his bathrobe at 2:58.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8-qwj8RDXA
Thanks , for the link :)
What NC statutes has he violated?
Just announced....
Hearing live on FOX......coming up soon
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.
"Misleading the court" by the District Attorney is about equivalent to you or I committing perjury.
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 . . .
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.
The hearing is supposedly only about procedural and scheduling issues regarding the four original ethics charges. This wont be discussed, per Fox.
"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!
Nifong used the blacks to get reelected, same as demokkkrats always do.
Sounds legit but let's wait for a source other than FOX for confirmation.
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