In past cases, police officers have screwed something up, and upon being sued or charged criminally, have tried to assert that they didn't know something relevant to the case. The courts are not sympathetic to that view and the words "You knew or should have known" is the best sympathy the police will get. The same type of reasoning is going to be applied to Nifong if he tries to say that his training was not adequate. The courts will tell him "You knew or should have known" about the legal constraints in your own state about making public prejudicial remarks pre-trial. The courts have a philosophy that the "Government" knows all, and Mike Nifong, whether or not he likes it, is part of the "Government."
I cannot forget the OJ Simpson trial and the murder of his wife, and a friend. OJ Was perfectly trained in "media dealing". The MSM has been its own courtroom, for overlong. And despite the laws, the Constitution, legal rulings. If the MSM disagrees, it rules its own decrees, and gets its own people elected to positions of power. Perhaps there's another, far better trained puppet just waiting in Durham, of which the MSM approves.
I suggest the pivotal moment was CGM not quite, exactly, remembering if there was a "penis involved".
Amazing, but not surprising, the MSM and its allies lifted its voice in great outrage at Nifong. Then.
Truly, it was as if hearing one very loud stentorian feminist voice shattering the heavens with "WOT? NO PENIS? Then there's no case! No Great Evil Involved!"
"Nifong shall pay for THIS!".