I agree Nifong deserves to have his claims blow up in his face. And maybe I should have said Nifong will claim all these mitigating factors to his attorney who will not say such stupid things on his behalf in the hearing?
But really, I doubt we ever have a hearing. The next two things to happen in this situation in some order is for the charges to be dropped and Nifong to cop his plea. Nifong can not afford to have a public hearing about his behavior. He is nailed dead to right.
As someone predicted here long ago, Nifong is going take a disability retirement, slink away, default on civil liability and hope that no federal criminal charges come his way. He is truly insane so he is more apt to claim his cancer is back or some other physical malady than mental. [The crazy seemingly never claim to be crazy and fight tooth and nail against being labeled crazy.] But he will need a rationalization that fighting this is not worth it. And since he will be "sick" he will give up his law license since he can't use it anyway. And certainly if he gets good advice at all, it has to be to avoid a losing public hearing that will further damage him.