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To: NorthFlaRebel
Nifong has been translated, in another article, as asserting no lawyer school gave him proper training on dealing with the media. Ipso, I wouldn't be surprised to see an excuse proferred; that he was requesting the DNA results be "shielded"; that he wished solely to remain focused on "rape". And that revealing that 7 other DNA (none of the Duke Players) were discovered in the results would have been another distraction by the media. And so he *had* to hide them.

It just wouldn't surprise me were this to be played out this way.

46 posted on 01/24/2007 7:14:01 AM PST by Alia
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To: Alia

I don't know what else he could possibly argue, but that's not going to pass with the Bar. He can argue it, but "shielding" DNA results based upon "media distraction" and then claiming he has turned over all evidence helpfull to the defense is a clear violation. And then he still backs himself into the corner when he is asked why he continued the case and brought charges when the DNA totally contradicted the claims of the accuser.


53 posted on 01/24/2007 7:24:08 AM PST by NorthFlaRebel
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To: Alia
"...no lawyer school gave him proper training..."

He'll probably blame it on his first wife. She worked to put him through law school. Once finished, he decided to move on.

58 posted on 01/24/2007 7:29:06 AM PST by ladyjane
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To: Alia
"Nifong has been translated, in another article, as asserting no lawyer school gave him proper training on dealing with the media"

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."

118 posted on 01/24/2007 10:28:33 AM PST by Enterprise (Drop pork bombs on the Islamofascist wankers. Praise the Lord and pass the hammunition.)
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