Good luck with all that....
The Sunday N&O part two of the series article is up:
http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/564477.html
“Behind the bold words, a case starts to unravel
District Attorney Mike Nifong brusquely rejects defense lawyers’ overtures and an offer to share information. The
emerging evidence does not support his certainty
Joseph Neff, Staff Writer
During the first half of April 2006, lawyers for Duke lacrosse players often sat around a large table in Bill Thomas’ second-floor conference room, a stone’s throw from the Durham County courthouse. Conversation invariably turned to which players would be indicted. “We guessed it would be the three residents of the house,” Thomas said. “But we really had no clue. None.”
The lawyers thought District Attorney Mike Nifong was unpredictable. Stunned by his public statements, which grew more strident, defense lawyer Joseph B. Cheshire V tried to talk with the prosecutor.Cheshire didn’t know that Nifong harbored a visceral dislike for him; all four of Cheshire’s namesakes were lawyers, and Nifong often referred to Cheshire sneeringly as “Joseph Blount Cheshire the Fifth.”
Cheshire wasn’t prepared for the prosecutor’s response to his request to talk, which Nifong’s paralegal dictated to Cheshire’s paralegal: Nifong “is not going to talk with any attorneys while there have been no charges filed, and ... if Joe Cheshire feels that his client should be charged, then he should tell the police department.””