[JamesP81]

This case really bothers me. I’ve always been on the side of the prosecution, feeling most defense lawyers are nothing more then pond scum. However, I never supported a prosecutor who knowingly went after someone for their own political gain or when they knew, and the evidence bore out, a person was innocent.

Yeah, well I'm not. My uncle is an attorney, used to be a cop. So he's been on both sides of the line, as it were. Just from talking with him, it's abundantly clear to me that the average DA makes the average criminal defense attorney look like an Amish preacher. I would have an attorney at my house for dinner as long as he was polite, but I don't know that I'd even let a DA in my front door. Or on my lawn, for that matter.

The truth is that Nifong has done nothing that DAs everywhere don't do anyway. The difference is that he jumped on some people who had the resources to make him pay. If he had gone after poor white kids, they'd already be in prison with 20 year sentences.

As a result, I find it's a safe policy to generally assume that DAs are lying any time they're talking until they prove otherwise.

[TheSpottedOwl]

The truth is that Nifong has done nothing that DAs everywhere don't do anyway. The difference is that he jumped on some people who had the resources to make him pay. If he had gone after poor white kids, they'd already be in prison with 20 year sentences.

Thank you!!!! I bow in your general direction. All these bums care about is getting reelected. They are willing to drag out proceedings until their victim runs out of money, then the victim has to plea bargain for a crime that likely didn't happen. All this does is burnish the DA's "I'm tough on crime, so reelect my happy ass" reason for wasting oxygen.

Thank God those young men had money to fight this, or they would be in prison.

If I found a DA on my front lawn, I'd release the cats, since we don't have a dog.