Duke Prosecutor Nifong To Be Disbarred

AP ^ | 6/16/07 | Staff

[El Gran Salseron]

Add the lying ho who started all of this mess in the first place.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

If you have enough real dirt in your background to prevent you from running, then you’re just out of luck.

Personally, I don’t care about a few youthful indiscretions if someone has proven their mettle otherwise. If it takes looking over youthful idiocy to get good and decent people into office then I suggest we all learn to let bygones be bygones.

The media will slam and smear people even if they have to make things up, Rathergate was more than enough proof of that. We’re just going to have to grow thicker skins and tell the media to bugger off.

Otherwise we’re going to get keep getting greedy, power mad liars who will keep running the country into the ground.

[omnivore]

My guess is, he'll never spend a day in jail or pay a cent in damages. The legal mafia takes care of its own better than any other mafia on earth, no matter how rotten or depraved an individual is. He's protected from personal liability for his evil by claiming that what he did was acting "under color of bureaucracy" or "under color of law" or some other BS. It's the standard defense for whenever a Person In Government personally screws somebody over. It's a "don't blame me personally, I was just doing my (government) job" defense. Usually works, too.

If the legal community doesn't start making some slight effort to clean up or rein in the human debris in its own profession, eventually people will think they're all bad. (/Sarc.) My guess is, they just don't care. If they did, their profession would have been run very differently for, oh, the past hundred years anyway.

[U S Army EOD]

White men can’t dance.

[xzins]

What do y’all think?

Could they have done more than disbar him? What further penalty should there be?

How is this different than what Libby purportedly is in jail for: lying to a grand jury?

[omnivore]

...railroaded ... for a crime he didn't commit.../...changed my view of the criminal justice system...

A lot of libertarians are former Republicans who have learned how the legal system really works and can no longer stomach the "big government conservative" position of reflexively defending the existing legal regime. I think that's why there is a bit of a correlation between lawyers and libertarianism (leading libertarians are often lawyers); they're the ones who, having seen the system from the inside, are disgusted by it.

[cookiedough]

I hope so. I would like to see one of the crooked BATF agents busted, along with the crooked judges and federal prosecutors they have in their pockets.

[Bommer]

Any chance he can be sued for like say... $10 million?

Any change Nifong HAS $10 million? Might as well sue him for a couple million more for lap dances cuz they won't see a dime from him. Now Duke on the other hand.....

[AndyJackson]

Trust me, the party is over.

This party began when boomers were teenagers. The next party is going to be when the last nail is nailed in the last coffin of the world's most destructive generation. It is not so funny that this is the generation that began with the view that the system is corrupt and end, holding the levers of power, with the view that you must trust the system. What about the Constitution, god-given morality and judgment based upon leading a useful life.

[B.O. Plenty]

We’re just going to have to grow thicker skins and tell the media to bugger off

Absolutely....I have been praying for even one of our elected leaders to do this....just ridicule stupid questions from the media...stop being so PC ..it is getting embarassing....past embarrasing...getting dangerous, like getting a lot of us killed. The muslims have promised to kill us all, and I, for one, believe them.

The greedy, power mad liers that we are saddled with at the present don't seem to believe that the U.S. is in grave danger from mohammadians...so will we have the right to capture them and take them to Gitmo when the muslim attacks finally come?

I guess my point of all of this is that I hold out a small hope that decent people of honor and courage will choose to risk the political rectal exam that is our political process today.

Just witness the people that the 'rats have trotted out to run for pres. so far...all socalist/communists running the gammet from far left to lunatic left....

I don't even have confidence that our one man-one vote system will be descerning or even caring enough to tell the good guys from the bad guys....

more furniture may be looted from the White House.

[TheSpottedOwl]

That’s her name! Thank you :) I haven’t watched soaps in a long time, and I’m getting bad at names. She’s a very talented actress, and I can’t imagine how she felt through her son’s ordeal.

[American1776]

What goes around comes around...Always!

[Tymesup]

If Nifong is disbarred, it will give him something in common with Mr. Clinton.

[Ron H.]

And the accuser herself needs to be fully prosecuted for her false allegations. She started the whole mess.

[Oystir]

I have heard the asking price starts at 20 mil. After seeing Mr. Evans testimony and a bit of Mrs. Seigleman’s there ain’t going to be a trial over civil damages.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I never made the connection between libertarians and lawyers. It would make sense, especially for the few remaining lawyers intent on upholding the law as our founders intended.

[fhayek]

In my opinion, America was founded precisely because of people like Mike Nifong. Heavy handed prosecution for political reasons was one of the reasons we split from England.

[dread78645]

Let’s not forget about the LaCrosse coach that lost his job. I hope he sues Duke BIGTIME!

I think he's already settled.

(and it's lacrosse --the sport, not LaCrosse --a town in Wisconsin)

[TheSpottedOwl]

Oh hoho, the BATF. Stormtroopers of the Republic.

[HiTech RedNeck]

I suppose it’s only your kind of ‘karma’ when a jaywalker gets killed by the getaway car of some bank robbers.