Posted on 10/16/2007 3:23:08 AM PDT by NCDragon
Raleigh — Former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has asked that the North Carolina Attorney General's Office represent him in a federal lawsuit filed by the three former Duke University lacrosse players he prosecuted last year. "Because I was a constitutional officer of the State of North Carolina at the time that the subject matter of the complaint arose … and because the complaint arises out of the exercise of the duties of that office, I am hereby requesting that you make any arrangements to secure my representation in this matter," Nifong wrote in a letter, dated Oct. 8, to the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts. If not, because of a conflict of interest or "any other disability," the disbarred prosecutor wants private counsel and wants the state to pay for it.
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Nifong Wants State to Represent Him in Civil Case...
the only one who has bigger ones than nifong is another lib/dem....the piaps!!!
Sure. Why not?
Let him waste more of the NC taxpayer’s money on another hopeless cause he knows he cannot win.
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Seriously, isn’t the state being sued also? I doubt Nifong himself has the millions of $ mentioned in the damages.
Sad to say, he was a state judicial employee officer acting under what at the time was the best interests of (him), the State of North Carolina. I think he makes a case to be represented. The B*STARD!
Translation: “I don’t have enough money to hire my own attorney”.
why not call “My cousin Vinny”?
No problemo!
Find the least capable new hire in the NC “lawyer locker”, and put him to Mikey’s service!
Better yet, go find a recent “bottom of the class” newbie who just passed the NC bar after his fourth try, and hire him just for the scumbag.
She said she "Was gonna get paid by the white boys."
The three victims had best be going after the state anyway. That’s where the money is. Suing Nifong is probably only to bolster their case against the state, which I hope they win. I feel sorry for the innocent taxpayers, who did nothing to deserve this, but the only way to prevent such abuses in the future is to make it clear to the brainless bureaucrats that their budgets might suffer from the careless exercise of their own moronity.
What’s your take on this?
What angers me most, is that Nifong got off on only a few minutes served. Can you imagine the time the kids would have served, if he hadn’t been found out.
This bastard deserved to serve five years or so in a federal lockup.
The State can non-scope him—in other words, what he did was beyond the scope of his emplyment...nice try Nifong. You are on your own on this one, boy.
PING!
You’re right. It is absolutely outrageous that his criminal behavior led to no criminal penalties. The fact that he was doing what he did “in the line of duty”...?
What about the two Border Patrol agents railroaded by Bush and Johnny (”The President’s Great Friend”) Sutton? Didn’t they commit their “””crimes””” in the line of duty? Why did they get more than a decade each in prison (when really, they were just doing their jobs) while Nifong, completely perverting his official position, got off with no criminal penalty at all?
Is Nifong also a “close personal friend” of the President?
I agree! That would leave Nifong's only option to be paying for his own defense and a lawsuit against the state alleging he was not acting outside the scope ... and he'd get his legal fees paid only if he wins substantively against the state all the way through the (undoubted) appeal process, which would take years.
Couldn't happen to a more deserving defendant!
The "innocent" taxpayers elected Nifog and the state government that let him run wild. They are, and ought to be held to be, responsible.
The equivalence of someone who murders his parents and then throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan.
YO!
Mikey!
Go pound sand.
Personally, I think he KNOWS he is about to lose everything and is doing everything he can to stave off the inevitable. Basically, he wants the state to foot the bill for his defense so he won’t have to pay for it out of pocket, which will likely leave him broke.
About as classless an act as they come, given what he’s done. And that is hard to top! I imagine the state will tell him to take a hike because he operated outside the scope of his duties as a state employee, broke his oath or some other legalese reason. I doubt seriously he will ever see the day the state will help him out.
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