I wonder if this particular case may be one that Nifong was referring to when he talked about winning a conviction for the Duke lacrosse case the “old fashioned way.”
No. Nifong was referring to winning a rape case the “old fashioned way.”
In this situation he denied the sexual assault aspect of the case because the DNA evidence didn’t match his selected perp. The prosecutorial misconduct here was lying about the rape and suborning perjury by a cop.