Duke Lacrosse Prosecutor Disbarred
District Attorney Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, a disciplinary committee decided Saturday.
Posted on 06/16/2007 8:02:26 PM PDT by Starman417
When will race baiting and liberal "lynch mobs" also face justice?
From the Associated Press: The committee, after deliberating for a little more than an hour, unanimously agreed with the bar on almost every charge - including the most serious allegations - that Nifong's actions involved "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation."
State Bar prosecutor Douglas Brocker told the committee that as Nifong investigated the allegations that a stripper was raped and beaten at a March 2006 party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team, he charged "forward toward condemnation and injustice," weaving a "web of deception that has continued up through this hearing."
"Mr. Nifong did not act as a minister of justice, but as a minister of injustice," Brocker said.
Nifong apologizes..... To an "extent."
The decision of the N.C. disciplinary committee came one day after Mike Nifong promised to resign as Raleigh/Durham Prosecutor in an emotional statement where he also apologized "To the extent my actions have caused pain to the Finnertys and the Seligmanns and the Evanses, I apologize." "To the extent?" You ruined the reputations of these innocent men, stirred up incredible racial hatred and that's your apology? That ranks right up there with another Democrat, Senator Dick Durbin (IL), who apologized halfheartedly after comparing our troops at Gitmo to Nazi and Soviet death camp guards!
Liberal Lynch Mob Unapologetic
Even after making this "apology" Nifong insisted that he believed "something happened in that bathroom." A statement which no doubt will be used by the other vile actors in this saga to avoid any accountability for their actions in fanning the flames of racial hatred.
Despite the fact that the North Carolina Attorney General made an absolute declaration that the Duke Lacrosse players were "Innocent" the lynch mob that feeds off of a culture of vicitimology refuses to let go. Shadee Malaklou, member of the Duke "Women's Center" wrote an op-ed suggesting that despite the outcome of the legal process the Duke Lacrosse players aren't so innocent because, she claims, "very rarely are the Duke Lacrosse players not drinking or partying."
If Shadee (sounds pretty SHADY to me) were just an isolated example that would be one thing. But the culture of victimology has been so successful in demonizing, not just those falsely accused in this case, but the entire white political establishment.
Shadee and others were urged on by radical faculty members to protest, even the point they demanded that the accused Duke players be castrated (photos here). And after the facts were known, one of this "Group of 88" which later became the "Concerned Duke Faculty" declared that "Regardless of the ‘truth’ established in whatever period of time about the incident at the house on N. Buchanan Blvd [Lacrosse players house]., the engine of outcry in this moment has been fueled by the difficult and mundane reality that pre-existed this incident.”
One wonders how much money the Group of 88 faculty (from mostly very liberal academic departments with a penchant for preaching victimhood) squeezed out of Duke University for their programs in racial and cultural political brainwashing? We'll see more such injustices as long as the purveyor's of victimology make such a good living at it.
Stain on Larger Civil Rights Movement
And what about the wider civil rights (victims) activist community? Still no apology from any of them. The damage they have done is extreme. Not just in furthering hatred along racial and class divides, but also to the very cause they claim to represent.
Just think what happens next time a black woman makes an accusation of rape by white men? Will her charge get the serious attention it deserves or will the stain from this monstrous injustice at Duke demean very real racial and sexual injustice?
It's time for those who would deny the ALL the Duke Lacrosse Players their right to the presumption of innocence to be held accountable for their actions. Further action against former Prosecutor Nifong is demanded. But also, require all those who protested against the Lacrosse players, and the faculty who urged them on, to attend mandatory sessions on the rights of accused in our judicial system. For good measure, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson should also attend, and in SILENCE!
>>>What more does he need to run on the liberal ticket.
A $400 hairdo and botax.
“Mike Nifong has qualified himself to run for political office in the democrat party”
They way things are going with the immigration bill I think that he’s qualified for the Senate or the Presidency.
Now sue his pants off. Sue him for every penny he has and will ever have.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer piece of human excrement.
“A $400 hairdo and botax”
He may arrange that. In fact, he could run on the Edwards ticket and get haircuts provided.
“They way things are going with the immigration bill I think that he’s qualified for the Senate or the Presidency”
He’s well qualified now. But, he must take care of himself. When the decision was read today, his face got a beet red. I was afraid he would have a stroke or heart attack. He must stay well so he can pay for his dastardly deeds.
Those demonstrating characters who rushed to judgment should be forced to apologize in public - on t.v.
Why isn’t this SOB going to jail? That’s where he was trying to place these kids he knew were innocent.
Indeed so. For a while I was really feeling sorry these guys as victims. But after seeing the great testimony yesterday I'd trade all that humiliation for that book deal about to happen!
They could deservedly get rich a lot quicker...
The SOB should indeed be in jail!!!!
B U M P
The irony is that, because he won’t be able to practice law, they won’t be able to get as much from him. It would have been to the benefit of the players if he’d been able to keep his license so that they could get big $$$ from his future earnings.
By sheer coincidence last night, I was going through some papers I had saved and found a political cartoon (I believe the cartoonist was Kevin Siers - hard to read his handwriting) from the Charlotte Observer. My paper was dated April 26, 2006 and this damning cartoon is entitled Gothic. My printer isn't working so I can't post it here and the Charlotte Observer won't let me bring it up, but maybe somebody else can find and post it.
I’m curious now if the three guys under suspicion will sue Nifong in civil court. It would seem like that Duke has gone out of its way to fix or correct anything they could...except the 80-odd dimwits on the staff who signed that petition. That is the only big matter I see left to clean up.
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