Darryl Howard and the rampaging prosecutor: Durham learns little from Duke lacrosse debacle

The Washington Post ^ | March 20, 2014 | Radley Balko

[Pollster1]

Nifong is enjoying in excess of $100,000 a year in pension funds, and his wife gets an excellent salary working for the state.

I'm not generally a fan of civil lawsuits, and certainly not of strict liability, but this situation is entirely different from the numerous frivolous lawsuits. Nifong maliciously abused his power, and he should be held personally liable in court. His victims should split his entire pension, forever (he won't need it in prison, where he belongs, and he owes it to them to make partial restitution for his evil actions), plus whatever portion the court decides is appropriate from his savings and his wife's salary, and an appropriate amount from the government that was negligent in keeping him in power.

[bigdaddy45]

Its the “no physical evidence” part that worries me. And eyewitnesses are notoriously unreliable.

[Ready4Freddy]

From filing:

“Faced with the news that Howard was not the source of the sperm, the State claimed that the homicides did not involve a sexual assault and continued to prosecute the case against Howard.”

Sound like anyone we know, abb?

[robowombat]

‘This guy was railroaded.’
And there is a clear pattern of generalized prosecutorial misconduct over a long period of time. Even the rather flaky novelist Peterson seems to have been a victim of a vendetta and he was certainly crucified by programs like 48 hours.

[jocon307]

“...there is no statute of limitations in North Carolina...”

For anything?