Posted on 12/28/2006 2:32:59 PM PST by abb
Raleigh — The North Carolina State Bar has filed an ethics complaint against Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong.
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I'd love to see the same type of charges filed against Fitzgerald for the way he has handled the Plame case.
Those are recent revelations. Give it time, although I'm not particularly confident that they will.
The NC state bar and legislature have enabled and protected a legal climate in which behavior as outlandish as Nifong's can occur. Think for a moment what would be happening if these were poor white boys on full scholarships with nowhere near the $1,000,000+ means this case has cost these families so far. Nothing. They'd be assigned a public defender and these boys would probably be on their way to prison with Nifong driving the stage and Mangum riding shotgun.
Good gunslingers are expensive.
Nifong's worst miscalculation was money. These boys have the means to expose him. Others don't. It is just fortunate for everybody (except the boys and their families) that Nifong happened onto this case with an extreme motivation to win an election which brought out what he's really all about. My guess is that most of his work has been shoddy in the other direction - easy and sloppy in the prosecution of real criminals.
Hehehehe.........wish somebody would come up with a cartoon of Nifong in a Wal-Mart vest with a bubble coming out of his mouth saying that.
Fox News talking about the case now. WOO HOO!
How can he be trusted in any job?
I don't think the bar can remove him from the case unless they suspend or disbar him.
This guy should be thrown in jail for gross abuse of authority. It would be even better if the homey's could have a few nights with him.
I agree 100%.
Megan Kendall says no way Nifong drops this case now...
In a more just world, this guy would have been stripped of rank, privelege, and property, and them tarred, feathered, and exiled.
That was a eye opening statement! If he drops the case, he vindicates the criticism and the action of the Bar. His only recourse now will be to continue to fight! WOW!
don't be so quick to celebrate.
This could be a set up to slap him on the wrist so the bar looks like it is really doing its job.
IOW he will get away with it.
The Bar will consider mitigation such as his past service, no prior discipline, etc. etc.
Anything short of a permanent disbarment is a slap on the wrist.
If anything the governor should remove him from office because of the Bar complaint.
Megan said what I have been thinking since this story broke....he is too stubborn to just drop the case now...he's gonna want to prove something....pity.
I still think we should celebrate at Blinco's. Invite the BALD cop, all the other players...You know, a time for everyone to let loose.
The judge is going to make that decision for him. He's off the case within days. Count on it.
I will count on it then!
NO lawyer worth his salt ever puts his client at risk whenever avoidable, and the client is always at risk in a trial.
If this case went to trial in Durham, based on what I have seen of the people of Durham (inasmuch as they elected this guy with so many warts in the case already exposed, especially blacks who put Nifong over the top in votes for obvious reasons), Nifong would stand better than even odds of getting some conviction, at least on the kidnap, and those odds go up with every additional black assigned to that jury.
These lawyers do NOT want this case to go to trial - no way. The concern about the boys' future and their reputations is very legitimate, but a trial is not the way to remedy that. Doing just what they're doing - exposing the stink of this case and Nifong for what they are - AND the exculpatory evidence is the best way to do that. If it is made clear over and over and over that this was a railroad job and it is shown over and over and over how it was manipulated AND Nifong gets in trouble for it, AND Mangum, Duke and Brodhead are forced to eat some, too, that's about as much exoneration as is humanly possible to achieve, and we are watching all that unfold, albeit more slowly than we'd like.
An acquittal has never meant exoneration in any case and it does not remove doubt from the mind of the public the way an exposure of the corruption and the motivation for the corruption does. For one thing, not every tidbit of testimony becomes public knowledge, so an acquittal in and of itself doesn't explain why charges were brought in the first place. Charging and a trial lend legitimacy to the accusation. Dismissal and exposure of corruption diminish the legitimacy of the accusation.
Very well put. Nice.
Wasn't that a wonderful TV Moment?
The pathetic part was that we have known it all along.
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