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.
(Excerpt) Read more at wral.com ...
If he is disbarred, won't he have to resign? Seems a requirement for a DA is that he is in good standing.
Disbar this disgrace.
I'm afraid that Mr. Nifong's future is pretty bleak. The only potential door I can think of that might be open to him is... you know... CNN.
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I'm a bit baffled, too, although it may simply be procedural for the state bar to file for the other issues after the trial takes place or the charges are dropped. So, at this time it's hard to know if this is a signal to Nifong that they aren't going to look at the other violations pertaining to the DNA and the identification line-ups, or if it's the tip of the iceberg. But, as bad as NC has been in managing this case, I'm inclined to not look a gift-horse in the mouth at this time.
You are wrong Bahbah, Txsleuth heard right. The NC bar association can discipline him. That means there are no legal mechanisms other than other NC DA charging Nifong with his crimes.
So rather than a real proceeding with the full force of the people of NC behind it, we get a private organization, the Bar, acting. It is a good first step, but it show the problems in NC that the state does not have a mechanism for reigning in DAs.
It's coming
ah, yes....The MEDIA...they will welcome him with open arms!!
I think you are right..
Hey, we can hope, can't we?
Nice follow up to Hussein 2007!
It's a start, and hopefully not the end. It could be helpful in the change of venue motion.
Cigaret holder with cigaret in mouth. Pince nez in place. Feet together. Plance your hands on your hipps and swiver. A jump to the right.
Do the TIME WARP.
Why the big delay filing against what was obviously a case of prosecutiroal zealousness with attendent misconduct?
If that is the case...then maybe I didn't hear wrong when I also heard that the Grand Jury has NO NOTES or transcript taken or kept...so that there is NO WAY to determine misconduct in front of a Grand Jury in NC either, right?
It ain't getting that far, Jez. The case won't even get to Feb 5 hearing.
Your update at post #71 confirms it is "the accused" not "the accuser."
Nobody that I'm aware of has ever said that the state bar couldn't take action against him professionally, but they do not have the power to prosecute him.
I believe one-time Assistant Attorney General Timothy, or TD, is his brother.
http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/wq/LandPreservationNotebook/statutes/nc/attgenopinions/248taxcredits.htm
March 20, 1996
T. D. Nifong
Assistant Attorney General
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http://www.sboe.state.nc.us/cf_pdf/2006/20061101_50482.pdf
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http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:J86GRwJABYAJ:www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/nc-supreme-court/jun1794/farris+%22timothy+d+nifong%22+%22attorney+general%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2&client=firefox-a
Heard in the Supreme Court 14 March 1994.
ZZMichael F. Easley, Attorney General, by Timothy D.
Nifong, Assistant Attorney General, for the
State-appellant.
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(Nifong Contributions)
T. D. Nifong Professor $125.00
Yes, I read that after I posted here. So probably they will add further charges.
"Nifong freak show" is a good description to me. And I agree, the pressure built up to high.
If they opened a file on him in March, as the article says, I believe Nifong would have been notified. (That's how it works here).
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