and the RATS, take another one in the...............HA ha!!!
Posted on 12/28/2006 2:32:59 PM PST by abb
I believe the state bar had previously said they would not look at this situation until the case was over, ie charges dismissed or a trial completed.
The New Black Panthers are a serious problem for him if he drops the case on his own. He's caught by his own sleaziness.
He put himself first in line for a Hitlery AG nomination.
Add "and cost the accused and their families over $1 million in legal fees" to your list (the link to the article on that is on one of the daily Duke threads posted on or around Friday the 22nd).
I think you're right. This is very interesting!!!!!
They've obviously decided that the Nifong freak show has gone on too long.
I would hope that hate mail is not a factor in this case. That would be a very dangerous trend.
If he did this to my son they would be talking about my actions on Larry King for about 6 months.
I was wondering if they'd all gone off fishing for the last year.
N.C. Bar Files Charges Against Duke D.A.
By AARON BEARD, Associated Press Writer
December 28, 2006 6:00 pm
RALEIGH, N.C. -- The North Carolina bar filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of saying misleading or inflammatory things to the news media about the athletes under suspicion.
The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment.
Among the four rules of professional conduct that District Attorney Mike Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments "that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused."
The charges will be heard by an independent body called the Disciplinary Hearing Commission, made up of both lawyers and non-lawyers.
In a statement, the bar said it opened a case against Nifong in March 30, a little more than two weeks after the party where a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University hired to perform as a stripper said she was raped.
Nifong did not immediately return a call for comment.
Another of the rules Nifong was charged with breaking forbids "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation." The bar said that when DNA testing failed to find any evidence a lacrosse player raped the accuser, Nifong told a reporter the players might have used a condom.
According to the bar, Nifong knew that assertion was misleading, because he had received a report from an emergency room nurse in which the accuser said her attackers did not use a condom.
Defense attorney Joseph Cheshire, who represents one of the three lacrosse players charged with sexual offense and kidnapping, declined to comment.
Last week, Nifong dropped the rape charges against the athletes after the stripper wavered in her story.
URL for this article: http://www.heraldsun.com/firstnews/37-803509.cfm
Good point...I hadn't thought of that.
Maybe it's like the feds getting Capone on tax evasion. After a certain point, you look for whatever charge you can use to legally end the problem.
Indeed he would undoubtedly be her first choice. Assuming he's not a disbarred lawyer by then, and not in jail. Of course, those are resume enhancers for Democrats.
What a scumbucket. The true travesty of justice will be if this guy still has a career when this is all over with.
So, Nifong trashed the reputation of Duke (early applications are down), the NC criminal justice system, and the lives of a number of people just to get re-elected.
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EDWARDS/NIFONG 2008!
Oh, oh he mind get a firm "Don't do that again".
I'm sure he has the fortitude to take such an extreme disciplinary action to be bestowed upon an official though.
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