Posted on 03/02/2007 3:19:00 AM PST by ricks_place
Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong and the lead investigators in the Duke lacrosse case have different recollections of the first time they huddled at the Burlington laboratory that provided DNA testing for the prosecution.
Durham police Sgt. Mark Gottlieb and Investigator Benjamin Himan each listed in their case notes that they were at DNA Security on April 10, a week before any indictments in the case.
And Himan noted that Nifong was present at the meeting with Brian Meehan, head of the private lab.
But in a letter to the N.C. State Bar released this week, Nifong said he could not recall the event, although he acknowledged that a meeting occurred.
"I can only report that I have no recollection of that meeting and that I have no documentation or other evidence that I ever attended such a meeting," Nifong said in the Jan. 16 letter.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsobserver.com ...
Pinging the DukeLax list.
This guy is absolutely unbelievable.
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"But in a letter to the N.C. State Bar released this week, Nifong said he could not recall the event, although he acknowledged that a meeting occurred."
You know? If he cannot recall an event as important as this, perhaps he shouldn't be doing something as important as being a prosecutor.
I understand there are a shortage of fry cooks at Mickey D's and all he will have to remember "ding fries are done."
The Hillary strategy.
What an imbecile. There is something seriously wrong with this guy.
(Maybe he's angling for an insanity defense.)
"I know nothing about anything".
> He (Nifong) said he had never before encountered such determined pretrial resistance. "A well-connected and well-financed (but not, I would suggest, well-intentioned) group of individuals -- most of whom are neither in nor from North Carolina, have taken it upon themselves to ensure that this case never reaches trial."
Yep, its a vast right-wing conspiracy.
I have never heard innocence expressed in quite those terms. What a crooked lying.....expeletive.
When, perchance, did wanting to see innocent young men exonerated become "not . . . well-intentioned?"
Cogent comments :
http://www.lewrockwell.com/anderson/anderson172.html
"Mike Nifong and the Sociopathic State"
By William Anderson, Phd. Frostburg State Univ., MD
"First, and most important, the indictments against Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty, and David Evans do not have Michael B. Nifong vs. these defendants, but rather The State of North Carolina vs. the defendants. Because the charges that Nifong originally filed still remain on the books, the State of North Carolina is de facto endorsing Nifong’s conduct.
"To put it another way, the state "justice" system of North Carolina is endorsing sociopathic behavior by one of its own. Yes, the state bar has filed ethics charges against him, but the kidnapping and sexual assault charges against Seligmann, Finnerty, and Evans still remain, despite the fact that they are transparently false. In fact, the special prosecutors have not indicated that they are prepared to drop the charges, and the NAACP and others still are demanding that it go to trial.
"As one who has written about criminal justice issues for many years, I have run into case after case in which prosecutors and the police have lied and conducted entire cases built upon webs of lies."
Help end the railroading of the real three victims in the lacrosse case :
Petition for Justice in the Duke Lacrosse Case :
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/208340697
Now more than ever the voice of the public has to be heard.
P.S. I hope you have other employable skills other than those of falsely accusing others.
"They neither suggested that no assault took place nor that the assault was committed by someone else," Nifong said.
How did this idiot graduate from high school, let alone law school?
He was saying so much to so many media outlets, that I doubt he can get away with this tactic, there's got to be footage or printed material that will trip him up.
If he managed to avoid doing anything to compromise such a defense, than he is more conniving and venal than we ever imagined. And I would expect the defense teams will really unleash on him personally.
Was he laying all those traps, seeding all of that racial hatred knowing where all the legal lines were, and carefully avoiding crossing them, in case the whole mess imploded just like it is doing now????
The Hillary defence.
Having no short term memory is a dodge of a criminal prosecution. In a civil disbarment proceeding it could be taken as a confession as to his unsuitability to practice law.
His then-wife put him through law school and probably did his homework for him.
Then he ran off with somebody else - probably his tutor for the bar exam.
* The lacrosse case arose "during the last few weeks of a hotly-contested Democratic Party primary in which I was seeking to retain my office," he said. "I was not always able to give the case my full attention."
Typical, the election of a democrat takes priority over the rights of the citizenry.
Considering that he was appointed by the governor to fill out a term with the agreement he WOULD NOT SEEK ELECTION to the office, Mr. Nifong is a lying backstabbing political hack
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