[ricks_place]

On the advice of counsel, I cannot recall!

[abb]

Pinging the DukeLax list.

[Beckwith]

I have no recollection

Standard dhimmicratic tactic.

[DOGEY]

The Hillary strategy.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

What an imbecile. There is something seriously wrong with this guy.

(Maybe he's angling for an insanity defense.)

[baltoga]

"I know nothing about anything".

[jim_trent]

> 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.

[AZRepublican]

But Nifong said he did not see the test results as necessarily favorable to the defense. "They neither suggested that no assault took place nor that the assault was committed by someone else," Nifong said.

Uh, its not up to you Mr. Nifong to suggest what, if any, is the significance of the evidence.

P.S. I hope you have other employable skills other than those of falsely accusing others.

[freespirited]

But Nifong said he did not see the [DNA] test results as necessarily favorable to the defense.

"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?

[pinz-n-needlez]

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????

[Unicorn]

The Hillary defence.

[Robe]

He offered several explanations for some of the problems that have arisen:

* 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

[SkyPilot]

But I do believe that this is a battle. I mean, look at the very people who are involved in this—they have popped up in other settings. This is—the great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband me since the day he announced for presidentI indicted the lacrosse hooligans."

[Enterprise]

As I understand his "defense," it boils down to a few elements.

1. I don't recall a meeting.

2. I was distracted and couldn't give my full attention to the case.

3. Other people who were helping me weren't reading the material, they were just copying it. It's their fault, not mine! Oh, I know I was the lead investigator, but why do I have to do everything?

4. Never, and I mean NEVER, did I expect such a spirited response pre-trial. It's simply not fair to the prosecution when people have the means and the will to fight for their freedom.

5. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know that the test results didn't implicate any of the defendants. However, in my professional opinion as a prosecutor, that doesn't mean it was favorable to the defense, so I didn't think it was necessary to let them know about it.

[freeangel]

"I cannot recall"

Worked for the clintons every time!

[Texas Mom]

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."

Yes, we know. He was more concerned about his reelection than getting to the bottom of the case.

[Bubba_Leroy]

"For me, this case was an eyewitness identification case, one in which I was looking for DNA evidence that either corroborated that identification or refuted it," Nifong said.

OK, so what DNA evidence would have refuted it? Perhaps finding DNA of multiple different men in each of her orifices, none of which matched any of the men that she identified?

I'm having a hard time thinking of any way that DNA evidence could have refuted the identification any more definitively than that.

[Bubba_Leroy]

On the advice of counsel, I cannot recall!

You.. can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes! You can be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes! You say.. "Steve.. how can I be a millionaire.. and never pay taxes?" First.. get a million dollars.

Now.. you say, "Steve.. what do I say to the tax man when he comes to my door and says, 'You.. have never paid taxes'?" Two simple words. Two simple words in the English language: "I forgot!"

How many times do we let ourselves get into terrible situations because we don't say "I forgot"? Let's say you're on trial for armed robbery. You say to the judge, "I forgot armed robbery was illegal."

Let's suppose he says back to you, "You have committed a foul crime. you have stolen hundreds and thousands of dollars from people at random, and you say, 'I forgot'?" Two simple words: Excuuuuuse me!!"

Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live (1977)

[SmoothTalker]

Disbarment is too lenient a punishment for this scumbag. He deserves hard time. You can bet that his behavior in the Lax case is not isolated. There could be dozens more people railroaded by Nifong.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Seeing as how Nifong has no recall of a session that everyone else remembers well, doesn't the voters have a right to recall Nifong?

[PJ-Comix]

"I have no recollection of the most pivotal event in my life."