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Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: I am sorry. Surely by now you know I am sorry. I am writing these words now, and in this form, as a bookend to 13 months of Duke lacrosse coverage, my role in which started with a March 27 column that began: "Members of the men's Duke lacrosse team: You know. We know you know." That was when Durham police and District Attorney Mike Nifong were describing a "wall of silence" among the men who attended the now-vaunted lacrosse party at 610 Buchanan Blvd. Nifong, now described by the state attorney general...

America's news media, an amoral university, an opportunistic district attorney, and a police department that seems to have collaborated in framing innocent students all combined to nearly destroy the lives of three innocent young men -- members of the Duke University lacrosse team. The attorney general of North Carolina announced that all charges -- of rape, sexual assault and whatever other charges a mendacious young woman got Mike Nifong to bring against the Duke lacrosse team players -- were being dropped. He pronounced the students "innocent," not merely "not guilty." And the attorney general also declared Nifong a "rogue prosecutor."...

It's a sad day for the KOmmies and much of the rest of the Left. The Duke Lacrosse players have been completely exonerated by the North Carolina Attorney General. Much of the Left, especially those in the academia, had a lot at stake in the guilt of those Lacrosse players. Rich white privileged boys who MUST be guilty. Except they weren't despite the accusations of guilt by the Left including those infamous 88 Duke profs. Now the shoe is on the other foot and the weight of justice is about to come down hard on corrupt D.A., Mike Nifong....

DURHAM - District Attorney Mike Nifong will have an opportunity April 13 to tell an N.C. State Bar panel why he thinks part of the case against him should be dropped. The hearing, before the Disciplinary Hearing Committee, is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the third-floor courtroom of the N.C. Bar Building, 208 Fayetteville St., Raleigh. The bar has charged Nifong, a veteran prosecutor, with violations of ethical and professional conduct over his handling of the case in which three members of the Duke University lacrosse team were accused of sexually assaulting an escort service dancer at a team party....

RALEIGH, N.C. — The North Carolina State Bar has granted Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong a five-day extension to file a written response to ethics charges leveled against him for his handling of the Duke lacrosse sexual assault case.

There's another accusation of rape floating around Durham this week. The accuser was allegedly attacked at a house party this Saturday. The accuser is white. The suspect is black. Heard anything about that? Yeah, I didn't think so. The mainstream media has bent over backward to keep race out of this. Even those who first gave a description of the alleged rapist as a “black man” later redacted that from their reports. The News & Observer never printed it at all. And none has pointed out, as the Duke Chronicle has done, that the alleged victim was white, making this...

DURHAM - With the North Carolina attorney general reviewing the Duke lacrosse case, the new prosecutors must weigh evidence gathered by Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong's chief investigator, whose private detective career was marked by ethics complaints. Nifong hired Linwood E. Wilson, a gospel singer with limited experience working criminal cases, less than four months before the March 13 lacrosse team party at which an escort service dancer said she was raped, beaten and robbed. Wilson, 58, is the only full-time investigator on Nifong's staff. Twenty years ago he was investigated on suspicion of making false statements on the witness...

"And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean." Just how low has the reputation of the former DUke lacrosse "rape" prosecuter, Mike Nifong fallen? So low that even many DUmmies now rebuke him as you can see in this THREAD titled, "about the duke lacrosse case...they put themselves in this situation." Although the DUke lacrosse players accused in this "rape" case (now dropped) were initially condemned by the usual leftwing suspects, especially far left Duke...

January 12, 2007, 1:08 p.m. Let Me Tell You a Little Something About Law & OrderNifong’s wrongs. By Fred Thompson Editor's note: Click here to listen to the original audio version of this radio commentary. You know, I not only play a prosecutor on TV, I used to actually be one. So when I see something like the farce that’s playing out in North Carolina it makes my blood boil. Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong, who brought the Duke Lacrosse players rape case, has violated just about every rule in the prosecutor’s book. He sat on evidence that indicated the defendant’s innocence....

A trial date [May 11] is now set for the ethics complaint filed against Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong.

Eponym: A word derived from the name of a person. “Quisling,” for example, refers to the Norwegian leader who truckled to the Nazis, and has come to mean anyone who acts in a treasonous manner. “Borking,” recalls Robert Bork, who was refused a Supreme Court appointment after some pointed inquiries. It signifies the process whereby an official is rejected by a committee of judges. “Nixonian” means imperial, guarded, paranoid. And now comes “Nifonging.” Anyone familiar with the so-called Duke Rape Case knows exactly what that word means — betrayal of public office, disgraceful conduct on the part of a district...

It was not just that the head of a DNA laboratory testified under oath in December that he and Mr. Nifong both knew back in April that there was no DNA from any of the Duke University lacrosse players found on the body of the stripper who accused them of rape - or even that the DNA of other men was found in her underwear and in intimate areas of her body. What was really damning was that he and Mr. Nifong had agreed to keep these facts secret, despite requirements that exculpatory evidence be turned over to the defense....

My list of the Most Wanted for 2006 and into the New Year ranks Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong as Public Enemy Number One. His crimes should be punishable by a life sentence for purposely seeking to ruin the lives of Duke lacrosse players because of who they are, not for crimes they allegedly committed. He needs to be separated from society and consigned to a padded cell where he can serve as a symbol to the culture warriors at Duke and in Durham that the days of staining people to achieve the goals of their politically correct agenda are...

The past nine months have been a very difficult time for our family. We are grateful and appreciative to those who have supported us during this time, and particularly grateful [for] the outpouring of support that we have received from Duke alumni. We appreciate the recent comments by Duke University President Broadhead, questioning the basis for the remaining charges against Reade and Mr. Nifong's conduct in ever bringing these charges. We are also glad that Duke University has now made it clear that Reade is welcome to return to the University and look forward to the day that he can...

DURHAM - The swearing-in ceremony for embattled Durham District Attorney Mike Nifong apparently took place inside the Durham County Courthouse this morning while the press and other observers stood outside on the courthouse steps. The ceremony was scheduled for 8 a.m. But the courthouse doesn’t normally open until 8:30 a.m., and a sheriff’s deputy told reporters and others that the doors would remain locked until then. Nifong, who kept a low profile for the first 27 years of his career as a prosecutor in Durham, is now nationally known for his involvement in the sexual assault case against three former...

Now that the North Carolina State Bar has filed a 17-page, 41-count ethics complaint against District Attorney Michael Nifong's handling of the Duke rape case, there's a different kind of New Year's countdown taking place in Durham: when and under what circumstances will Nifong leave office. The Dec. 28 ethics charges are expected to be expanded when the state bar's grievance committee meets again Jan. 18. Like a grand jury, the committee meets periodically; the current ethics charges stem from its most recent meeting in October and cover public statements Nifong made about the case last March and April. At...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- 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.

Raleigh — The North Carolina State Bar has filed an ethics complaint against Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong.

The North Carolina bar filed an ethics complaint Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of breaking four rules of professional conduct when speaking to the reporters about the sensational case. The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment. Among the rules District Attorney Mike Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments "that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public comdemnation of the accuser." 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...

As of this moment, we're still unsure of all the facts in the Duke "rape" case, but it's looking like the accused players could be getting railroaded to the point where, when this is over, District Attorney Mike Nifong might receive a lucrative job offer from Union Pacific. The prosecution's "evidence" seems to be adding up about as logically as the answers on Paris Hilton's algebra exam, yet the case is still being pursued. Every time we look at somebody who may be falsely accused and wrongly convicted, we should shudder and think, "There but for the grace of God,"...