Mike Nifong is scheduled to be sworn in as Durham District Attorney on Tuesday. However, questions about his ethics and handling of the case of the Duke Lacrosse players has left his tenure as District Attorney in question.
From WRAL.com
“He’s probably under more pressure now than ever before,” North Carolina Central University law professor Irving Joyner said. “You have three of the best defense attorneys in the state shooting after him, and you have the state bar that’s filed a complaint about his conduct.”
hmmmmm …… HE is under pressure. I can’t help but think of the pressure everyone else is under in this case.
Joyner said he doesn’t see the lacrosse case as one that will ultimately define Nifong’s career. Once the Duke case is dealt with, he said, Nifong will be judged on how he handles the everyday duties of his office.
I’d be willing to bet it defines his career.
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LaShawn Barber is continuing to follow this case closely and has some predictions as to what 2007 will bring in the case. Go there for more info.
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January 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 am
I’ll bet my house it defines Nifong’s career.
BSC: I know that’s right!
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:45 am
Great stuff, as always Beth. Blog looks great. Happy New Year!!
I really think we need to turn up the volume on this Nifonng turd.
BSC: I agree - that kind of behavior from a public official is just horrible. It’s all about getting elected and not about doing the right thing. We’ve had enough of THAT! I can’t take credit for it being great stuff - I got it from YOUR blog
Happy New Year to you too
January 2nd, 2007 at 1:07 am
No mention of the players who were branded as rapists and sexual deviants by this joker. Not tough on them was it? No pressure on them was there. - Sounds like Instant Karma to me. -
BSC: Isn’t that great! I like it when people get what they deserve in such a timely fashion! He was so obvious in his disregard for justice.
January 2nd, 2007 at 2:19 am
The Duke case will define Nifong. And student Chan Hall stating that he hopes the Duke 3 are prosecuted “whether it happened or not” as payback for things that have happened in the past defines NCCU.
January 2nd, 2007 at 6:28 am
Any “pressure” was created by himself. If he was a real man, he’d not show up to the swearing in, but send a messanger with a letter of resignation instead.
January 2nd, 2007 at 11:38 am
Crap, you totally beat me to the punch on the sympathy thing
January 2nd, 2007 at 12:08 pm
The DA did one good thing. He brought the problem of false claims of rape to national attention.
Each time anyone would bring up the subject of false claims of rape. “victims’ Advocate” always cripple or stifle conversation or debate by clouding the issue with the sufferrings of rape victims to over shadow the suffering of victims of false rape claim.
The premise of these “victim advocates” is that it’s not okay to be raped, but it’s okay to be falsely accused of rape to protect the possible 50% of rape accusers who are actually telling the truth.
• According to the FBI, one of every 12 claims of rape filed in the United States are later deemed ‘unfounded,’ meaning the case was closed because the alleged victim recanted or because investigators found no evidence of a crime.
• Howard County Police classified one out of every four rape allegations as unfounded in 1990-91.
• The National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers says around 600 teachers a year are falsely accused - a trebling since the 1989 Children’s Act.
• Citing a recent USA Today article, discussing the miracle of DNA and FBI studies of sexual assault suspects, DNA testing exonerated about 30% to 35% of the more than 4,000 sexual assault suspects on whom the FBI had conducted DNA testing over the past three years.
• Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40% of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994).
• 1985 the Air Force conducted a study of 556 rape accusations. Over 25% of the accusers admitted, either just before they took a lie detector test or after they had failed it, that no rape occurred.
• 1996 Department of Justice Report, of the roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases analyzed with DNA evidence over the previous seven years, 2,000 excluded the primary suspect, and another 2,000 were inconclusive.
• Linda Fairstein, who heads the New York County District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit. Fairstein, the author of Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, says, “there are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about 50% simply did not happen.”
• Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor known for his zealous prosecution of rapists during his 16-year career, says that false rape accusations occur with “scary frequency.” As a regular commentator on the Bryant trial for Denver’s ABC affiliate, Silverman noted that “any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes.” According to Silverman, a Denver sex-assault unit commander estimates that nearly 50% of all reported rape claims are false.
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Did he take the case or not? Then it in some way defines his judgment.
January 3rd, 2007 at 3:01 pm
WTW-Nifong: I’ll Help Durham Heal…
Morning, y'all, Jebediah here. Sallami had his say earlier, now it is my turn to get some love.
In what has to be one of the funniest, and most ironic, statements made this young year, give it up for Mike Nifong!
DURHAM - District Attorney Mike Ni…
January 6th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
“take the case” Mike Nifong and Crystal fabricated the case. Granted they each did it for their own selfish reasons, but this lie couldn’t have continued without the actions of both of them.
what happened was Nifong hoped the rape claim was real and he tried to jump the band-wagon ahead of everyone else, but when the police and medical evidence didn’t support a rape claim, he continued to railroad these innocent boys to guarantee his re-election. Now he’s looking for a gracefull exit. He thought dropping the rape charges just before end office hours on the friday before christmas would have quietly deflate this monster of a lie he helped create, but this lie will not die without a bang.