Duke Three File Civil Suite Against Nifong

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I shall follow this with great interest.


TalkLeft has the story.


All previous here, and if you have the stomach for it here's an eight minute reminder of just what a slimy lying scumbag Nifong really is.

Nifong "I did it for my pension" Reports To jail

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Not much danger of him doing his day among the general population I don't suppose, bummer.

DURHAM, N.C. - Mike Nifong, the former Durham County District Attorney who led the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case, reported to jail Friday to begin serving a 24-hour sentence for contempt of court. more

Video: Duke Lacrosse: 'Until Proven Innocent'

Video: Did Nifong Act Alone? Not by the sound of things.

Nifong Sentenced To One Whole Day

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This loathsome piece of garbage masquerading as a man. This creature really, and I mean really really, sets my blood boiling, what a piece of shit he is.
Nifong, KNOWING that the accused in the Duke lacrosse case were innocent, Nifong deliberately withheld evidence and pursued a malicious prosecution of the three for his own political advancement, trying to rack up browny points for when the time came for him to stand for re-election.

He would have sent three men up the river for life or the best part of life, he would have robbed three men of the majority of their time in their one and only visit to this planet to enhance his chances of being returned in his job as District Attorney, what an evil bastard he is.

One day! one fucking day! one miserable short day in jail, what about malicious prosecution and attempting to pervert the course of justice and Christ knows what else he is guilty of?
He should have gone up the river for the same period of time the the Lacrosse Three would have served, had this despicable cocksucker had had his way.

Disgusted, absolutely one hundred percent fucking disgusted.

And he is still lying through his back teeth.



Taking the stand in his own defense, Nifong insisted Friday he didn't intentionally lie about whether he had turned over the DNA evidence. But he acknowledged the report he gave defense attorneys was incomplete.

"I now understand that some things that I thought were in the report were in fact not in the report," Nifong said. "So the statements were not factually true to the extent that I said all the information had been provided."


There is far too much to highlight, have a read of the bloody thing.

My previous posts are here. They are worthy of a read if only for the details and horrors of the case.

Immediately If Not Sooner. Judge To Nifong

Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson also said Monday night he would proceed with a pending request to remove Nifong from office......

Nifong, who was disbarred Saturday for breaking more than two dozen rules of professional conduct in his handling of the case, said in a letter released Monday that he would leave office July 13. His departure date wasn't soon enough for Hudson, who decided to suspend Nifong from office.

Nifong: Toast. Will We See Justice ?

Update:

State Bar prosecutor Douglas Brocker told the committee that "Mr. Nifong did not act as a minister of justice, but as a minister of injustice," AP reported.

After the hearing, attorneys for the exonerated lacrosse players said they would push for criminal charges against Nifong.

"I don't think that any of us are done with Mr. Nifong yet," said Jim Cooney, Seligmann's attorney. CNN with short clip.

He is disbarred, although the statements are somewhat ambiguous.


RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A disciplinary committee said Nifong will be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape — a punishment the veteran prosecutor admitted was appropriate......

The committee must now decide whether the longtime prosecutor should be stripped of his law license. That decision was expected later Saturday. USAtoday

But if there is any bit of justice in this world this fucker needs to be brought to account, he would have gladly sent these lads up the river for thirty years knowing full well he was stitching them and for no other reason than to get re-elected in his wanky job.

I hope he gets sued for every last penny he has and then brought to trial for Christ knows what and has to rely on a public defender* who doesn't give a shit followed by the same trip up the river that he would have had these lads make.
*It is not my intention to slag public defenders off, I am aware there are thousands of good guys out there that are dedicated to real justice.

Mr. Cheshire said defense lawyers planned to file a motion requesting that Mr. Nifong be found in criminal contempt of court for misstatements to the judge and lawyers in pretrial hearings. The charge, if upheld, could result in fines or jail time. The families are also considering civil suits. NYT

I have a feeling the Rude One might come up with a classic phrase or two when he puts his pen to paper regarding this douche.

Nifong Update: He Broke The Rules. Tell Me About It

Not looking good for the scumbag, oh how my heart bleeds.

(Tell me about it) English vernacular, "Tell me something I don't already know."


Further Update.
Specifically, the bar's three-member disciplinary panel unanimously found Nifong guilty of fraud, dishonesty, deceit or misrepresentation; of making false statements of material fact before a judge; of making false statements of material fact before bar investigators, and of lying about withholding exculpatory DNA evidence.

And the panel are humming and harring about what Nifong's punishment should be!!! for fuck's sake. 6abc

Rogue Prosecutor or A Consequence Of The System: Nifong

The status quo exists for any number of reasons, be it from, it's not broke don't fix it, to, perhaps it's not relevant in today's society, or quite simply, plain old apathy.
But in a majority of cases it remains because it's too entrenched, too costly to change, if not nigh impossible to change if only for the reason of logistics.

Gun control is a typical example, agenda driven pressure groups aside, the guns are out there and nothing in the world is going change that.
Though this article is not on the subject of guns I will just put my personal two bits worth in.
Am I against gun control ? I would have to answer that it would depend on the society I was living in.

Some few years ago we had a rampage/massacre event that so radically changed gun ownership laws in the UK that it is illegal to own a hand gun.



Apart from those directly effected (target shooting clubs) the country as whole was pretty much in favour, for after all we always have been relatively a gun free society and like it that way.
We are however witnessing a steady increase in gun violence in the less salubrious neighbourhoods obviously due to illegal possession by the "wrong uns," but that apart life ticks by.

But in a society that is awash with guns the status quo has to be excepted, for not least, the last two reasons I make mention of above.
Nor would I advocate disarming the "white hats" and leaving the "black hats" with access to a vast armoury of weaponry that, like global warming, is never going to go away.

All the accidental shootings, as unfortunate as they be, are a consequence of our old friend or enemy. the Status Quo.


Now to address the subject matter in the title of this article. Mike Niffong, rogue prosecutor or consequence of the status quo? The status quo in this case being elected judicial appointees, be it prosecutors, judges or whatever.

An existing system that with only the slightest of imagination can only appear fraught with dangers and littered with pitfalls.
Before you move further down the page I do hope you are not expecting some wonderful panacean revelation, for I fear elected Judicial appointees are just as entrenched in American Society as are firearms themselves and as we see in the case of Niffong potentially just as dangerous, and I am more than sure lethal in a multitude of instances.

(124 exonerations from death row)

So what can we make of Niffong and his motives, purely self serving? if we are to believe the comments of Gary Beeman who only makes incidental remarks about Niffong when writing about his own miscarriage of justice.

Gary Beeman spent three years on Ohio’s death row. He is also he only person to have ever won exoneration at a second trial proceeding as his own attorney after being sentenced to death. The prosecution’s main witness, an escaped prisoner, was likely the actual killer. He now lives in Niagara Falls.(Capital Defense weekly)

In 1976, I was indicted, charged and tried in less than three months for a murder I did not commit.

As shocking and traumatizing as the accusation was, hearing the guilty verdict and death sentence was far more so. I had previously thought that only the guilty were convicted, ................

Wrongful convictions occur far more frequently than most of us realize, than most of us can even imagine. There is no doubt in my mind that those Duke lacrosse boys would be in prison right now if their families had not had the means to challenge those allegations.

I have little doubt that the prosecutor would be addressed as Judge Mike Nifong today if the system had brought its awesome power to bear on those who did not have the means to fight back, which is happening very frequently. Full article

Self serving, no matter what the cost to others, culpable or not. it's hard to believe otherwise when we see testimony like this given at Niffong's

The head of a private DNA laboratory said under oath today that he and District Attorney Mike Nifong agreed not to report DNA results favorable to Duke lacrosse players charged with rape.

Brian Meehan, director of DNA Security of Burlington, said his lab found DNA from unidentified men in the underwear, pubic hair and rectum of the woman who said she was gang-raped at a lacrosse party in March. Nurses at Duke Hospital collected the samples a few hours after the alleged assault. Meehan said the DNA did not come from Reade Seligmann, David Evans, or Collin Finnerty, who have been charged with rape and sexual assault in the case.

Meehan struggled to say why he didn’t include the favorable evidence in a report dated May 12, almost a month after Seligmann and Finnerty had been indicted. He cited concerns about the privacy of the lacrosse players, his discussions at several meetings with Nifong, and the fact that he didn’t know whose DNA it was.

Under questioning by Jim Cooney, a defense attorney for Seligmann, Meehan admitted that his report violated his laboratory’s standards by not reporting results of all tests.

Did Nifong and his investigators know the results of all the DNA tests? Cooney asked.

“I believe so,” Meehan said.

“Did they know the test results excluded Reade Seligmann?” Cooney asked.

“I believe so,” Meehan said.

Was the failure to report these results the intentional decision of you and the district attorney? Cooney asked.

“Yes,” Meehan replied.

This case has been in trouble since the beginning.

Looks like the District Attorney, Mike Nifong, may be cuddling with bubba soon.

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(Copied in its entirety from above)

Disturbing to say the least. My thanks to Michael Ramirez for the above, and as Mister Ramirez opines, will Niffong soon be playing bitch to Bubba's top? if there were any justice he would, lawyer I ain't but perverting the course of justice would seem to fit nicely here.

Alas it seems so rare that prosecutors or cops for that matter end up facing charges for malicious prosecution.

Perhaps other charges might be brought to bear, or perhaps we could introduce a new statute just for Niffong, something like causing a Nauseas Reaction whilst in pursuit of Bad Acting.

Well worth a statutory minimum of Twenty, I'd vote for that.

If you can get as far as I did, the four minute mark, give yourself a Purple Heart, if you can see the full eight minutes out, nothing less than the Victoria Cross.

So that's it folks, the system stinks. What's the answer? I haven't a clue.