Jun 12 2007
Nifong faces ethics charges…finally
I mean that. From the get go this whole Duke Lacrosse players case was a sham.
We are supposed to have a system that requires justice to be dispassionate and impartial, where justice is the only reward.
Instead, Nifong stoked the flames of racism in his handling of this case, and it can only appear to be for the purpose of reelection.
And it worked.
But now he has had the case dismissed with prejudice and he faces severe ethics charges over his mishandling.
Police: Nifong Moved Forward With Case, Despite Problems
Mike Nifong acknowledged inconsistencies in an exotic dancer’s story that she was raped, beaten and sexually assaulted at a Duke lacrosse team party but decided to move forward with the case anyway, the lead investigator on the case testified Tuesday.
Inconsistencies is an understatement.
Nifong also insisted pressing ahead on indicting lacrosse player Reade Seligmann, even though detectives could not place him at the party at the time of the alleged incident, he testified.
“We didn’t have any DNA. We didn’t have him at the party,” Himan said of Seligmann. “It’ was a big concern to me to go for an indictment when we did not even know where he was — if he was even there.”
Wrapping up more than three hours of testimony in which North Carolina State Bar prosecutors questioned him on every aspect of the investigation, Himan said he agreed with Attorney General Roy Cooper’s decision to dismiss charges against Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans.
“Through interviews, it was a fact that Crystal was lying,” he said “Every time she was questioned on something, she improvised it. … I don’t know exactly what happened at that house, but I don’t believe a sexual assault occurred.”
Nifong is on trial facing State Bar charges that he violated rules of professional conduct while handling the case for nearly a year. He is accused of making statements prejudicial to the defendants, making false statements to the court and withholding exculpatory DNA evidence from defense attorneys.
If the Bar’s three-member Disciplinary Hearing Commission decides he is guilty, he could be disbarred.
Disbarring is not enough. A pity tarring and feathering is not vogue.
“This didn’t have to happen, and the horrible consequences were entirely foreseeable,” State Bar Counsel Katherine E. Jean said during her opening statement. “The harm done to these three young men and their families and the justice system of North Carolina is devastating.”
Jean also talked about meetings Nifong had with the Dr. Brian Meehan, director of DNA Securities Inc., at which she said Nifong learned that none of the players’ DNA matched that material found in and on the Mangum.
And that was his undoing really. Once it leaked out he had concealed exculpatory evidence, the case fell apart.
But there will always remain those hotheads inflamed by his false accusations, who will continue to believe that white privilege triumph here, not justice.
Nifong use racial paranoia as a means to his career.
It is only fitting his career be thus ended.
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It probably doesn’t have too much to do with this article, but the mention of racism, and using it to thwart justice, or attempt to, in order to gain politically from it, causes me to say this.
“Instead, Nifong stoked the flames of racism in his handling of this case, and it can only appear to be for the purpose of reelection.
And it worked. “
Someone needs to give some of these people a good, swift kick in the ass and remind them that techincally now, with all the favors and special procedures given to them, that minorities are the majority, and that caucasian is the minority. The overused theory of majority white men prevailing is now an unusable theory, because the white males are constantly at a disadvantage. Female whites too, but in a lesser way, because women are a protected clause under Equal Employment Opportunities.
Bottom line, white is the political minority. If a mexican and a white are trying to get into the same college, the mexican will have the higher chance of being chosen. If an asian woman applies at the same workplace a caucasian woman has applied at, the asian woman will have the higher chance of being chosen. If a black man tries out for a sports team, he will probably be chosen over a white man so the team can boast of ‘ethnic variety’.
Where has the justice gone?