Nifong Finds Justice (or Vice Versa)
A disciplinary board disbarred former Durham County DA Mike Nifong today after a week-long hearing. Nifong seemed to agree with the punishment and his lawyers have said that they will not appeal the ruling. Nifong has already agreed to resign as DA.
From AOL News:
The committee, after deliberating for a little more than an hour on Saturday, unanimously agreed with the bar on almost every charge - including the most serious allegations - that Nifong's actions involved "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation."
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State Bar prosecutor Douglas Brocker told the committee that as Nifong investigated the allegations that a stripper was raped and beaten at a March 2006 party thrown by Duke's lacrosse team, he charged "forward toward condemnation and injustice," weaving a "web of deception that has continued up through this hearing."
"Mr. Nifong did not act as a minister of justice, but as a minister of injustice," Brocker said.
The verdicts and the punishment did not appear to surprise Nifong, who acknowledged during sometimes tearful testimony Friday that he would likely be punished for getting "carried away a little bit" when talking about the case.
I happened to catch just a bit of his testimony on the stand yesterday, and his attempts to portray himself as a basically good guy who "got carried away a little bit" were not only pathetic but wholly unbelievable. He sat there and lied and it seemed, on a few occasions, that even he thought what he was saying was absurd.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Now the city, county and state will all pay a very hefty price for his grandstanding and political maneuverings. And so should every other prosecutor in that office who kept their mouths closed while this clown pushed this joke of a case forward.
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