Anyone keeping track of Nifong's "I don't recalls"? n/t

[panader0]

[whistle]

1. Who is Nifong?

[helderheid]

2. we all wanna know

[sutz12]

5. Isn't he the prosecutor of the Duke case?

"I don't remember" seems to be the new Republican Universal Defense Strategy. RUDS.

[Lex]

7. Except

Nifong's a Democrat.

[waiting for hope]

8. He's a Democrat......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Nifong

[Lex]

9. One of the reasons Faux News has delighted in it.

imho

[waiting for hope]

11. While, since shit like this is

happening to Repukes more than Dems, any little tidbit is a drop of water in the desert for them....

[blondeatlast]

12. True, but party affiliation shouldn't have any bearing on corruption, but thanks to Newt Gingrich,

we'll never, ever get off that slimy path.

:puke:

[blondeatlast]

3. DA in the Duke LaCrosse case, charged with prosecutorial misconduct. nt

[Sydnie]

4. Is he the DA in the Duke Lacrosse case?

:shrug:

What do I win? ;)

[PCIntern]

6. Yes and they should

chop his nuts off. Figuratively, of course.

Bastard.

[AngryOldDem]

10. Exactly

Seligmann more or less hung his ass out to dry this morning. Good.

[sallyseven]

13. There has been a nagging feeling

in my mind that there was some funny business here. The guy from the lab said that some information was his fault. Just looking at those young men and their pompous attitude gave me pause. The didn't have many redeeming qualities. Why did they think it necessary to have a stripper in the frat house? There is a lot of questions in my mind and I don't mind saying that. Who got paid off!!!!!!

[marshall]

14. Strippers and frat houses are a common combination

Girl's gotta make a living.

[Lex]

15. and a recipe for disaster it seems.

nt

[marshall]

23. In this case, yes

But statistically how many strippers do you think are hired for frat parties across the nation? Most do not end up with a fiasco like this.

[Lex]

29. True. But hiring strippers and prostitutes, while legal,

is a risk for this very reason. The stripper/accuser turned out to have serious mental health issues.

[MadBadger]

30. well first of all, hiring a prostitute is not legal last time i checked

So yes, I assume that would be risky. And not every stripper has serious mental issues. Again proving this is just a random one time incident.

[Lex]

31. I thought it was legal to hire a prostitute in some states.

Like Nevada for example. Maybe they changed that.

No, not every stripper has mental health issues NOR DID I SAY THAT. This one did and set off a nasty chain of events.

[NeedleCast]

17. What are you basing this on?

I'd have an attitude to if an over-aggressive prosecutor with an inflated sense of self-worth were destroying my character too. What about these three kids do you find to be a "lack of redeeming qualities?" That they hired a stripper? That they got to one of the more elite colleges in the country?

Why not hire a stripper to come to your frat house party if that's what you enjoy doing? It's perfectly legal and something that college aged men (in fact, men of all ages really) have been doing for a long time. If you have a problem with strippers, or those who hire them, well, okay, but that's really your problem.

If you've followed the case at all (and my guess here is that you haven't, other than seeing the kids on some chat-bot news program and condemning them because they looked "pompous"), I think you'd see that if anyone was in the wrong here, it was the prosecution.

Of course that whole "innocent until proven guilty" thing didn't stop a shitload of DU'ers from calling for the lynch mob when this story originally broke. The knee-jerk reaction squad was in full effect.

[blondeatlast]

18. The DISTRICT ATTORNEY is on trial here, they've been exonerated.

May you never have a friend or relative fall victim to an overzealous prosecutor.

[NeedleCast]

22. Amen to that Blond

As a person who has been such a victim, I can tell you just how damaging it can be.

In 2003, I was working at the Office of Naval Intelligence, which required a high level security clearence. Due to a clerical error, a page of my application was lost (put in the wrong folder by someone who wasen't me. Well, someone noticed this and reported it to security, and the next thing ya know, I'm being accused of falsifying documents by not providing a "full" copy of my application. My security clearance was revoked, I was fired by the contractor I was working for and spent 40% of my 2003 take home pay on my legal defense...because an over-aggressive federal attorney thought he could get some credit for busting me. Six months into legal proceedings, the missing page was found in another folder (in the same drawer of the same filing cabinet). Still took the federal attack dogs three more months to drop charges against me. They didn't want to look bad after their case fell apart, so they went fishing for anything else they could find on me, which ended up being nothing, although they debated bringing up charges that I had put malicious software on the ONI computer network because someone had tried during the year I worked there and since they already had my name in the system, why not blame me for it?

My reputation was in shambles and I essentially had to start a new career in a different field, even though all charges were dropped and I was completely innocent.

[blondeatlast]

24. A very close relative was prosecuted (successfully) for solicitation.

Regardless of the fact that not only was the time on the police report completely wrong, they had him in the WRONG CAR; he was NOT driving his vehicle (the one on the police report, different color and model and VIN than what he was actually driving), he was driving a friend's car because his was in the shop--and the shop owner testified to that effect.

If he survives this, I will hound Nifong myself throughout his career.

[NeedleCast]

25. The good news is

I don't think he's going to survive this.

[blondeatlast]

26. Unless the Bush administration hires him. It's possible that there

will be an opening in the Justice Department soon and they could claim that this clearly WASN'T a policial appointment...

I'm only semi-joking, too.

[MadBadger]

21. So where do you get the opinion that they are pompous and have little redeeming qualities?

Because they had a stripper? Get off your high horse.

[mondo joe]

27. Stop blaming the victims.

Hiring a stripper is not cause for false rape accusations and prosecutorial misconduct.

[blondeatlast]

16. Among the phrases I want to see permanently banned from the English

language:

"In my own mind..."

:mad:

[blondeatlast]

19. Not a lineup, a "presentation of photographs."

Gad--this man's career is hopefully over.

[marshall]

20. Yeah, he doesn't make sense

But what else can he say, other than admit that he was dishonest?

[blondeatlast]

28. Gotta go to a doctor's appointment, if anyone's watching can you

offer some highlights?

Thanks.