Nifong disbarred

[Gan]

RALEIGH, North Carolina (CNN) -- The prosecutor in the Duke University lacrosse team rape case was disbarred Saturday for unethical conduct, and the chairman of the disciplinary committee blamed "political ambition" for his downfall.

Earlier Saturday, the panel of the North Carolina State Bar concluded that Durham County, North Carolina, District Attorney Mike Nifong violated more than a dozen ethics rules in prosecuting the case against the now-exonerated players.

"This matter has been a fiasco," said disciplinary committee chairman F. Lane Williamson. "It seems that at the root of it is self-deception arising out of self-interest. (Watch Williamson deliver the verdict (javascript:cnnVideo('play','/video/law/2007/06/16/candiotti.nifong.verdict.cnn','2009/06/15');) http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/img/1.5/main/icon_video.gif (javascript:cnnVideo('play','javascript:cnnVideo(' play','/video/law/2007/06/16/candiotti.nifong.verdict.cnn','2009/06/15');','2007/06/16');))

"We had a prosecutor who was faced with a very unusual situation in which the confluence of his self-interest collided with a very volatile mix of race, sex and class."

The panel determined Nifong withheld key DNA evidence from the players' defense attorneys that might have cleared them earlier, and lied to the presiding judge and state bar investigators.

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http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/16/duke.lacrosse/index.html
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[Back]

Good riddance. Thats a light sentence

[Apathy]

What's wrong with using pathos to assist in the convinction of people you believe to be guilty?

:whistle:

[Sean of the Thread]

:asshole:

[Kainen]

What's wrong with using pathos to assist in the convinction of people you believe to be guilty?

:whistle:

Withholding evidence is against the law, and it's just plain wrong.

[Gan]

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - From the day he took over the Duke lacrosse rape case, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong charged forward with a strident determination that the guilty would end up in jail. Ultimately, the since-disgraced former prosecutor only succeeded at putting himself behind bars.

Nifong was sentenced Friday to a single day in jail, having been held in criminal contempt (http://get.lingospot.com/f?url=http%3A//search.breitbart.com/q%3Fs%3D%22criminal+contempt%22%26sid%3Dbreitbart. com&eid=csl&tid=9ac9b6d68&site=breitbart.com) of court for lying to a judge during his pursuit of rape charges against the three falsely accused lacrosse players.

Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III could have sentenced Nifong, who had already been stripped of his law license and had resigned from office, to as many as 30 days in jail and given him a fine as high as $500. Instead, he opted for a largely symbolic punishment—the public humiliation (http://get.lingospot.com/f?url=http%3A//search.breitbart.com/q%3Fs%3D%22public+humiliation%22%26sid%3Dbreitbart .com&eid=csl&tid=23456c313&site=breitbart.com) of sending a prosecutor to jail—that he said would help protect the integrity of the justice system.

"If what I impose with regard to Mr. Nifong would make things better or different for what's already happened, I don't know what it would be or how I could do it," Smith said.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8RCITJ00&show_article=1

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:bye:

[Soulpieced]

Now we just need the kids to countersue for defamation and ruining their lives.