Potentially Huge News
In the Duke "rape" case. The North Carolina Bar Association has filed ethics charges against District Attorney, Mike Nifong. The prosecutor, although "persecutor" seems to fit better here, is being accused of some pretty gross prosecutorial misconduct. Specifically, the charges say Nifong told the media misleading or inflammatory information.
In a statement, the bar said it opened a case against Nifong in March 30, a little more than two weeks after the party where a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University hired to perform as a stripper said she was raped.
Nifong did not immediately return a call for comment.
Another of the rules Nifong was charged with breaking forbids "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation." The bar said that when DNA testing failed to find any evidence a lacrosse player raped the accuser, Nifong told a reporter the players might have used a condom.
According to the bar, Nifong knew that assertion was misleading, because he had received a report from an emergency room nurse in which the accuser said her attackers did not use a condom.
Quite frankly, this persecution has been very, very suspicious right from the start. If it does turn out that Nifong did this to win election, he really should sit in a jail cell for an equivalent period of time to what he tried to railroad innocent people into prison for. If he has ruined these young men's lives for political gain, he needs too be punished. Harshly. Because the three men will never, ever get beyond what they have been charged with. It will dog them for the rest of their lives.
