Nifong Committed Serious Offenses: Committee

The disciplinary committee that has been hearing the case of Mile Nifong, persecutor of the Duke lacrosse players, has just found that he committed very serious misconduct.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Mike Nifong broke numerous rules of professional conduct during his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, committing "deceit and misrepresentations," a disciplinary committee ruled Saturday.

The committee must now decide if the longtime prosecutor in Durham County, who has already pledged to resign his post as district attorney, should be stripped of his law license. That decision was expected later Saturday.

The North Carolina State Bar charged Nifong with breaking several rules of professional conduct, including lying to both the court and bar investigators and withholding critical DNA test results from the players' defense attorneys.

The committee, after deliberating for a little more than an hour, unanimously agreed with the bar on almost every charge — including the most serious allegations — that Nifong's actions involved "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation."

Nifong will certainly be disbarred, heck, he's going to be lucky if criminal charges aren't brought against him for his behavior. Then there are the civil suits that are sure to follow.