How should Nifong be punished?

17-06.-2007, 10:51 AM	#1
wolfix Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: "Still in 1975" Posts: 2,637	How should Nifong be punished? Today, district attorney Mike Nifong has been disbarred. This is a story of complete abuse of power. We have a district attorney willing to destroy 3 lives of completely innocent boys to further his political career. These 3 boys would have spent years behind bars and then been released to the public forever being branded as sexual predators. Is disbarrement enough? Shouldn't Nifong have to spend the same time in prison as each individual he was ready to condemn? This is not a case of him simply being wrong in an attempt to bring justice. He knew these boys were innocent before he brought charges. What he has done is criminal. This man deserves at least 20-25 years imprisonment. I don't believe in the death penalty, but I would reconsider it in this case. Here is a rundown of the case...... A chronology of events in the Duke lacrosse case: March 13, 2006 — Duke University lacrosse players throw a party at an off-campus house, hiring two strippers. March 14 — One of the dancers tells Durham, N.C., police she was forced into a bathroom by three men and beaten, raped and sodomized. March 23 — Forty-six of 47 team members comply with judge's order to provide DNA. The sole black member is not tested, because the accuser said her attackers were white. March 28 — Duke suspends lacrosse team from play. March 29 — District Attorney Mike Nifong calls members of the team "a bunch of hooligans." April 4 — The accuser identifies her attackers in a photo lineup. April 5 — Lacrosse coach Mike Pressler resigns. Duke President Richard Brodhead cancels the rest of the season. April 10 — Defense attorneys announce DNA tests fail to connect any of the players to the accuser. /*/ April 17 — Grand jury indicts Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty on rape and other charges. April 25 — Granville County authorities confirm the accuser told police 10 years ago she was raped by three men when she was 14. None of the men was charged. May 15 — Grand jury indicts team co-captain David Evans on rape charges. He calls the allegations "fantastic lies." June 5 — Duke president says team can resume play in 2007 under close monitoring. Nov. 7 — Nifong wins election to continue as district attorney. Dec. 15 — Director of a DNA lab testifies that, in an agreement with Nifong, he omitted from a report that genetic material from several men — none of them team members — was found in accuser's underwear and body. Dec. 22 — Nifong drops the rape charges, saying the woman is no longer certain whether she was penetrated. The players still face charges of kidnapping and sexual offense. Dec. 28 — North Carolina bar files ethics charges against Nifong, accusing him of making misleading and inflammatory comments to the media about the athletes. (He is also later accused of withholding evidence and lying to the court.) Jan. 3, 2007 — Duke invites Seligmann and Finnerty to return to school. (They have not returned.) The accuser gives birth. Both sides later say she was not impregnated at the party. Jan. 12 — Nifong asks to withdraw from case because of ethics charges. Jan. 13 — North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper takes over the case. April 11 — Cooper drops all charges, accusing Nifong of overreaching. __________________ "I rule my world with a cellphone."*

17-06.-2007, 12:24 PM	#2
Bro Deal Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Resting by the Tumtum tree Posts: 5,837	Re: How should Nifong be punished? Nifong is a scumbag who did what he did for his own political gain. Prison seems appropriate considering what would have been the result if his plans had worked out. This is an outrageous case, but the same thing to a lesser degree happens all the time. __________________ "You are like the wind and I like the lion. You form the tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you like the wind will never know yours." -- Mulay Hamid El Raisuli, Lord of the Riff, Sultan to the Berbers, Last of the Barbary Pirates

18-06.-2007, 05:59 AM	#3
wolfix Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: "Still in 1975" Posts: 2,637	Re: How should Nifong be punished? You and I agreeing on something????? This case made me angry. Not just for the three boys, but the fact this does happen all the time. We would have never heard of this if the 3 boys were poor. Part of my anger is that America is not outraged and looking at this closer to see how injustice is being done. When people in power abuse power, they need to see strong penalties. __________________ "I rule my world with a cellphone."

18-06.-2007, 02:38 PM

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