Jail Nifong - And Fire Duke's President by Chris Freind

Another chapter has closed in the Duke lacrosse debacle, but several more need to be written in order for true justice to be served.

The nefarious district attorney, Michael Nifong, was just disbarred for "intentional prosecutorial misconduct" and apparently will not appeal the decision. This is a man who, facing an upcoming election, made the conscious decision to freely play with and omit key facts, facts that if brought to light would have closed the case immediately. Facts that would have prevented the students from being charged in the first place. (One episode that was particularly galling was when Nifong lied to lawyers and court officials, telling them that he had turned over all the DNA test results to the defense when in fact he hadn't). Instead, he thought it more prudent to bolster his re-election chances by pandering to the Black community. So he played the race card, inflamed racial tensions nationwide and depicted innocent people as monsters.

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