by:
William Fisher, Truthout | News Analysis
Remember Mike Nifong? Sure. He's the sleazebag former district attorney
in the Duke University lacrosse team's rape scandal back in 2006. He
made himself a short-lived hero by agreeing to prosecute members of the
Duke Lacrosse team for allegedly raping an African-American exotic
dancer the team had hired for a party.
But Nifong, hellbent on winning re-election, forgot that he was an
officer of the court. He went public with a series of accusations that
later turned out to be untrue; he exaggerated and intensified racial
tensions; he unduly influenced the Durham police investigation; he tried
to manipulate potential witnesses; he refused to hear exculpatory
evidence prior to indictment - that regulations on the conduct of an
identification exercise were breached by failure to include "dummy"
photographs, that he had never spoken directly to the alleged victim
about the accusations and that he made misleadingly incomplete
presentations of various aspects of the evidence in the case (including
DNA results).
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