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ASSOCIATED PRESS – December 29, 2006 via Overlawyered.com:
The North Carolina bar filed the ethics charges Thursday, accusing District Attorney Mike Nifong of violating four rules of professional conduct by making misleading and inflammatory comments about the athletes under suspicion.
The bar cited 41 quotations and eight paraphrased statements made to newspaper and TV reporters, saying many of them amounted to ”improper commentary about the character, credibility and reputation of the accused.”
Among them:
— Referring to the lacrosse players as ”a bunch of hooligans.”
— ”I am convinced there was a rape, yes, sir.”
— ”One would wonder why one needs an attorney if one was not charged and had not done anything wrong.”
Nifong also is charged with breaking a rule against ”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 condoms.
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 condoms.
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• According to the FBI, one of every 12 claims of rape filed in the United States are later deemed ‘unfounded,’ meaning the case was closed because the alleged victim recanted or because investigators found no evidence of a crime.
• Howard County Police classified one out of every four rape allegations as unfounded in 1990-91.
• The National Association of Schoolmasters/Union of Women Teachers says around 600 teachers a year are falsely accused – a trebling since the 1989 Children’s Act.
• Citing a recent USA Today article, discussing the miracle of DNA and FBI studies of sexual assault suspects, DNA testing exonerated about 30% to 35% of the more than 4,000 sexual assault suspects on whom the FBI had conducted DNA testing over the past three years.
• Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40% of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994).
• 1985 the Air Force conducted a study of 556 rape accusations. Over 25% of the accusers admitted, either just before they took a lie detector test or after they had failed it, that no rape occurred.
• 1996 Department of Justice Report, of the roughly 10,000 sexual assault cases analyzed with DNA evidence over the previous seven years, 2,000 excluded the primary suspect, and another 2,000 were inconclusive.
• Linda Fairstein, who heads the New York County District Attorney’s Sex Crimes Unit. Fairstein, the author of Sexual Violence: Our War Against Rape, says, “there are about 4,000 reports of rape each year in Manhattan. Of these, about 50% simply did not happen.”
• Craig Silverman, a former Colorado prosecutor known for his zealous prosecution of rapists during his 16-year career, says that false rape accusations occur with “scary frequency.” As a regular commentator on the Bryant trial for Denver’s ABC affiliate, Silverman noted that “any honest veteran sex assault investigator will tell you that rape is one of the most falsely reported crimes.” According to Silverman, a Denver sex-assault unit commander estimates that nearly 50% of all reported rape claims are false.
On Monday, May 15, three innocent boys were arrested for first-degree rape, first-degree sexual assault, and first-degree kidnapping all on the claims of a criminal lying hooker and the criminal misconduct of DA Mike Nifong.
Nifong’s judgment has been poor and selfish all along- and the old adage that a D.A. can get a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich” for the murder of the pig.
On the first line up, and this is unconfirmed rumors, that Crystal identified people who weren’t even Duke student, so the line up was modified to include only Duke lacrosse players, then Crystal accused two players that weren’t even at the party, so the DA modified the line up to include only players that were at the party.
The DA didn’t talk to Crystal for almost a year because he claims Crystal was too traumatized to talk. Busy is more like it. Besides having sex with a “client”, a vaginal sex toy, and two men for a ride to the Duke party, she performed at the strip club the night and couple of nights after, and obviously continued to have unprotected sex with multiple men. She claimed she had sex with her boyfriend that night, but of all the many many DNA found on and in her, none were from the innocent Duke boys or from her boyfriend. Another rumor I heard is that Crystal is going to get her friend Mike Nifong to test the entire Duke and NCCU football team to find out the father of Crystal’s third bastard child.
The truth has caught up with Mike and Crystal’s lies, it’s only a matter of time before the law does.
I predict these three innocent boys will own Durham and put a heavy financial strain on NC for all the pain and suffering these poor innocent boys suffered under the hands of a lying black hooker and a corrupt elected official.
Duke lacked courage
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I have to agree with Gordon Grunte’s comments regarding how Duke University’s leadership handled the initial phase of the lacrosse story. My wife and I were upset with the lack of reason and courage exhibited by Duke’s leadership during that period and how they turned on and punished the entire team.
The only words of reason and support for these young men (the true victims) came from some of their fellow students. It was clear that many team members were guilty of bad judgment and poor behavior and that they probably violated team rules and Duke policies.
But regarding the rape charge — to anyone with an open mind and an understanding of our legal system, it should have been obvious that this case lacked merit and smacked of political opportunism. As one who loved the university even before I was fortunate enough to attend it (MBA,1981), I had always admired the tradition of Duke’s leadership and vision, as exhibited by leaders such as the late Terry Sanford.
This great university, its students, faculty, alumni, the Durham community and the great state of North Carolina need better leadership at Duke.
Where’s the Durham outcry on lacrosse case?
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You are right, Mike Silver. I am also tired of hearing from so many people across this great nation about the lacrosse crime. I ask you, where is the local outcry of the crime committed in Durham? All crimes should have proper punishment, regardless of race, financial or political status.
Yes, a serious crime was committed here, but, not by three Duke lacrosse players. Far too quick judgment brought shame and much undue anguish on them, their families, their teammates, their coach, Duke University and the entire community of Durham. Shame on Mike Nifong and shame on all those who elected him to office. Shame on Duke for not giving more support from the beginning. Shame on The Herald-Sun for jumping in too early with judgment.
Allowing these remaining serious charges to go on and on continues to hurt all of us in Durham and beyond who care about honesty and justice. Unfortunately, the new dropped rape charge has done lasting damage to all actual rape victims for years to come. I ask again … where is the Durham outcry and sense of honor?
Stubborn and misguided
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I was glad to see the rape charges dropped against the three Duke lacrosse players, I only wish the rest of the case had been dismissed as well. Mike Nifong has shamefully represented the office of the District Attorney and has ruined three young men’s lives in the process. He knew from the beginning that his case had no merit, yet to save his own butt for re-election, he chose to charge the three men with rape to save face for the election.
He is a disgrace to the law profession, and if he had any dignity left at all, he would do the right thing and step down from his office. If I were a citizen in Durham I would be ashamed that Nifong represents me as district attorney. I look forward to the day the rest of the charges are either dropped or the defense makes Nifong look like an idiot in court and the jury finds not guilty on the remaining charges. Maybe then he will realize what a tragic error he has made. But then again, seeing how incredibly stubborn and misguided Nifong is, I wouldn’t count on it.
Nifong turns to Times
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I had to laugh when I read that Mike Nifong gave a three-hour interview to The New York Times. Putting aside his numerous previous statements that he would save all commentary for the courtroom, let’s focus on who he turned to when he decided to deviate from his self-imposed strategy.
Will breaking his silence by turning to a big New York publication cost him the support of this paper’s editorial staff? After all, they have printed sympathetic story after sympathetic story on Nifong’s behalf and he doesn’t even repay them with the scoop of his first comments in months?
And what about all the letter writers angry that citizens outside of Durham have voiced opinions in this case? Now Nifong has himself encouraged further meddling from outsiders in a case that he had previously stated requires “a Durham solution.”
Resign and apologize
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I stated a while back that regardless of any upcoming situations, Mike Nifong would eventually drop this insane case, after of course he secured his vote in November. Now that he has secured his position, along with some serious national heat he’s drawn upon himself, he’s decided to drop the charges. Now he claims it’s only because the woman has now stated she cannot say with certainty that she was raped.
If that was his true reasoning, then why wasn’t it dropped long ago when the former accuser had eight different stories? Point blank, Nifong used the race card among blacks to get his votes. The only real winner in this situation, despite being a single mom bearing yet another child, is the deranged individual herself, who will be receiving free education from no other than Jesse Jackson.
Dropping the case isn’t enough. Nifong should be forced to resign and apologize to the families he’s hurt. I cannot imagine how this man shows his face in public, without feeling like crawling under a rock.
Oh and if he’s reading, he might also want to drop those ridiculous kidnapping and sexual misconduct charges
#xx – dale parks – & Sharon’s Mom – thanks for bringing a little sense into the discussion; but excuse me now, I must resume my game of Verbal Whack-A-Mole with the local dimwitted disciples of the Reverend Al.
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Sharon – Did your antipsychotic meds kick in yet? Reason I ask is, your statements have passed from ordinary stupidity to mental illness.
I congratulate you on some of the howlers you have produced for our amusement, but you’ve really gone where no knee-jerk politically correct Liberal shit-for-brains has gone before with this winner:
“How am I prejudice idiot, I am WHITE!”
Ah, the word is “prejudiced” with a “D” on the end. But be that as it may, your marginal literacy goes hand-in-hand with your Logic-Free Reasoning®™.
Now after implying that North Carolina (where you’ve never been – and where race-baiting asswipes like you are not welcome) is somehow the world capitol of anti-black prejudice, that all we whites condemned the poor “victim” because she’s black – now you say whites are not capable of prejudice!
I am waiting with bated breath for your “explanation” of that…
…and Mr. Fusion, mon frere atomique, you usually manage somehow to project an impression of being at least partially sane, but from your last there, it’s obvious that, despite all my warnings, you’ve been sticking your head in the plasma containment field again.
“OJ beat his charges because his lawyers showed the science and evidence was bad. Yet the majority of white people won’t accept that as a final outcome.”
Oh, my stars and little comets, you really are living in Fantasyland, aren’t you?
Because that cold-blooded murderer’s expensive lawyers threw a handful of irrelevant dirt in the jury’s eyes is why he got off. Anyone (and if you’re wondering, yes, that includes you) who believes that the irrelevant shit that Fleeb and Scheck and their cohorts trumped up counts as “evidence” or “science” – well, anyone that mindless should be in a straitjacket for their own safety.
The majority of not white, but rational, intelligent people of all races continue to be amazed at the gullibility – or dishonesty – of the morons who doubt OJ’s guilt. But racist fool that you are, you imply that whites are the only ones who don’t buy OJ’s fairytale.
And among all the racist drivel spewed by people such you and Sharon, you apparently aren’t bright enough to have noticed that your “victim”s story was under fire from the beginning – long before her race was ever mentioned. But of course you will attampt to gloss over that, too, since it doesn’t fit in with your prejudice against white people.
Nifong certainly deserves no less than disbarment and a massive civil suit that’ll wipe his corrupt ass out – but I’m hoping that the US Attorney goes for Federal criminal charges, such a ‘deprivation of rights under color of law’ and conspiracy to commit same.
He deserves ruination for abusing his office in the attempt to ruin the lives of innocent people for his personal benefit.
Why don’t you and Sharon chip in and start a ‘Mike Nifong Defense Fund’ to help this dedicated fighter for racial justice?
If there’s anything more pathetic than gullible fools who have no idea of what they’re talking about, it’s gullible and arrogant fools who think they’re the only ones who know what they’re talking about.
So Opineth The Ghoti
I find it extremely hard to believe that these guys are all that sweet and innocent. It hasn’t been that long since I was on a high school football team. I haven’t fogotten how alcohol can screw up the mind of a bunch of team players. Throw in a couple strippers and the testosterone makes guys go nuts. No way do I believe those women caused this trouble. We men know women are the weaker sex and 2 women alone would never deliberately go up against a house full of oversexed drunks way bigger than they are.
I hope Nifong can get the truth out of what happened. I also think it’s a shame that the defence is trying to cheat this woman out of her day in court. What are they afraid of ? TRUTH ?
#110 I am in agreement with what you have said, and I will take it a step further. These young, beautiful, African queens, were passed from one drunk oversexed, limped dick white boy to the next, who pawed them and were constantly staring at their vagina’s. The more they stared, the more excited they became until three of them became drooling, panting, howling, contorted red sweating faced animals. It is so obvious now, they were not getting it from their girlfriends who were tired of having to work on their limp dicks for hours to try to have sex.
It is a good thing that not all women are the weaker sex.
Now you listen to me Nice Guy. There is no such thing as a clock exam. Have you lost your mind? Many women would be found out when they are pretending to be excited and having an orgasm while in bed in bed with most men. I am sure your wife would be found out very fast if there was a clock you could stick between her legs after sex.
Either that or she has you bamboozled for sure.
You know Ghoti, you are very windy, my suggestion is you stick a sock in it.
I can’t understand why no one seems to realize that these boys are public urinaters. The first sign of a rapist is their public urination.
I have no doubt they are as guilty as sin.
Not only that, but I bet they burned little brown spots in their neighbors lawns.
Disgraceful.
THAT IS WHY THERE WAS NO DNA. The rapists couldn’t get it up. The victim stated Matt couldn’t get it up. Remember?
One of them was standing around like bozo the clown masturbating himself while trying to get a hard on. Sorry if I offend any posters on this blog who may suffer the same difficulties. Poor limp dick white boy has disappeared because he could not deal with it.
How can there be DNA with a bunch of limpos. That is the real reason they want to do anything to keep this out of court. That is why all the money and political connections have kicked in.
Every man who went to Duke U is horrified the secret will come out.
I bet the congressman even feels the pain.
This is a cover up of major proportions. Think about it, from the time Kim yelled “limp dick white boys” the political money machine kicked in.
I’m thinking, even though there is no DNA which should make the boys happy, they are smarting from all the snickers in the background.
Hey, Nice Guy, not missing ya yet.
Sharon,
I stopped by to see if you have isolated any more personalities in regard to that unusual troll case. If not, perhaps he has been taken away by now.
I will l check in again. I must say, you are the brightest, most consistent, and the most beautiful poster I have ever observed. I think I have a crush on you. I hope I have a chance.
Later my dear.
Sharon,
I stopped by to see if you have isolated any more personalities in regard to that unusual troll case. If not, perhaps he has been taken away by now.
I will l check in again. I must say, you are the brightest, most consistent, and the most beautiful poster I have ever observed. I think I have a crush on you. I hope I have a chance.
Later my dear.
Back on topic everyone.
#103
I heard Brodhead grew a few and actually demanded Nifong explain his criminal misconduct.
It’s about time!
regarding #106
Nifong running to the NYT to save his sorry ass is so f*ckin funny! I’m sure that he feels the heat in Durham and found in this heat the blacks who voted him into office have fallen quiet.
Re: 110
Here’s an idea? Since you feel so guilty, and I’m sure you didn’t have anything to do with raping the hooker, but should you be charged with a crime you didn’t commit and have you life destroyed because of a stereotype?
Re: 110
Mikal,
no matter sexist in thinking that men are stronger and women are weak and defenseless.. – btw I knw a few women in my Tae Kwon Do class that can kick your ass from now to next Friday –
It is impossible that a crime scene with three drunk men in a small enclosed room with a fighting and clawing woman being orally, virginally, and anally penetrated not leave any DNA evidence of urine, blood, vaginal fluid, sweat, fecal matter, scat smears, saliva, tears, or semen… especially if condoms were used. How would they take off the condoms during all this chaos without spilling, smearing, or touching the content inside or outside of the condom?
Re: 113
so why are you thinking of me enough to mention me?
Can get me out of your mind?
Sorry Sharon… Don’t even get in line. There’s too many hot girls out there and you’re not one of them.
I’m not desperate enough and would never settle for your sorry fat ass. In fact. If we were the last people on earth and the human race depended on us to procreate, your sorry ass would die a virgin as I let the human race die with dignity.
Re: 116
it doesn’t matter if Sharon is Nifong, WhiteLilly, and Troll. Nothing she says make any sense and only make her look like an idiot…. oh wait! Maybe she is Nifong.
Regarding #112
LOL! OMG! “The first sign of rapist are public urination” ? Sharon you are and idiot!
Well enough of that! Like Sharon LilyWhite-Troll said, lets get back to the topic.
Nifong and others (mikal) relied upon racial and sexist stereotypes to promote this false rape claim that isn’t supported by any criminal or medical evidence. How much time do you think Nifong will do and how many millions is Durham and NC going to pay to these innocent boys when this case (which is held together by the desperate christmas wishes of a dirty DA) finally imploads.
Sharon – Did your antipsychotic meds kick in yet? Reason I ask is, your statements have passed from ordinary stupidity to mental illness.
I congratulate you on some of the howlers you have produced for our amusement, but you’ve really gone where no knee-jerk politically correct Liberal shit-for-brains has gone before with this winner:
“How am I prejudice idiot, I am WHITE!”
Ah, the word is “prejudiced” with a “D” on the end. But be that as it may, your marginal literacy goes hand-in-hand with your Logic-Free Reasoning®™.
Now after implying that North Carolina (where you’ve never been – and where race-baiting asswipes like you are not welcome) is somehow the world capitol of anti-black prejudice, that all we whites condemned the poor “victim” because she’s black – now you say whites are not capable of prejudice!
I am waiting with bated breath for your “explanation” of that…
…and Mr. Fusion, mon frere atomique, you usually manage somehow to project an impression of being at least partially sane, but from your last there, it’s obvious that, despite all my warnings, you’ve been sticking your head in the plasma containment field again.
“OJ beat his charges because his lawyers showed the science and evidence was bad. Yet the majority of white people won’t accept that as a final outcome.”
Oh, my stars and little comets, you really are living in Fantasyland, aren’t you?
Because that cold-blooded murderer’s expensive lawyers threw a handful of irrelevant dirt in the jury’s eyes is why he got off. Anyone (and if you’re wondering, yes, that includes you) who believes that the irrelevant shit that Fleeb and Scheck and their cohorts trumped up counts as “evidence” or “science” – well, anyone that mindless should be in a straitjacket for their own safety.
The majority of not white, but rational, intelligent people of all races continue to be amazed at the gullibility – or dishonesty – of the morons who doubt OJ’s guilt. But racist fool that you are, you imply that whites are the only ones who don’t buy OJ’s fairytale.
And among all the racist drivel spewed by people such you and Sharon, you apparently aren’t bright enough to have noticed that your “victim”s story was under fire from the beginning – long before her race was ever mentioned. But of course you will attampt to gloss over that, too, since it doesn’t fit in with your prejudice against white people.
Nifong certainly deserves no less than disbarment and a massive civil suit that’ll wipe his corrupt ass out – but I’m hoping that the US Attorney goes for Federal criminal charges, such a ‘deprivation of rights under color of law’ and conspiracy to commit same.
He deserves ruination for abusing his office in the attempt to ruin the lives of innocent people for his personal benefit.
Why don’t you and Sharon chip in and start a ‘Mike Nifong Defense Fund’ to help this dedicated fighter for racial justice?
If there’s anything more pathetic than gullible fools who have no idea of what they’re talking about, it’s gullible and arrogant fools who think they’re the only ones who know what they’re talking about.
So Opineth The Ghoti
Comment by Lauren the Ghoti — 1/1/2007 @ 1:53 pm
Sharon, your ignorance is only exceeded by your stupidity. You truly are a bloated bag of human waste. Don’t let self-doubt interfere with your plans to improve your life. I hope someday you are charged with a crime you did not commit and a rogue prosecutor tries to nail you. Then, and only then, will you be able to see the folly of your ways. Until then, keep being the useless tool for the race-baiting demagogues that you are. The world needs fools, and you fit the role nicely.
To Nice Guy,
It appears to me you think a lot of yourself. Yelling at Sharon that she is a fat ass and you would not have children with her if you were the last two alive on earth and saying you would let the human race die out.
In reading the posts on this blog, I saw nowhere that Sharon ever asked to stand in line for you. As a matter of fact I find it hard to believe any woman would stand in line for a man who carries a clock around with him for some perverted sexual fetish.
You had said to her she would miss you and all she did was say she wasn’t missing you yet. Get over yourself man.
In relating your rants to the Duke case, I see how the victim must have felt in that dirty little house surrounded by men with brooms.
The more I think about this the madder I get. Men who are so mad at Sharon for a difference of opinion. It is typical of the macho male treating
women like dirt. Just like the victim was treated.
Will the injustice to the fairer sex ever stop. There is no excuse for these insane rants toward Sharon from insecure male posters who probably can’t find their own butt in the dark.
I hope you all rest well tonight.
“…that dirty little house surrounded by men with brooms.”
Now why does that conjure up some vaguely remembered scene from a Harry Potter film?
“Will the injustice to the fairer sex ever stop.”
Ladies & gents, will you all join me in extending a warm DU welcome to Ms. Andrea Dworkin?
It never ceases to amaze me that the so-called “fairer sex” always plays the “all women are helpless victims” card and at the same time challenges someone’s manhood with nasty comments. You can’t have it both ways. Any of Sharon’s and Sexy Lady’s comments above show that the “fairer sex” can be just as nasty and crude as any man. So don’t hand me any of this “victim” crap.
As for regarding to this prostitute as a “victim” in this case…I call bullshit. Anybody who has ever been around prostitutes, titty dancers, escorts and the like knows that these women are not “helpless”. They are very cunning, streetwise individuals…and are not above pulling scams on unsuspecting (or just plain stupid) men. They are not good, hard working girls just trying to pay their way through school ( I always loved that excuse). Most of them will cheat you blind. Most of them have heavy drug problems. Most of them have been in tough situations and know how to get out of them. If anything, the lacrosse players are the ones who are the victims here. These two dancers were probably going to rip these guys off.
Now I’m not saying that the lacrosse players are perfect angels. They are not. But, they did NOT assault this woman. This whole case was based upon lies told by a streetwise hooker who didn’t want to spend some time locked up. Then the prosecutor, who was up for re-election and trailed in the polls, picked it up and ran with it. Sorry folks, this whole story was based on BULLSHIT.
Oh, and by the way, before you play the race card…Kobe Bryant was innocent, too. He just happened to pick up the wrong kind of girl that night. It doesn’t excuse what he did, but he didn’t rape that girl. She suffered from a case of buyer’s remorse. I believe she wanted more than a one-night stand and when he told her to hit the road, she got pissed.
I am disgusted at how this blog has turned into “it’s all about me” or should I say “it’s all about us”.
Now, in rides Cowboy on his white horse to rescue the other parts of himself from the truth.
These boys did something to that girl. They took her in the bathroom to teach her a lesson. They were enraged at the 4 minute dance and the $800.00 they paid. They were enraged, drunk, and decided to hurt her because she was black, and an exotic dancer, and way beneath them.
After all, they were lax players. No one messes with them.
When these ladies refused to dance with brooms, it sealed the fate of the victim.
Rape has nothing to do with sex. It has to do with power.
Your expertise in what makes these women tick is quite telling.
I believe it was the last straw to these men. The two who have had one to many twinkes and were described as chubby just could not live with rejection from a woman of ill repute who wouldn’t even do it for money.
I believe their friends with benefits finally had enough of them and kicked their twinkie shaped asses to the curb.
Sharon, there is just no excuse for these boys urinating in public. That is quite telling.
Disgusting.