Hey while we’re on things legal, how about that Mike Nifong and the Duke rape case? This case is the perfect example of why Lex keeps his opinions about legal things to himself until the handwriting is on the wall. Well it would seem that the handwriting is pretty much on the wall and it says, “DA Nifong, the accuser and police – but principally Nifong – are themselves the ones guilty of criminal actions.”
This is scary. What if the three accused were not the off-spring of parents with the resources necessary to take on Nifong? Those three young men would be in serious trouble. What a sinking feeling it must be to have a nitwit like Nifong, with all of the resources of the state of North Carolina behind him, coming after you for something you didn’t do.
Where do go for any kind of normal life when the Duke University administration declares your guilt, cancels an entire sports program’s season and fires the coach before a trial date is set. Where do go when 88 members of the Duke University faculty sign a letter declaring your guilt without one iota of evidence? Where do go when the enlightened student body of a liberal arts institution like Duke University are offering death threats instead of a fair trail? Where do go when the MSM big shots all have you declared guilty before the first witness is called?
Well, fortunately for the young men, their parents are not degreasing machinery at the local Ford plant on the late shift. If they were, the young men would have been hung out to dry as sure as the name Nifong will soon become a verb in legalese meaning “to railroad”– as in, “Judge, there is no evidence in this case. The DA is trying to Nifong my client.”
And that’s what the Duke case and the Libby case have in common - overzealous prosecutors hoping that their case brings them fame and later, with the book deal, fortune. Had Patrick Fitzgerald closed up shop and headed back to Chicago to take on drug dealers and organized crime when he first discovered that Richard the Dick’s outing of Valerie Plame constituted no crime, his tour as Special Prosecutor would have ended before he found his way to the men’s room. Instead, Fitzfong (the name given Fitzgerald by Rush Limbaugh) hung around asking questions until he discovered or caused a crime.
Just reading about an overzealous prosecutor or cop is scary enough stuff, how would it feel to have one coming after you? That is why I pass on this piece of advice given me by a Marine lawyer during an office chat not a legal matter; It is the job of the police and prosecutors to charge people with crimes. So, even if you are absolutely innocent, never volunteer information about a matter in which you may be implicated. Shut up.
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The posturing in the MSM concerning these cases reminds me Art Carney in The Honeymooners addressing a golf ball. It seems to never end. Libby and the Duke students were convicted before they were tried.
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