Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong, who was behind the initial prosecution of three former Duke lacrosse players on charges of sexually assaulting an exotic dancer, publicly apologized to the men Thursday. Nifong's apology came one day after the three were declared innocent and charges against them were dismissed, following a review of the case by the state's attorney general. "To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused," Nifong said in a written statement.
However, he said he takes issue with the stinging rebuke delivered Wednesday by North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper regarding his handling of the case. Cooper said the cases were "the result of a tragic rush to accuse and a failure to verify serious allegations" and said Nifong "pushed forward unchecked. There were many points in this case where caution would have served justice better than bravado."
The North Carolina state bar filed ethics complaints against Nifong in December and January, accusing him of withholding DNA evidence from the players' defense attorneys and of "making misrepresentations to the presiding judge."
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hmmm - and that's worth less than a warm bucket of spit. Nfong is a minor league politician and a lesser league human. He deserves to lose his pension, his house, his comfortable life, and live in a concrete cube for the rest of his life, just like these boys would've done. F*ck him and all future political whores who trample truth and rights in their quest for power.
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Has he resigned?
Then his 'apology' isn't worth the paper its written on.
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Anyone who wants to know anything about the Duke affair needs to read KC Johnson's Durham in Wonderland blog.
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Unfortunately, Nifong fits the Marion Berry pattern. He might get disbarred, but watch him come roaring back to political life as some other kind of elected official courtesy of a dazed and ignorant electorate...
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Any word on how happy the black community is on being played for fools?
A narcissist bastard who loves himself so much that he even gets off apoligizing at a TV press confrence. A Nifong would consider solitary confinement for life a p0rnagraph pleasure.
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I wonder when Al Sharpton will apologize for his remarks.
Well, I'm still waiting for mine . And my money.
But, what the hell, it's only been 19 years...
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IF he had resigned AND apologized then I would give him a pass. But this is just damage control because he knows he opened himself up to civil proceedings when he gave commentary to his investigation. Nail him to the wall and let the buzzard feed on his rotting carcus.
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A non-apology in the traditional form: "To the extent that ... that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize" Nail him to the wall. Not a school the trailing daughters will be applying to.
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What's interesting to me, as a lady in the early years of one of many decades, that I understood what he was saying! That could only come about through the "culture" that is my environment. And I don't do rap, MTV, BET etc. and I still followed the conversation.
I don't like Imas, but some thought needs to be given why is it someone of my age, understands language that is definitely from this hip-hop culture. And I didn't get it from American Idol.
I think the two revs need to be a little cautious about where they are taking this thing. There is always a money trail with these two, and they just may not like where that money trail ends up. It's the success of their own culture that in the last decade has become a part of our kids and grandkids.
What? Are they looking for a pay-off from the music, TV industry to get them to NOT look into the influence this industry has on our culture?
Ayaan Hirsi Ali - a controversial former Dutch politician, feminist and outspoken critic of Islam - will top the bill at this year's Sydney Writers Festival.
Hirsi Ali, 37, will top a bill of more than 300 international and Australian writers at this year's festival, the first under the direction of Wendy Were, former head of the Perth International Writers Festival. Dr Were said the festival had propelled itself into the top five international writers' festivals and was edging into the top three.
Goddam SUVs!!!
CAMDEN, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine was in critical condition Friday but expected to recover after his SUV crashed into a guard rail while heading to a meeting between Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team. Goddam Imus!!!
The crash on the Garden State Parkway broke the governor's leg, six ribs, his sternum and fracturing a vertebrae. Authorities were still searching for a pickup truck driver whose actions were blamed for causing it.
Corzine, 60, did not suffer any brain damage in the crash. But he won't be able to resume his duties as governor for several days, if not weeks, and he won't walk normally for months, Dr. Robert Ostrum said performing surgery on the governor Thursday night at Cooper University Hospital. Why do they have to point out that he suffered no brain damage?
Would any one notice if he had?
Corzine was riding in the front passenger's seat of a sport utility vehicle driven by a state trooper when a white pickup truck swerved to avoid a red pickup truck that had moved onto the highway from the shoulder, State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes said. The white pickup hit the passenger side of the SUV, sending it skidding into a guardrail. The red pickup left the scene. Nice job by the Jersey State Police...
It was a standard two car convoy. The one with the gov crashed, 2nd car stopped to help the boss. Right choice
The crash occurred around 6 p.m. while Corzine was en route from Atlantic City to the governor's mansion in Princeton to moderate a meeting between the Rutgers women's basketball team and radio personality Don Imus.
Fuentes said it was unclear whether the governor was wearing his seat belt at the time of the crash. Seat belts are mandatory for everyone in front seats in New Jersey but not for back-seat passengers who are over age 18; the fine for violating the law is $46. My bet. No.
Troopers in a vehicle following Corzine's administered first aid and called for help. Corzine, Trooper Robert Rasinski and a gubernatorial aide were flown by helicopter to the hospital. When Corzine arrived at the hospital, doctors said he was conscious but had several injuries: a femur bone broken in two places that had lacerated his skin, a broken sternum, six broken ribs on each side, a head laceration and a minor fracture on a lower vertebrae. Defintely not wearing a seatbelt. That's a lotta damage for just hitting a guard rail.
Sounds like he submarined under the dash
The governor was moved to the hospital's trauma intensive care unit after surgery and was listed in critical but stable condition early Friday. He was sedated and receiving pain medication. Ostrum said a rod was inserted in Corzine's leg, and additional operations were scheduled for Saturday and Monday. The injuries were not considered life-threatening, but it would be at least three to six months before Corzine could walk normally, he said."He's got a pretty significant rehab in front of him," Ostrum said. Gotta wear that seat belt.That's not just a rule for the "little people", governor...
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And they were traveling how fast ?
It's been my experience that when troopers drive a big deal like the gov, they fly down the road most rikky tik. A chain reaction swerve crash can happen when one does not check his blind spot, which can be a common oversight.
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The latest AP blurb says he was not wearing his seatbelt. No linky, though.
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lucky he's a Dem - a spinal fracture is inconsequential. He'll be able to lead a full life
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I wish Jon Corzine a complete recovery so he can go back to work-- AFTER his term as Governor has expired.
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Looks like he's not a big fan of seat belts.
"A law enforcement official close to the investigation told The Associated Press on Thursday that the governor typically does not wear his seat belt, and that his state trooper detail had not been successful in persuading him. The source spoke on condition of anonymity, citing a lack of authorization to speak on the matter." - Linky
A British man worshipped as a goddess in India says he wants to stay there after his six-month visa runs out.
Stephen Louis Cooper has become the centre of attraction in the temple town of Becharaji in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Devotees have been lining up to seek his blessings and some of them even take him to be the messenger of Bahuchar Mata, the goddess of Indian eunuchs, addressing him as Ma.
Mr Cooper, who says he has been diagnosed with gender identity disorder, likes to wear a sari and be addressed as a woman. Hence his new name, Pema, meaning lotus, by which everyone now addresses him.
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Legislative officials were surprised to learn this week that the state is building a new death chamber at San Quentin State Prison as part of a response to a federal judge's ruling that California's lethal injection methods are unconstitutional, The Bee has learned.
Staff members with the California Legislative Analyst's Office were made aware of the project during a visit to the prison on Tuesday, according to Dan Carson, director of the office's criminal justice section.
The state Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation did not tell legislators the project had begun. LAO staffers were "surprised" to learn the construction had started, Carson said, adding the project is "very far along."
Carson said paperwork indicates the price tag on the project is $399,000. Projects costing less than $400,000 can be paid for out of discretionary funds; legislators do not need to be notified of such projects.
"We are not making an assertion at this point that there was any violation of state rules," Carson said.
In December, U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled San Quentin's 69-year-old chamber was cramped and had inadequate lighting. Construction on a new chamber began last month and is expected to be completed in May, according to Lt. Eric Messick, a spokesman for the prison.
Fogel's ruling came after a lawsuit brought on behalf of convicted killer Michael Angelo Morales, who sued the state in response to questions of whether inmates were awake during previous executions. Fogel eventually found seven cases in which inmates may not have been unconscious when they were injected with the drug that was to kill them.
Morales stands convicted of the rape and murder of 17-year-old Terri Winchell in a Lodi vineyard in 1981.
In addition to the space concerns, Fogel determined four other problems with the state's execution process: inconsistent and unreliable screening of execution team members; a lack of meaningful training and oversight of the execution team; inconsistent and unreliable record keeping; and improper mixing, preparation and administration of sodium thiopental, a barbiturate sedative.
A spokeswoman for the corrections department would not comment on the new chamber. Under a judge's ruling, the state does not have to discuss its progress until May 15.
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Electrocution is by far the best means of painless execution available. This is because the electricity fries your brain far faster than any pain signal can travel to it.
There is only one recorded instance where it might have failed. The child killer-cannibal Albert Fish had a masochistic habit of inserting needles into his body and leaving them there. Over years, so many had been inserted that it cause some degree of short circuit. Even then, it could not be determined if the first, second or third jolt was what killed Fish.
He was recorded to have said that electrocution would be "the supreme thrill of my life".
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Electrocution is by far the best means of painless execution available. This is because the electricity fries your brain far faster than any pain signal can travel to it.
There is only one recorded instance where it might have failed. The child killer-cannibal Albert Fish had a masochistic habit of inserting needles into his body and leaving them there. Over years, so many had been inserted that it cause some degree of short circuit. Even then, it could not be determined if the first, second or third jolt was what killed Fish.
He was recorded to have said that electrocution would be "the supreme thrill of my life".
LAHORE, Va. On his first drive through this central Virginia town, Noor Naghmi didn't notice the barns or cow pastures, or the tractors trundling by. He imagined gardens and domes and spires. He pictured arabesque archways reflected in glossy pools. He saw all the grandeur of his home town of Lahore, Pakistan, which he had left more than three decades before.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
