Duke Lacrosse Case ESPN Documentary

GoNoles85
Tue, 29 Mar 2016 22:14:21 +0000

I’m having a hard time thinking about any authority system that actually does work efficiently and/or as intended. Maybe I’m an anarchist, I don’t know. Nifong was a gigantic idiot, almost painfully stupid. I LOVED the part were he was squirming in his seat as the young defense lawyer impeached his DNA guy. I think that was the exact moment that Nifong knew his entire career, not just this case, but his entire life’s work was over.

He was literally squirming.

That was the moment when the hunter turned into the hunted because his mind boggling stupidity opened him up to not only being disbarred but to be eventually bankrupt. That is sweet revenge. But I doubt even that makes the Duke players feel whole. The season was cancelled. The Duke AD at the time is the AD at LSU now. That is crazy too. He paid no price at all for assuming the players and coach were in the wrong and pressuring the coach to resign.

I feel sorry for the accuser but not that sorry because she lied. She lied big time. And she got caught lying so I have not much sympathy for her. Then, once she made a false accusation, the media jumped all over it and as the documentary said “like people hanging ornaments on a Christmas tree” people came out of the woodworks to assume the Duke players did it and all the other stuff they wanted to complain about came out.

As #7 said, some Duke faculty got up on their soap box and made statements … libelous, I don’t know … but they should know better, as educated people, than to assume facts beforehand. A lot of it goes back to Nifong though. He knew the accusers statements kept changing, he knew the DNA evidence was exculpatory, he probably knew the lead detective doctored his notes to make the descriptions fit the three arrested and he STILL WENT FORWARD with the case! Unreal!

I wonder how Nifong felt when he was informed he was taken off the case and the legal authorities were going to have hearings to disbar his legal license. I wonder if he wished he had paid attention in school a little more. He had to know it was over then. Did you folks see the part where one of the defense lawyers, using cell phone records, basically proved that the accuser could not have been assaulted by the men arrested at the time she said. Even if the DNA evidence had stood up there was clear evidence that the three arrested were 100% absolutely innocent.

For the cop who took his own life a few years after this event …

I wonder how many other police reports he doctored. I can’t say I am sad the way his life ended. Nifong is still alive but he probably realizes now that one’s actions damned sure have consequences.