Mike Nifong, Prosecutors Gone Wild!
NIFONG
PROECUTORS GONE WILD!!
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina –
Three Duke University students were finally out from under the nightmare of false prosecution by the Durham, North Carolina District Attorney, Mike Nifong. After more than a year under the gun as accused rapists, these three Duke Lacrosse team members and students are finally free.
What was NIFONG thinking?
Our justice system is based on the innocent be proven guilty “BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT”. Nifong appeared to do the case backwards. He found the students publicly guilty, using the media, elevating his public image as a crusader against crime and hate in the Raleigh Durham community.
On the surface, Nifong became trapped by his own words, months before the investigation was complete. He covered errors, ignored changes in statements by the alleged victim and hid the results of the DNA test, which exonerated the accused. NO MATCH! He also knew early on that the results of the rape test kit did not match the students. What was his motivation? www.CrimeTalkAmerica.com examined some of these questions as have others.
After careful review by the State of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped the charges when a special investigation found “significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness” He further found that the three students “are innocent” and that his own investigation “led us to the conclusion that no attack occurred.”
So after one year of being on the hot seat, these young men, had the cloud lifted? However, they will always be remembered as the “Duke Three”. While time will pass, the year has not only interrupted their education and life but that of their families and friends. All had true good spirits considering the year’s horrific experience. Perhaps they will now get on with life, and we at CrimeTalkAmerica hope that they NEVER sit back and accept our justice system as being fair and balanced.
This incident is not the first, but highlights, how the power of the Justice System can not only disrupt lives, but convict the innocent. We find at times convicted rapists; murderers and other criminals serving sentences are released after they’ve had a further examination of the facts, review of the evidence and independent DNA testing. How many have walked out of prison after professionals like the “INNOCENSE PROJECT” led by Attorney’s Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, discovered factual data, DNA tests and other evidence. The answer is many across America.
What Nifong did is inexcusable. His “overreaching” in this case, questions the process and protections. Had the three students not have the family support, the financial ability to find private counsel to work and fight the D.A., and the ability to remain positive. Perhaps the less fortunate, they would be sentenced and sitting in a prison, careers and lives and families left in shambles.
What about Nifong? He’s still the District Attorney, with NO CREDABILITY. He must go! Any of his lieutenants, associates that were aiding in the cover-up also need to go!
CrimeTalkAmerica finds the need to have a citizen groups monitor and watch for overzealous prosecutors. Holding back exculpatory evidence is a common practice of prosecutors. Often, only after discovery of misbehavior, cover-ups and true facts, does the cooperation from the prosecutor occur. Defense Attorney’s often know the prosecutors that fudge the information, hide the truth and only want to put a check mark in the conviction box. They often look the other way.
What do you think? Let us know!!!
PROECUTORS GONE WILD!!
Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina –
Three Duke University students were finally out from under the nightmare of false prosecution by the Durham, North Carolina District Attorney, Mike Nifong. After more than a year under the gun as accused rapists, these three Duke Lacrosse team members and students are finally free.
What was NIFONG thinking?
Our justice system is based on the innocent be proven guilty “BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT”. Nifong appeared to do the case backwards. He found the students publicly guilty, using the media, elevating his public image as a crusader against crime and hate in the Raleigh Durham community.
On the surface, Nifong became trapped by his own words, months before the investigation was complete. He covered errors, ignored changes in statements by the alleged victim and hid the results of the DNA test, which exonerated the accused. NO MATCH! He also knew early on that the results of the rape test kit did not match the students. What was his motivation? www.CrimeTalkAmerica.com examined some of these questions as have others.
After careful review by the State of North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper dropped the charges when a special investigation found “significant inconsistencies between the evidence and the various accounts given by the accusing witness” He further found that the three students “are innocent” and that his own investigation “led us to the conclusion that no attack occurred.”
So after one year of being on the hot seat, these young men, had the cloud lifted? However, they will always be remembered as the “Duke Three”. While time will pass, the year has not only interrupted their education and life but that of their families and friends. All had true good spirits considering the year’s horrific experience. Perhaps they will now get on with life, and we at CrimeTalkAmerica hope that they NEVER sit back and accept our justice system as being fair and balanced.
This incident is not the first, but highlights, how the power of the Justice System can not only disrupt lives, but convict the innocent. We find at times convicted rapists; murderers and other criminals serving sentences are released after they’ve had a further examination of the facts, review of the evidence and independent DNA testing. How many have walked out of prison after professionals like the “INNOCENSE PROJECT” led by Attorney’s Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, discovered factual data, DNA tests and other evidence. The answer is many across America.
What Nifong did is inexcusable. His “overreaching” in this case, questions the process and protections. Had the three students not have the family support, the financial ability to find private counsel to work and fight the D.A., and the ability to remain positive. Perhaps the less fortunate, they would be sentenced and sitting in a prison, careers and lives and families left in shambles.
What about Nifong? He’s still the District Attorney, with NO CREDABILITY. He must go! Any of his lieutenants, associates that were aiding in the cover-up also need to go!
CrimeTalkAmerica finds the need to have a citizen groups monitor and watch for overzealous prosecutors. Holding back exculpatory evidence is a common practice of prosecutors. Often, only after discovery of misbehavior, cover-ups and true facts, does the cooperation from the prosecutor occur. Defense Attorney’s often know the prosecutors that fudge the information, hide the truth and only want to put a check mark in the conviction box. They often look the other way.
What do you think? Let us know!!!
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