I predict a large civil suit filed by the 3 Duke students against Nifong and the city for prosecutorial malfeasance once this travesty has been thrown out of court.
It will do little to restore their lives but should make having to work for a living an alternative option. What a low life (insert explitive) he has been.

It's absolutely amazing what this clown has gone through to railroad these guys.

It's further amazing that he figured that he'd get away with it in the long term.

And Meehan needs to be nailed for his part in this, too. From the wording/excuses you know he was aware of what was going on, but went along with it anyway.

Nifong should be prosecuted and probably will be but what about Duke University? The falsely accused students, the coach, the Lacrosse program, were all eagerly dispatched by the University without the benefit of a trial.

When Nifong is done, the next series of lawsuits should rain down on Duke University and they should be carried on without mercy. There ought to be a day in court, afterall.

Ditto on the remarks so far...you know, what baffles me...aside from Nifong thinking this would go away after his election, is that this group of young men couldn't muster enough...well, *brains* amongst them
to realize how vulnerable they left themselves by
hiring such a piece of shit.
C'mon guys...the litigious society we have become ??

Guess they don't have like football groupies for lacrosse players...so they had to resort to hiring
her.

Unfortunately, this kind of foolishness occurs occasionally in North Carolina. I blame the state's method of assigning judges to cases. As part of the civil rights movement, complaints were raised across the South that there were not enough black judges in rural court circuits.

North Carolina solved the problem by simply eliminating the kinds of districts used in most states. A judge can be assigned a case anywhere in the state - meaning he or she can have cases from one end of the state to the other - about 400 miles. As a result, it's generally months between visits by the judge to the court house where the case is being considered. Prosecutors use these long delays to force defendants into pleas. I'm familiar with a child molestation case in which no one was finally convicted, including the man accused of doing the molesting. Several people pleaded guilty to lesser offenses because they had been in jail for years without a trial.

The right to a speedy trial simply doesn't exist in North Carolina. It will be interesting to see how much longer the prosecutor can drag this case out. At least the defendants are not in jail.

"The right to a speedy trial simply doesn't exist in North Carolina." -JP

And that doesn't seem to be unique to NC, but nevertheless it continues on across the country because all of that down time and waiting is still an opportunity to bill clients. I don't expect that will change.

As for the lacrosse players/Duke students, well, they were tried and convicted on TV. They are done and I blame the school for not standing up for their right to a presumption of innocence. It may be apparent that I'm not a supporter of litigation for fun and profit but I do believe that everyone from the lacrosse coach to the waterboy ought be filing a claim against the University. Civil rights were violated and the school is one of the worst offenders. Heads should be rolling on the Duke faculty and administration.

Universities have become stalwarts for political correctness and the injustice served to the lacrosse players and coach is a direct result. This is the human price and now it is time for those responsible at Duke to pay with their careers.