Nifong To Go Before The Bar

It appears the North Carolina Bar has had Duke lacrosse case prosecutor D.A. Nifong's number for quite a while, having opened a file on him within two weeks of Crystal Mangum's now fizzled accusation:

The North Carolina bar filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, accusing him of saying misleading or inflammatory things to the news media about the athletes under suspicion.

The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment.

Among the four rules of professional conduct that District Attorney Mike Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments "that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused."

The charges will be heard by an independent body called the Disciplinary Hearing Commission, made up of both lawyers and non-lawyers.

In a statement, the bar said it opened a case against Nifong in March 30, a little more than two weeks after the party where a 28-year-old student at North Carolina Central University hired to perform as a stripper said she was raped.

Another of the charges was "dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation." I can't imagine where they got that stuff.

More on the "quintessential bad DA" here, and The Smoking Gun has all the relevant papers here.

Complete analysis over at KC Johnson's.

And Mary Katherine Ham gives a guided tour of places in Durham where things didn't happen:

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Posted by floridacracker at December 28, 2006 08:16 PM