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Nifong issues ‘apology’ to Duke lacrosse players

Posted by: Sister Toldjah on April 12, 2007 at 4:12 pm

Via AP:

DURHAM, N.C. –The local prosecutor who charged three Duke lacrosse players with raping a stripper apologized to the athletes Thursday, acknowledging that the North Carolina attorney general’s decision to drop the case was correct.

“To the extent that I made judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect, I apologize to the three students that were wrongly accused,” Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong said in a statement.

Nifong’s apology came the day after Attorney General Roy Cooper not only dropped all remaining charges against the players Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans, but declared them innocent and said they were the victims of Nifong’s “tragic rush to accuse.”

“I also understand that whenever someone has been wrongly accused, the harm caused by the accusations might not be immediately undone merely by dismissing them,” Nifong said. “It is my sincere desire that the actions of Attorney General Cooper will serve to remedy any remaining injury that has resulted from these cases.”

“Judgments that ultimately proved to be incorrect“?? How about judgements that were wrong to begin with – like the deal he struck with the DNA chief to not release all of the results from the DNA tests? That’s not merely ‘incorrect’ – it’s wrong, and more importantly, illegal.

Nifong’s clearly trying to save face but at this point his apology is meaningless. He’ll get his just desserts in June when his trial starts.

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    1. southcst1 says:
      April 12, 2007 at 5:13 pm

      Do you think he smells the multi-million dollar civil suits? He’s somewhat protected, but they can have a field day if they can prove his mishandling of this case was for personal gain in any way. Such as, an election. That doesn’t look to be difficult.

    2. benning says:
      April 12, 2007 at 7:33 pm

      Nifong is a pustulent bastard and deserves to be disbarred, disgraced, and impeached!

    3. Mwalimu Daudi says:
      April 12, 2007 at 8:13 pm

      Glenn Reynolds has some excellent analysis of the media’s less-than-exemplary role in the case.

      A key quote:

      In the conventional imagination, it used to be — see To Kill a Mockingbird or reports of the Scottsboro rape trial — that it was the noble fairness-obsessed lefties who supported due process against the ignorant right-wing hicks who tried to lynch people out of a mixture of racism, political opportunism borne of racism, journalistic sensationalism, and sheer meanness. Now the hats have switched. That’s worth noting.

    4. Sister Toldjah says:
      April 12, 2007 at 8:49 pm

      Thanks MD! I just included that link in the latest post I’ve written up about this, and le affaire de Imus.

    5. Great White Rat says:
      April 13, 2007 at 12:34 am

      Ethics charges? This clown ought to be brought to trial for complete malfeasance and misfeasance of his office. And if convicted, do as much hard time as those three lacrosse players would have done.