Assuming you agree, how could this be accomplished? Charges have been filed with the NC Bar association. Are there other routes?
2006-12-16 15:17:52 · 8 answers · asked by el cabo 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
As an attorney Nifong has a duty to to ensure that fraud is not perpetrated on the court. In addition, as a prosecutor his primary duty is to see that justice is done. If he has acted in contravention of either of these duties, he should at the very least be disbarred. If, upon acquittal or the charges being thrown out, it is revealed that Nifong knew or had reason to know that he was seeking criminal penalties against persons whom he knew to be innocent, then YES he could be prosecuted for violation of their civil rights and sued for malicious prosecution.
This is what you get when you have an elected prosecutor who is more interested in pandering to a certain demographic of voters than to doing justice.
2006-12-16 17:30:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the worst part of all this is that something has been taken from those young men that can NEVER be repaid. They've missed their college graduations, they've been very publicly defamed, and from what I understand there is not a shred of physical evidence to prove the claim.
At the very least, this guy should lose his job. I'm not sure he can be sued civilly as an individual. They would have to sue the state. So Nifong skates and the taxpayers pay for his grievous mistake.
You know, it wouldn't surprise me if they learned that he somehow engineered this whole thing to pay off some grudge against Duke/the lacrosse team.
2006-12-16 15:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by Karen M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think of he's a democrat, yet it relatively is definitely beside the point. The ironic area is he must be the only peron to wind up doing any reformatory time over this finished case. the U. S. dept of justice and US lawyer wide-spread at the instant are looking into civil rights violations and criminal misconduct on the area of Mr. Nifong. besides by using fact the state and native bar. He has wrecked those young ones lives fascinated with political benefit. in simple terms now's he ducking for canopy, yet no longer rapid adequate. He hid the information that suggested those young ones did no longer something, disregarded irrefutable information a minimum of one became nowhere close to the crime and took the unsubstainiated observe of a crack head hooker with a view to added his political profession. He mandatory one extra term to get his finished state pension. specific desire it became nicely worth it whilst the families get executed suing him into the adverse abode!
2016-10-15 02:29:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadly, stupidity isn't against the law. Maybe that's a good thing.
2006-12-16 15:26:44 · answer #4 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, absolutely. Civil in addtion to whatever the state can do.
2006-12-16 15:19:38 · answer #5 · answered by Joe C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. There is a federal grand jury working on that.
2006-12-16 15:24:21 · answer #6 · answered by yupchagee 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WITH HIS MISCONDUCT, WE HAVE TO WAIT AND SEE IF ITS THROWN OUT, HOPEFULLY IT WILL BE. PROSECUTE FOR
MISCONDUCT AND ALSO THE PLAYERS NEED TO SUE FOR MONETARY DAMAGES TOO. THEY LOST A YEAR OF THERE LIVES OF COLLEGE AND ACEDEMICS OVER LIFONG'S MISCONDUCT.
2006-12-16 16:30:11 · answer #7 · answered by sharma 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For malfeasance, or misfeasance or nonfeasance
2006-12-16 15:22:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋