The abuse of power by public trough swilling government tyrants will only get worse as the cancer of too much government continues to grow. Fortunately there are some who recognize their duty such as the North Carolina Attorney General did in this case. Also, where is a meaningful response from Jackin Jesse after he inflamed the situation for so many months? His comments are pathetic. He should a least admit that he was full of feces.

They could afford it and had lawyers who were better than any ACLU types.

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We might also wonder why some of these other groups seem to have been conspicuous by their absence and their silence :

National Lawyers Guild;
Southern Poverty Law Center.

I'm also curious about the victim in this case.  Where does she stand re her possible responsibility for false accusations?  


In fairness, as noted by another poster, this is not the type of thing that would traditionally fall under the purview of theA CLU.  I'm hoping that many individual members of that org would be aware of the travesty presented in this case.

Nifong bids fair to be disbarred and very vulnerable to sanction by the NC criminal justice system.  Withholding exculpatory evidence, that's really a severe no-no, and not a laughing matter under any circumstances, no what who the defendant and what the alleged crime.

If Nifong is criminally sanctioned, I'd imagine that he will spend the next decade in court defendinghimself from civil suits brought by the Duke students in question.

I must dissent from your last idea, though I understand the anger which gives rise to them.  Persons are committed to prison as punishment, not for punishment.  Criminal violence and victimization of one inmate by another is no joke.