What is still driving this case. Nifong has already won the election, he is considered an honorary black man, yadda yadda yadda. Why is he still on about it?
Regards,
Shodan
I guess what I meant to ask is that does the DA have enough evidence, assuming the public was not a consideration at all, that the the case should be persued?
Of course he has enough evidence to proceed. Does he have enough to convict? Sure doesn’t sound like it, but you never know.
Best guess? He can’t just back away from it now; he’s invested too much of his image. He needs to go to trial. Then he can lose, and say that he tried. If the judge rules any of his more outrageous stunts inadmissible, there’s a possible scapegoat right there – etc, etc.
The N&O submits a correction.
On ESPN yesterday they mentioned that the coach who resigned (Pressman?) just got a new job at a school in the AA conference. Possibly Rochester, though I’m not 100% sure.
It was also mentioned that he had been the lacrosse coach at Duke for 16 years. I’m thinking that the Rochester (or wherever he is now) program will experience marked improvement.
Pressler is now the coach at Bryant University in Rhode Island.
The unnerving thing is that this might turn out like the OJ trial - where what seemed to be obvious facts were disregarded on apparently racial grounds.
What if Nifong finds twelve people as idiotic as the OJ jurors, and they vote to convict? If the electorate of his county are dumb enough to support him for re-election based on his actions to date, what are the odds that they are dumb enough to convict someone based on his actions at trial?
Regards,
Shodan
I know what you mean, man. Sure, Furhman was shown to be a lying, racist scumbag who admitted on tape to fabricating probable cause in cases involving black guys, but the jury really should have overlooked that. Who cares if the guy was the lead investigator? Just a bit part, really. So what if all the evidence he came in contact with became suspect once it came out that he was a lying, law-breaking son of a bitch? The jury was just a pack of race-blinded idiots, each and every one, even the two white ones and the Latino!
I don’t know. What are the odds of you conceding that perhaps other people may be more qualified than you in determining what happened on the night in question?
Hmmm… Not my area. Bricker, may a prosector insist on a jury if the defendant waives and requests a bench trial??
If it happens, then the courts will find an excuse to vacate the verdict and order a new trial. The defendants are obviously innocent and a conviction would not be allowed to stand. Mainly because it would make the North Carolina justice system look bad.
In Virgina, and I suspect everywhere else as well… yes. The right to a jury trial belongs to both sides, and both must waive it.
In the vast majority of cases, of course, the Commonwealth would be only too happy to have a bench trial.
Well, you are certainly correct about the race-blinded part. I might even go so far as to say that anyone who thinks OJ is innocent is also a race-blinded idiot.
If you mean the night OJ cut the throats of his ex-wife and a stranger, then the odds are pretty poor. To be qualified to determine if OJ actually killed two people, they would need to be able to take into account actual evidence, and not be a bunch of racist morons. Stuff like the fact that the blood evidence the defense claimed was planted was actually collected several hours before any blood was taken from OJ, the fact that OJ never mentioned anything about the police framing him in his “suicide” note before the Bronco chase (he thanked the police for the way they treated him - would an innocent man who was being framed do that?) - details like that.
OJ killed two people with a knife. Only racists and idiots believe otherwise. Yes, there is a lot of overlap between those groups.
As in your case. 
Regards,
Shodan
I wish I could be sure of this, but, as the OJ verdict indicates, it is not necessarily true that it always works this way.
I am sure Bricker will be glad to cite instances of innocent people being convicted.
And by the way, welcome to the boards.
Regards,
Shodan
Actually, I was talking about the Duke case. Seeing how that’s what this thread is about, right? Not OJ. Yeah, the similarities between the two cases are uncanny. Easy to get confused, I know.
I was just reading back through the thread this morning. I hate to dredge up something so controversial but I was fascinated by the disparity between black on white rapes and white on black rapes. That was an early indication that something was suspect about the case.
Aaaaaannnnnnndddddd…we’re off. Again. I suspect.
Well,since most of your post was about the OJ case, it is easy to get confused. Unless you signal your turns a bit better.
You mean like Nifong has, or the OJ jury did? Still pretty poor.
No way - what we have learned is that, just because something is rare is no reason to believe it didn’t happen. Or something.
Regards,
Shodan
No, no, no – didn’t you read the rest of the thread? You cannot possibly make any sort of a judgement about how likely an event is by looking at how likely that event is. Don’t you know anything???