Comments on: An Out Of Control Prosecutor http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: trav.is http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/#comment-8600 trav.is Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:13:29 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/#comment-8600 In either case, though, it’s clear that an out of control prosecutor can be as much a danger to civil liberties as a cop with an itchy trigger finger.

It could be argued that any public official can be such a danger when their role is overly politicized. Nifong, in order to become a prosecutor, “first had to be a politician. You don’t need me to tell you politicians, often playing the media like a fiddle, can be dangerous to liberties.

]]> By: Brock Townsend http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/#comment-8370 Brock Townsend Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:11:14 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/#comment-8370 New Ethics Charges For Duke Prosecutor (AP)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_re_us/duke_lacrosse
“The state bar lodged …… lying to both to the court and bar investigators.”
“If these allegations are true and if they don’t justify disbarment, then I’m not sure what does,” said Joseph Kennedy, a law professor at the University of North Carolina. “It’s hard for me to imagine a more serious set of allegations against a prosecutor.”

]]> By: The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » The Scales of Justice Need Rebalancing http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/#comment-8290 The Liberty Papers»Blog Archive » The Scales of Justice Need Rebalancing Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:28:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/01/24/an-out-of-control-prosecutor/#comment-8290 [...] The so-called Duke Rape Case has many of these unfortunate elements of our criminal justice system. The MSM had largely made up its mind that the Duke lacrosse players David Evans, Collin Finnerty, and Reade Seligmann had raped and/or sexually assaulted a stripper by the name of Crystal Gail Magnum (the name has largely been not mentioned in the MSM). Without any trial or any kind of finding of facts, Duke students and faculty protested in favor of Magnum’s allegations holding up signs and shouting about how these boys should be neutered. The president of Duke University also reacted by canceling the remainder of the team’s games. [...]

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