Comments on: The Final Chapter In The Duke Lacrosse Case http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 22 May 2013 18:26:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-50005 UCrawford Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:17:15 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-50005 Yeah, public defenders don’t really make enough to cover a $30 million per victim judgment against you. I think he had a house and some savings and that’s gone.

I do honestly wonder what he’s going to do with himself now…probably move to someplace like Florida where it’s tough to garnish wages or seize property.

http://library.findlaw.com/1998/Dec/1/126478.html

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-50004 Doug Mataconis Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:06:38 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-50004 True, but if he has no assets it really doesn’t matter does it ?

]]> By: Brian T. Traylor http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-50000 Brian T. Traylor Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:57:42 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-50000

There are some exceptions to complete discharge under bankruptcy law, but they wouldn’t seem to apply in this situation.

One of those exceptions is that if the bankruptcy judge determines that his errant prosecution of the Duke kids was criminal in nature, any awards to the Duke kids in their civil suits won’t be erased.

He’s not out of the water yet.

]]> By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-49863 UCrawford Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:00:54 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-49863 And I hope that every other hack out there who’s thinking of doing the same type of thing is paying attention.

]]> By: UCrawford http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-49859 UCrawford Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:51:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2008/01/15/the-final-chapter-in-the-duke-lacrosse-case/#comment-49859 You know, every once in awhile I feel a little sorry for the guy. I mean, he’s got family, kids, a life. This case has destroyed him.

Then I read through the case again just to remind me of all the bullshit that he pulled and how he withheld evidence, and smeared the accused in the press, and ignored all the holes in the “victim’s” story, and basically ran all of those kids through a meatgrinder for no other apparent reason than to pander for votes for his reelection, and I think about my cousin who was in a very similar situation with a high-profile case in New England, and I think about every other slimy politician who bends the legal system and screws with some poor schmoe’s life just to carve out a little niche for himself or keep his job and how most of those guys don’t get caught…

…and then I look again at what happened to Nifong and all I think is “Reap the whirlwind, motherfucker.”

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