Justice Served

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:14 am

Seems a certain N.C. prosecutor will be getting his just dessert:

\"DURHAM, N.C. (AP) - From the day he took over the Duke lacrosse rape case, Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong charged forward with a strident determination that the guilty would end up in jail. Ultimately, the since-disgraced former prosecutor only succeeded at putting himself behind bars.

Nifong was sentenced Friday to a single day in jail, having been held in criminal contempt of court for lying to a judge during his pursuit of rape charges against the three falsely accused lacrosse players.\"

While Nifong is only getting a symbolic jail sentence, I wonder if those professor's who stridently proclaimed the LaCrosse players guilty and the school officials who blocked the players from playing or graduating, shouldn't also serve some \"symbolic\" punishment. I'll let you all come up with fitting punishments.

Testiculese · Post by **Testiculese** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:53 am

1 day? That is stupid. He should really go in for the same number of days that he lied and tried to force a conviction after he found that there was no DNA evidence against them.

TIGERassault · Post by **TIGERassault** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:26 pm

One day.... yeah... he's really getting the punishment he deserves now...

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 2:51 pm

One of those kids is coming here as a 21-year-old sophomore. Now, I've been mildly interested in this case since it broke, but this kid Collin Finnerty has a real rap sheet (assault). There's already plenty of buzz going around among the administrators here that the board is not happy with the new president of the college... if (no, make that when, knowing this campus) this kid gets in a fight it might be the final nail in the coffin.

On the plus side, maybe this will end our recent lacrosse slump. Incoming transfers saved our basketball team for sure this year.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:46 pm

typical white collar punishment, untouchables.

some serious class predudice going on.

i liked how Michael Moore pointed out - how we have shows like Cops showing the \"black males\" getting manhandled into paddy wagons - to goto jail for years for common burglary.

While we watch the news and see White Collar fraudsters who cheat society outof millions at a time, or move to deprive us of our freedoms (as in this case), being lead quietly by plainclothes feds outof the building - only to have a SYMBOLIC night in jail and go onto live their lives.

Compare the cost to society. Burglary vs Judicial Fraud.

Maybe it's like one of those Murderer vs Genocidal Leader things, where we can't fathom so many people dying. We kinda say \"Wow 200,000 people? That's a pretty good effort!\" - we get angrier at the smalltime Murderer. Really shows how when we let our (obviously faulty) emotions decide how to punish people, it doesn't really work properly. Retribution, Revenge, these things are smalltime and don't work for the bigger picture of society.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 12:26 pm

Justice will be ultimately served when the shamed players file civil suits against Nifong. At this juncture, what with Nifong officially convicted of wrong doing, the out come of the civil cases should only have one conclusion.

Zuruck · Post by **Zuruck** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:10 pm

Hah...what's the going sentence for rape and unlawful imprisonment? I think it's more than one day...put the man in a stockade and let the LaX players do what they want to him...who cares?

Bold Deceiver · Post by **Bold Deceiver** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:12 pm

[quote="roid"]Judicial Fraud.quote]

Really?

Ask not for whom the bell tolls....

BD

roid · Post by **roid** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 10:17 pm

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