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Nifong: "$34.99 Is My Final Offer"

By K.C. Johnson

The N&O reports that Nifong attorney Jim Craven filed a brief today asserting that the three lacrosse players unethically prosecuted by the disgraced ex-D.A. "will never collect so much as $35 from Mike Nifong." Apparently, then, $34.99 is still on the table.Attorney Jim Craven also implied that Nifong was being victimized by the system and the lacrosse players, who knew of his inability to pay more than $34.99, "yet still they come." His brief also cited a heretofore unrevealed "Duke University alumnus" of unknown identity (the tooth fairy, perhaps?) who allegedly paid off all the players' legal bills.Even if Nifong had more than $34.99 to spare, Craven implied, the case against his client would be without merit. Craven dismissed the civil suit filings (which detailed Nifong's decision to press ahead with the case despite having no credible evidence, his decision to instruct the DPD to run a third lineup violating the department's own procedures, his ethically improper and factually inaccurate public statements, his lying to the court--resulting in a criminal contempt conviction, and his decision to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence) as "hyperbolic pleading, unworthy of belief...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 15, 2008 (boomark / email).