Over the past few months I’ve blogged about Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong’s overwhelmingly flimsy case, his uncanny ability to ignore exculpatory evidence and evidence damaging to his case, his inconsistent and contradictory statements to the media and subsequent regret about those statements, and his animosity toward us bloggers.
I even threw in a bit of North Carolina rape shield law analysis.
History News Network blogger KC Johnson recently started a blog dedicated to the Duke case, where he provides much more analysis. Johnson claims that Nifong misrepresented NC rape law when he race-pandered at a forum at North Carolina Central University. Johnson links to Stuart Taylor’s excellent, must-read article at Slate.com, “Witness for the Prosecution?”
If you’re following the Duke case, you may share news, views, and links in this thread.
Update (9/6): Frequent commenter Seahawk drops a link to LieStoppers, which links to a recent motion in the Duke case, a Joint Omnibus Motion To Compel Discovery.
I haven’t read it yet, but Seahawk writes:
Among the new details to emerge:
The AV was at Duke medical center from 2:42 am until 1:37 pm on March 14. (A long time–maybe she was sleeping something off?)
There are VHS tapes of at least two of the ID sessions– the one held for Kim (the second dancer) was not done until May 11– which is AFTER the indictments!
Lots of police internal emails about the case were collected, but then never turned over to the defense. (The defense found out about this email collection on their own while rummaging through the DPD files, but it still hasn’t been turned over)
Nifong (as of the date of the motion) still had not produced the tox report (although he told the judge that he would)
The AV was involved in at least four police probes:
DUI — 2000
Larceny — 2000
Family/Minor — 2000
Child Molestation — 4-26-2004
