Are taxpayer supporting her hideaway? Isn’t it time to prosecute her- civil and then criminal.

http://www.newsobserver.com/145/story/515346.html

DURHAM – A grand jury indicted the daughter of Durham’s police chief Monday in a felony assault case. Stefanie Chalmers, 26, was charged in June with assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury in connection with an incident in April.

Authorities say Chalmers hit a woman with a motor vehicle.

But curiously,

The case against Chalmers, the daughter of Durham Police Chief Steve Chalmers, is being prosecuted by the state Attorney General’s Office.

Now why by the state AG’s office, instead of by DA Nifong?

Her attorney, James “Butch” Williams, said he could not comment on specifics of the case. “I’m looking forward to vigorously defending this action,” he said.

Williams endorsed Nifong in the recent election in glowing terms.

I can only speculate why it was felt necessary to have the daughter’s trial handled by someone other than the local DA, but not have the three lacrosse players’ case handled by someone other than the local DA.

Likewise, I can only speculate why the Chief of Police has been totally invisible since the lacrosse case broke.

His daughter was, IIRC, finally arrested on outstanding warrants just after the lacrosse case broke–but surely that, like the sudden arrests of so many associates of the AV, and the trial of Elmostafa–must surely all be just coincidence?

(Gell spent 9 years on death row for murder; it turned out that no less than eighteen witnesses had seen the ‘deceased’ after Gell was supposed to have killed him and had left the state–meaning that if he was killed, then someone else killed him, not Gell.)

(But the DA kept this info from the defense and the jury. For that, they got a slap on the wrist; and one
of the prosecutorial staff is now a judge.
A man lost 9 years of his life, and was put in jeopardy of his life–and the NC bar thought this was worthy of a ‘reprimand’. . .)

Thanks for clearing that up. I had vaguely recalled that in Kentucky disciplinary investigations are conducted by that state’s Bar Association, and for some reason had assumed that might also have been the case in North Carolina.

I could go on, but the more pressing question for Kemp is — what’s gonna happen to Amato if your Wolfies lose to ECU tomorrow?

Have you heard it on good authority that the NC Bar Association will act that soon?

Add Thomas Sowell to that list. And a columnist for the New York Daily News (sorry that his name escapes me for the moment).

I lament that Darryl Hunt has not decided to speak out (freed by DNA testing from a NC prison after serving 19 years for a rape/murder he did not commit; he spoke to the Duke Law freshmen a couple of years ago. I am tempted–but will restrain my acid tongue–from commenting on whether any of the freshmen learned anything from his remarks, which were about over-zealous DAs and the need to ‘do right’, and not just seek a victory in the courtroom. . .)

we should, I guess, pray for Nifungu, since soon he will not have a law license or a job, but he has made his bed and he will have to sleep in it. The NC Bar will act BEFORE Christmas. God Bless them. Kemp

Ed Bradley (and his committment to getting the truth about this case out was such that he continued to work on it in his final weeks, even going back to Durham for more interviews after the Sept. 22 gag order was lifted. He was of such stature that he could have delegated this to someone else, but he wanted to see it through himself.)

Al Sharpton (Believe it or not, I’ve heard twice that he early on said he thought the accuser was a liar, but I’ve never seen this followed up in print or in the media. I hope it is true; and I hope he will make his opinion more visible; it would be a good chance at penintance for him at this stage of his life.)

On your remark, “The current list of Duke bloggers are all white males, I presume.”, there are two Joan’s that do a great job blogging. You catch Joan Foster at Liestoppers and some work by Joan Collins (interview with the Finnerty’s mother) at FODU.

That makes 3 I know of that do a fine job blogging on this case!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!