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In reply to the discussion: City, Duke lacrosse players settle [View all]mahatmakanejeeves
(58,029 posts)21. If you're a glutton for punishment, here are some more links.
Eight years. This has been going on for eight years
Nifong Ironies in Settlement
The attempted rehabilitation of Mike Nifong
At DU: Darryl Howard and the rampaging prosecutor: Durham learns little from Duke lacrosse debacle
This is a sad display of prosecutorial misconduct. Maybe malevolence is a better word than misconduct.
From the Washington Post: Darryl Howard and the rampaging prosecutor: Durham learns little from Duke lacrosse debacle
The Watch
A reported opinion blog on civil liberties and the criminal justice system
By Radley Balko March 20 at 12:11 pm
When Darryl Howard was convicted of murder in 1995, he cried out I didnt do it! then sobbed in open court. He has maintained his innocence ever since.
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Now, newly discovered evidence further argues for Howards innocence. In court papers filed this week, the Innocence Project reveals that DNA testing of a rape kit taken from Doris Washington found some sperm that went undetected during the initial investigation. That sperm is a match to a career criminal, not to Howard. Attorneys for Howard have also uncovered evidence that prosecutors in the case may have withheld important exculpatory evidence, including a credible statement from an informant days after the murder who attributed the crimes to a local gang, not to Darryl Howard.
Discovery of the memo, which was known to police and should have been known to prosecutors, shows that the state failed to turn over relevant evidence pointing to Howards innocence. But the contents of the memo also suggest that Howards prosecutor not only put on perjurious testimony from a police investigator, he then used that evidence to give false statements in court himself.
Perhaps most interesting of all is just who that prosecutor was: Michael Nifong, then an assistant district attorney for Durham County. Nifong of course would later be appointed, then elected district attorney, and then make national headlines in 2006 when he falsely charged three Duke University lacrosse players with sexually assaulting a stripper. In 2007 Nifong was disbarred for his handling of evidence in that case. He was also found in contempt for making false statements about the case in court.
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Plaintiffs originally filed for $30 million on a conspiracy theory, much of which
struggle4progress
May 2014
#10
As I recall, there was a city employed policeman also involved in the railroad job. n/t
pnwmom
May 2014
#11
I am very familiar with the case, and strongly supported the students here on DU.
pnwmom
May 2014
#18
One of her victims is actually dead. Considering she was convicted of killing her boyfriend.
LisaL
May 2014
#5
The lacross players should own large portions of the school at this point .IMHO
weissmam
May 2014
#6
Future victims of Nifong lucked out because he attacked the wrong group of young people.
pnwmom
May 2014
#12