The Duke Case: The AG's "Candor And Scorn"
(CBS)
In a remarkable display of both candor and scorn, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper this afternoon tore into Durham County District Attorney Michael Nifong for his scandalous work in the Duke Lacrosse sexual assault case. Refusing to extend any professional courtesy to his fellow member of the bar, refusing to talk like other public officials talk about one another, Cooper eviscerated Nifong and his strategies and tactics throughout this controversial case, stopping short only when he was asked whether he thought the prosecutor himself should now be brought up on obstruction of justice charges.
What was wrong with Nifong’s work? According to Cooper, the better question to ask is what was right about it. Cooper said his investigation revealed that the eyewitness evidence in the case was “faulty and unreliable.” He said that no “DNA evidence confirmed” the story offered by the alleged victim. He said that “no other witnesses confirmed” her story and that “other evidence” in the case “contradicted” her story. “She contradicts herself,” Cooper added in what surely could be an epitaph to this whole sordid affair. Aside from that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?...
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