Durham’s appointed DA Mike Nifong is miffed. He’s miffed because some citizens of Durham are making this election a referendum on Nifong’s prosecutorial misconduct. Here’s what he sent to his supporters (who ARE those people?) in an email yesterday Nifong continued to play the class/race card, saying those working against him have a “sense of entitlement.” According to The Herald-Sun, here’s what he told supporters:
“They have endeavored to make this election something it is not: a referendum on a single case that [they] view as a threat to their sense of entitlement and that they do not trust a jury of Durham citizens to decide,” he said in the e-mail.
In a case where the prosecutor has said this case is not about guilt or innocence but about healing divisions in our community, with a jury chosen from a community where several have expressed the view that if the lacrosse players are not guilty they should be convicted for the past wrongs of white people, where a rogue police officer used his bias against Duke students to charge them in cases where others would get off with a warning, and where a group of 88 Duke professors advocated throwing due process out the window, why wouldn’t these guys and their supporters be trying to keep this from getting before a jury?
