The N&O’s Barry Saunders was just on WRAL-TV saying that Durham wants a district attorney who “hasn’t got a national reputation.” Boy, we set our sights high, don’t we?
Instead, it’s going to get Michael Nifong’s right-hand associate, Tracey Cline, the one who was going to sit second chair in the Duke lacrosse frame-up prosecution.
Read Jason’s post on Cline at the Friends of Duke University blog:
Tracy Cline’s problems are well known. She was Nifong’s second chair in the lacrosse case and would have helped him try the case had it gone to trial.
Cline has tried to claim she was too busy running the courtrooms to know what has happening in the lacrosse case, but Jason begs to differ:
Cline did not need to know one thing about the Lacrosse case to know that Mike Nifong was an unethical attorney and that he should have been reported to the bar. From the very beginning of the hoax, I tried to make the distinction between Nifong’s conduct and the facts of the case. Even if one could plausibly claim not to know all of the facts of the case, all of Nifong’s misconduct took place in public for all to see. Anyone with a television set could watch him do it.
Congratulations, Durham. You could have cleaned house, but you didn’t.
