Duke DNA Cover-Up Transcript

[madmusic]

Mike

http://durhamwonderland.blogspot.com/2006/12/meehan-transcript.html">This is one of the most shocking court transcript I've ever read. If Mike Nifong is not disbarred after the (forthcoming, I'm certain) dismissal in the Duke rape hoax, then the North Carolina Bar should stop pretending that it enforces the laws governing lawyers, and simply disband itself.

http://federalism.typepad.com/crime_federalism/2006/12/duke_dna_coveru.html

[wakeme2008]

1. that transcript is unbelievable

:grr:

[madmusic]

2. It's unfortunate that something scientifically sound...

is so abused. DNA is tool that can prove guilt AND innocence. It is not a toy and should not be played with like that.

ACLU of Texas testimony to the Senate Criminal Justice Committee
Houston Community College Conference Center, January 4, 2005
By Scott Henson, Director, Police Accountability Project

Framed innocents in Tulia and Hearne and false convictions based on bad forensic analysis have created a crisis of confidence in Texas’ criminal justice system. Please consider the following as you move to fix it:

Set reasonable expectations:

Don’t view the issue as atomic – crime lab lapses are a microcosm within a system geared toward maximizing the ease with which convictions can be obtained. Innocent people aren’t convicted because one lab technician makes an error. Innocents are convicted when the actors in the system don’t care that innocents are convicted. This committee should examine all the reasons innocent people are convicted, including but not just limited to the role of forensics.

more: http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2005/01/aclu-of-texas-crime-lab-testimony-in.html

[MrCoffee]

3. Nifong must be running on pure ego right now...

there's very little else that seems to be supporting any charges at all against these guys, other than his own hyper-inflated pigheadedness.