Nifong to Face Bar Discipline
posted by Dave Hoffman
N.C. D.A. Mike Nifong will face a bar charges, according to the AP (via Drudge). The weird part: the Bar opened its investigation last March!
Among the four rules of professional conduct that Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments “that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused.”In a statement, the bar said it opened a case against Nifong on March 30, a little more than two weeks after a 28-year-old woman hired to perform as a stripper at a lacrosse team party said she was gang-raped.
You can find the complaint here. And helpful comments at the Legal Ethics Forum, of course. I agree with John Steele that Nifong will raise 1A objections, but it seems that he is poorly positioned to make them stick.
December 28, 2006 at 8:39 pm
Posted in: Legal Ethics
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