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January 12, 2007

All I Can Say Is

...you GO, girl.

...The fact that Nifong withheld the information and knew it before he indicted their sons has outraged the parents of the accused. "You felt like someone hit you with a baseball bat. … It was almost too much to bear, as we sat there," says Kathy Seligmann, whose son, Reade, is among the three indicted players. "And [Nifong is] sitting 10 feet away from us."

It enraged Mary Ellen Finnerty, mother of Collin Finnerty, another indicted player. "I think [I felt] one of the strongest feelings of rage that I've had … I literally had to turn to my husband, because I was shaking from my head to my toe, and say, 'Hold me down,'" recalls Finnerty. Adds Seligmann, "And we had to hold on to each other because when you sit there and put two and two together and realize that it was calculated … set up to make these boys appear to be guilty of something they didn't do."

When asked what they would say to Nifong if he were in the room, Rae Evans, the mother of indicted player David Evans, says, "I would say with a smile on my face,

'Mr. Nifong, you've picked on the wrong families … and you will pay every day for the rest of your life.'"

For the sake of every citizen who ever has to face 'justice', here's hoping.

Posted by tree hugging sister at January 12, 2007 11:21 AM

Comments

Great articles esp the previous one. Criminal behaviour by the prosecuters. I hope some of the sleazy press takes a week off digging through Lindsay, Britney and Paris's trash to dig into Mr Nifong's history, anyone that fucked up must have stuff worth digging for.
There should be a simple rule for all people in positions of trust and power, if they mistreat or wrongly fuck up other people's lives from or through their position of power they face the same penalties they brought upon the innocent parties not just censure, dismissal or similar crap.

Posted by: colin at January 12, 2007 12:28 PM

There should most certainly be some sort of malfeasance/malicious prosecution mulct available, if just for deterrent's sake.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 12, 2007 12:43 PM

I want to add that these three families are in the extraordinary position of actually being able to go after Nifong and hound him to the end of the earth. God bless 'em and have at it. The majority of abuses perpetrated by prosecutors are unchallenged simply because the defendent hasn't the wherewithal or resources to hang in there. They have to rely on someone somewhere in the court chain to throw the flag.

Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 12, 2007 12:46 PM

I imagine that, if he had a conscience, Nifong would be sweating blood about now.

Posted by: The_Real_JeffS at January 12, 2007 02:44 PM

Excellent.

Posted by: colin at January 12, 2007 06:39 PM