Sunday, October 29, 2006

Re: Wow   [Jonah Goldberg]

Yeah, the more you think about it  the more outrageous it is. Imagine you're Nifong and you saw that Ed Bradley piece on 60 Minutes making the whole case seem fraudulent to pretty much any rational person. If you were a person of integrity — never mind bound to professional ethics rules — wouldn't you call your witness/accuser into the office on Monday morning and simply ask her the sorts of serious questions you needed to? Or wouldn't you call in your most trusted aide and say, "get to the bottom of this." I mean, it's just astounding. He's creating the impression that he actively doesn't care about the facts.

By the way, I got this email yesterday:

I've been a prosecutor in Michigan for almost 32 years (I briefed and
argued the Hudson v Michigan "knock and announce" case this year) and I
was astounded to read that not only had the charges here been brought
without the DA's Office  interviewing the alleged victim, but that she
has yet to be interviewed by the DA's office.   One doesn't bring
charges in assaultive cases, especially of the sort here, without first
interviewing the alleged victim.  I've simply never heard of such a
thing.

10/29 08:16 AMShare