[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 15671-15672]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          PROSECUTOR GONE WILD

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, North Carolina District Attorney Michael Nifong 
finds himself the accused and not the accuser this week. It seems his 
overzealous desire to make headlines by appealing to political 
pandering and making false allegations against three innocent Duke 
University lacrosse players has landed him in trouble.
  The State Bar Association charged Nifong with making outlandish 
prejudicial public comments against the players and hiding evidence, 
and they want him disbarred.
  Independent special prosecutors have found the sexual assault charges 
against the players to be unfounded, but Prosecutor Nifong tried to put 
them in jail anyway.
  The mere accusation of sexual assault, even when false, can ruin an 
individual.
  The role of the prosecutor is to seek, not convictions.
  Rogue D.A. Nifong is yet another example of a prosecutor gone wild 
and an abuser of power. If the allegations against him are true, he 
joins the wall of shame and should never be allowed

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near the courthouse again, except maybe as a defendant.
  Because justice is the one thing we should always find.
  And that's just the way it is.

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