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The first rule of holes is when you find you've dug yourself into one, stop digging. A specialized corollary of that is when you've been caught withholding exculpatory evidence, you need to reveal everything you have right then. It appears that Mike Nifong has failed to learn this lesson and now people are no longer talking about disbarment as the worst case scenario, but are mentioning prison. Even my old boss, Norm Early has stopped apologizing for Nifong. No fool Norm.

Here's what the defense is alleging in a 39 page motion to dismiss they filed yesterday. Nifong and the head of the private DNA firm he used to retest the samples after the initial tests proved the three Duke lacrosse players he had accused of rape were innocent, Brian Meehan, apparently conspired to keep back the fact that there was the DNA of five males (none of them a Duke lacrosse player) in the vagina and anus of the so-called victim. Rather than come completely clean (if that word applies in this case) and revealing all the results of the analysis, the discovery of the DNA of at least two more males in the so-called victim's anus was not revealed, late, in December 2006.

An oversight, I'm sure.

The accuser tells a different story of the (non) rape every time she talks; and she's carrying in every orifice a lot of evidence that she's an easy lay or a prostitute but which evidence exonerates the three she apparently picked at random from the can't choose wrong photo line-up. Oh yeah, she's the dream single witness of rape. No sane and prudent DA would have brought these charges and I'm pretty sure Mike Nifong is kicking himself for doing so. If he's not, he's a fool as well as a soon to be former NC lawyer or worse.