Durham North Carolina: Your Typical Banana Republic

This story over at Lie Stoppers is pretty scary and it shows that Durham North Carolina really isn't all that different from your typical third world country like Nicaragua. On November 23, 2006, Nashville native Eric Volz was arrested in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua for the rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend, Doris Ivanez Jimenez. Despite conclusive evidence that he ...

Duke Lacrosse Rape Case

Drudge is reporting (top of the right hand column, no links yet) that all charges may be dropped as early tomorrow in the ridiculous Duke Lacrosse rape case. It was also reported that this news caused Amanda Marcotte's head to explode. Update: Still no news about the charges being dropped, but this is an interesting article that references Linda ...

Defense Still Not Given the DNA Report

The Duke Lacrosse case has become a complete joke and it is hard to imagine it becoming even more ridiculous, but several weeks after learning the Nifong and Dr. Meehan of DNA Security agreed to withold potentially exculpatory evidence from the defense...the defense attorneys have still not seen the DNA report. Defense lawyers in the Duke lacrosse case still have not ...

Marcotte Is Out

At least that is the word from Salon. Also out is Melissa McEwan who was hired to be Edwards' Netroots Coordinator. The article at Salon indicates that Marcotte and McEwan might be rehired, so take this with a cannister of salt. UPDATE (James Joyner): Wow. The problem with this is that it makes Edwards look incredibly inept ...

More on Marcotte

K.C. Johnson has more on Amanda Marcotte. One possible defense for Edwards in hiring Marcotte is that Edwards was not aware of it and had little input in the decision (e.g., go get us a blogger for our campaign blog). Johnson points out that this is hard to believe because it was fairly widely known that Marcotte was ...

Senator Handsome’s Official Blogger

Amanda Marcotte is now John Edwards official blogger. She joined the Edwards campaign from Pandagon and I must say it is a rather disappointing pick. The problem with Ms. Marcotte is the following post she wrote (and later deleted...guess she didn't like the criticism), Naturally, my flight out of Atlanta has been delayed. Let’s hope it takes off when ...

Duke Prosecutor Nifong Faces More Charges

Difficulties continue to mount for former Duke rape case prosecutor Mike Nifong, who faces additional ethics charges. The state bar has added ethics charges to a complaint filed against the prosecutor who brought sexual assault charges against three Duke lacrosse players, accusing him of withholding DNA evidence and making misleading statements to the court. The new charges by the North ...

Duke Rape Case: Not So Fast There Mr. Johnson

K.C. Johnson is quite optimistic that with Nifong off the case that the Special Prosecutions Division of the State's Attorney General's office will be a good thing. By contrast, a special prosecutor will undertake a full review of the case—conducting, as Coleman noted, the “kind of thorough investigation Nifong should have done to determine whether there is any basis to go ...

Duke Rape Case: Nifong off the Case

Via K.C. Johnson comes the news that DA Mike Nifong has sent a letter to AG Roy Cooper requesting a special prosecutor. District Attorney Mike Nifong has requested that he have himself removed from prosecuting the Duke Lacrosse rape investigation, ABC News has learned. A source close to the investigation said Nifong sent a letter to North Carolina Attorney General Roy ...

Breaking! Duke Rape Accuser Changes Story Again

For the 56,864,631,657 time the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case has changed her story. This is a major problem for the DA Mike Nifong. The accuser in his case has changed her story so many times with on of the more recent being that she didn't remember if she was penetrated or not. This creates a ...