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The Lying Game

By K.C. Johnson

Over the extended holiday weekend, the defendants in the Ekstrand lawsuit filed their expected motions to dismiss. For the most part, they make similar arguments to the motions to dismiss the Cooper lawsuit?it was all Mike Nifong?s fault, Duke has no legal obligation to enforce its own anti-harassment policies or its Faculty Handbook, and the Durham Police Department did nothing wrong in the case. Here, for instance, is how Durham attorney Patricia Kerner describes the rigged April 4, 2006 lineup?in which Nifong, who had improperly been given supervisory authority over the police investigation, instructed Mark Gottlieb to violate DPD procedures and conduct a lineup confined to suspects, with no filler photos: ?On April 4, 2006, at Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong?s direction, DPD officers shared the photos from the NTO with Mangum...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on July 07, 2008 (boomark / email).