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A Craven Filing

By K.C. Johnson

Nifong attorney Jim Craven has filed a reply supporting his appeal of a lower-court ruling, which denied the disgraced ex-DA an opportunity to use bankruptcy protection to bow out of the civil suit. Even by the standards of Nifongesque legal theory, this was a bizarre document. It?s only three pages (is Nifong paying his legal fees by the line?). The highlights of his argument?which, again, comes in a motion to overturn a lower-court ruling: 1.) Truisms. The original decision, which Nifong lost, was ?not an open and shut proposition.? So what? 2.) Character assassination by insinuation. Of the players? attorneys: ?Their method of attack is a most tortured analysis of the line of cases we rely on, coupled with their customary righteous indignation we have become accustomed to since this case began, with adjectival surplus...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).