Prosecutor in Duke Case Is Stripped of Law License
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An ethics panel disbarred Michael B. Nifong, who pursued a false accusation of sexual assault against three Duke University lacrosse players.
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A district attorney who's considered the state's most powerful prosecutor resigned Friday under the weight of a scandal involving the release of dozens of pornographic, racist and political e-mails on his office computer.
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Michael Jackson's lawyers have gone to court to have a California district attorney removed from prosecuting the pop star on child molestation charges, court papers showed on Tuesday.
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All charges against a doctor accused of murdering four patients in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have been dropped, a spokesman for the state prosecutors office said on Tuesday.
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Two months after sexual assault charges against three former Duke University lacrosse players were dismissed, the prosecutor who brought the case is facing charges.
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Attorneys for three Duke lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape asked a judge Friday to hold the prosecutor in the case in criminal contempt of court.
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Mike Nifong spent nearly three decades building a reputation as an honest prosecutor. Yet he is seen today as a bane to peers, many of whom feel tarnished by his mistakes in the now-infamous Duke lacrosse rape case.
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The North Carolina State Bar on Thursday issued a formal order disbarring former district attorney Mike Nifong for his handling of the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 15 -- Durham District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, the embattled prosecutor in the Duke lacrosse case, took the stand Friday to defend himself against ethics charges and acknowledged that he had violated the legal profession's rules of conduct by making inflammatory public...
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A child abuse case against a former US bishop is dropped, hours after he was charged.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 15 -- Durham District Attorney Michael B. Nifong publicly apologized Friday for his mishandling of the Duke lacrosse case and tearfully announced on the witness stand of his ethics trial that he would resign.
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RALEIGH, N.C., June 12 -- Durham County District Attorney Michael B. Nifong, under fire by the North Carolina State Bar for his handling of the sexual assault case against three Duke University lacrosse players, mounted his defense Tuesday, contending it was his duty as a prosecutor to pursue a c...
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Did the Justice Department dismiss eight prosecutors for cause? Or was it a political purge? The Democrats in Congress want to find out
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His law license lost and reputation in tatters, Mike Nifong seemingly can fall no further. But the disgraced prosecutor who committed "intentional prosecutorial misconduct" in his pursuit of the Duke lacrosse rape case faces an uncertain &#151; and likely troubled &#151; future.
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DURHAM, N.C.  -- The prosecutor who led the now-discredited Duke lacrosse rape case reported to jail Friday to serve a 24-hour sentence for contempt of court. The city, meanwhile, was in settlement talks with the three exonerated players.
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Prosecutors have decided not to pursue a third trial in a sexual assault case that gained national attention because the judge barred the words "rape" and "victim" in court.
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Boston lawyer Evan M. Slavitt, a former federal prosecutor who was a Republican candidate for attorney general in 2002, has had his license to practice law suspended for a year for recommending a man for admission to the Massachusetts bar despite knowing that he had falsely claimed to be a lawyer licensed in California.