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  • Murder victims' kin fight death penalty

    FREDERICK, Md. (AP) — Two Maryland couples are trying to repeal the state death penalty, despite having family members who were murdered.


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  • Unfinished business

    The disbarment of Durham District Attorney Michael Nifong should be just the first step in remedying the gross and cynical fraud of last year's "rape" case against Duke University lacrosse players.


  • Judge suspends Nifong; Duke settles

    DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — A judge said last night that he would order Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong to leave his duties immediately after he was disbarred for his misconduct in the Duke University rape case.


  • Duke prosecutor stripped of law license

    RALEIGH, N.C. — District Attorney Mike Nifong will be disbarred for his disastrous prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players falsely accused of rape, a disciplinary committee decided yesterday. Even the veteran prosecutor said the punishment was appropriate.


  • Associated Press
Mike Nifong, the district attorney accused of botching the Duke University rape case, admitted to an ethics panel yesterday that the rush-to-judgment moves were "my mistakes."

    Durham D.A. tells panel he'll quit

    RALEIGH, N.C. — A tearful Mike Nifong said yesterday he will resign as district attorney after admitting he made improper statements about three Duke University lacrosse players who were last year charged with raping a stripper.


  • No full DNA report sought

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A lab director who tested DNA in the Duke lacrosse rape investigation testified yesterday that the district attorney never asked for a final report on his work but that he and Mike Nifong did not conspire to hide evidence from the defense.


  • Duke prosecutor on trial

    RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More than a year after shocking accusations were made against Duke University's lacrosse team, prosecutor Mike Nifong was back in court yesterday — this time as the defendant.


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