Mug shot of the year
posted at 11:54 am on September 7, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Justice, if only for one day. Hopefully he’ll still have a little money left after the lacrosse players take him to the cleaners in the civil suit so that he can get that thing removed from his forehead. It’s been bugging me ever since I started following the case.
Durham’s getting sued, too. They’ve got a $5 million liability insurance policy; the Dukies are demanding $30 million. How about a nice big municipal bond issuance to cover the difference? They could put this mug shot on the certificates.
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That’s what you get for withholding exculpatory evidence.
SoulGlo on September 7, 2007 at 11:57 AM
There will be books and movies. Count on it. He will be redeemed, after all this is Durham.
bloggless on September 7, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Is $10 Million all a degree from Duke is worth? It should be worth $10 Million per Professor that signed that disgusting petition that ran in the Durham rag.
PappaMac on September 7, 2007 at 11:59 AM
And what about the coach that was run out of town? This is going to get EXPENSIVE!!!
PappaMac on September 7, 2007 at 12:03 PM
All? That’s 200,000 a year over 50 years. That’s not a bad salary coming out of college.
lorien1973 on September 7, 2007 at 12:03 PM
WHOHOOOOO! Let’s pray for a second visit to jail for this bugger too.
tickleddragon on September 7, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Deep South Culture. I forgive him.
//oy
sunny on September 7, 2007 at 12:04 PM
I like it.
Christoph on September 7, 2007 at 12:06 PM
Only one day? Too bad. The other inmates won’t have time to get his measurements for that French maid costume I’ve been imagining him wearing in there.
smellthecoffee on September 7, 2007 at 12:07 PM
Looks like he’s going downhill, sorta like Gore did in 2000—-gaining weight, growing a beard. Heh.
IrishEi on September 7, 2007 at 12:08 PM
This is JUST for Contempt of Court charge, Folks…
This is not over by a looooooong shot!
tickleddragon on September 7, 2007 at 12:08 PM
Here’s a link if you want to email the Mike Nifong mugshot to a friend. It is such a beautiful thing.
Christoph on September 7, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Not that I’m wishing it on the guy, but if he did happen to serve time, I’m sure that he would be better acquainted with the definition of rape.
windbag on September 7, 2007 at 12:11 PM
Since he was criminally charged, he can not profit from any book or movie deal.
Ha, thank god for that. He should have to serve the time of what each player would have served, consecutively had they been convicted.
TheSitRep on September 7, 2007 at 12:11 PM
so that he can get that thing removed from his forehead. It’s been bugging me ever since I started following the case.
Flashback to Austin Powers:
“Mole. Bloody mole. We aren’t supposed to talk about the bloody mole, but there’s a bloody mole winking me in the face. I want to c-u-u-t it off, ch-o-o-p it off, and make guaca-MOLE!”
crushliberalism on September 7, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Never get tired of linking to this post at the North Carolina Republican Rountable where they call Nifong “disingenuous to the end”. There you can link through to Nifong’s letter surrendering his license, where he snarks that the dog ate his license, and that the NC Bar had treated him with “fundamental unfairness”.
In the words of Her Majesty: “Boo-Freakin’-Hoo”
eeyore on September 7, 2007 at 12:20 PM
With that 3rd eye in the middle of Nifong’s forehead, you’d think he would have seen this coming.
BelchSpeak on September 7, 2007 at 12:21 PM
It would be Fricking hilarious if Duke became an all black college and all the alumni bail.
After what the faculty and the African studies dept did.
Dinushika Mohottige read this
TheSitRep on September 7, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Me too.
Esthier on September 7, 2007 at 12:26 PM
Still no justice in Durham. What about all the “pot-bangers?” What about the “Gang of 88?” What about the Raleigh News & Observer (Ruth Sheehan & Editors)? What about Crystal Magnum? Heck there were people outside with “We love Mike” signs as Nifong was going in.
I sure hope those lawyers get that $30 million dollars from Durham. The people of Durham should have to pay for the kind of people they elect to public office. Maybe next time, they will pay a little closer attention before stepping into that voting booth.
Welcome to North Carolina, America’s only “Banana Republic!”
Wuptdo on September 7, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Now time to make the professors answer for their actions. They must not get a pass on this.
Wade on September 7, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Right. The professors, the journalists, and … the “victim”. Where’s her mug shot??
warriorlawyer on September 7, 2007 at 12:33 PM
I wish Tom Wolfe hadn’t already written “I Am Charlotte Simmons” because this case has Wolfe written all over it.
thirteen28 on September 7, 2007 at 12:35 PM
Best Mugshot EVAH!
pjf626 on September 7, 2007 at 12:38 PM
*Musing* Nice target for chinese water torture?
RushBaby on September 7, 2007 at 12:39 PM
Horns grow back, don’t they?
shooter on September 7, 2007 at 12:49 PM
Now now, no frivolous lawsuits, let it go away. I would hate to see them start channeling Silky Pony….
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 12:50 PM
Yeeoowww , Now that would be poetic justice.
shooter on September 7, 2007 at 12:52 PM
That’s not really fair. Most of our elected officials can turn out to be complete assholes, No voter has a crystel ball. Durham should not be sued. How about if they lynch him, would that make things even?
Masscon on September 7, 2007 at 12:52 PM
The morons of Durham (where I once owned a home) deserve everything they get for electing corrupt incompetent government officials.
Valiant on September 7, 2007 at 12:53 PM
I’m pretty sure all Nifong will need is $.25. That way he can take a bus downtown and have a rat gnaw that thing off his face.
Sincerely,
Buck Melanoma
wink on September 7, 2007 at 12:55 PM
The only thing that could make this any sweeter could be the two so called reverends (of the Church of the Big Gold Watch, Racism and Reparations)getting sued for their part in this.
Justice does not come often against Liberal political crimes, but it is so great when it does.
Hening on September 7, 2007 at 12:59 PM
No way. It is time to add pressure to those who had these innocent young men guilty on the drunken word of the stripper. It is disgraceful to what was once a distinguished University and a travesty to the extreme actions of Nifong to get elected. The left has gone too far with this and must answer to their actions. Letting it go away is equivalent to getting a pass.
Wade on September 7, 2007 at 12:59 PM
If the voters were so stupid to elect Nifong with his obvious vendetta to get elected, then they (the voters) should pay.
This is a perfect example of why most our officials are complete a–holes, look at the voters.
Wade on September 7, 2007 at 1:06 PM
OJ Simpson has offered to help him find the real rapists.
saint kansas on September 7, 2007 at 1:07 PM
It’s been a few months. Have to get that movie again.
JiangxiDad on September 7, 2007 at 1:08 PM
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment
Wade on September 7, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Does anyone have the email addresses of the Gang of 88 handy?
saint kansas on September 7, 2007 at 1:11 PM
Anyone know what the settlement was with Duke Univ?
JetBoy on September 7, 2007 at 1:25 PM
Read this about 2 email sent to the gang of 88. This is why the University must pay.
Wade on September 7, 2007 at 1:28 PM
Only 24 hrs? I guess that means he probably won’t get to hear those heart chilling words…”HEY NIFONG, REMEMBER ME?!!”
Catseye on September 7, 2007 at 1:35 PM
There was plenty of evidence on the table that Nifong was playing the race card from the bottom of the deck when the election occurred, yet they gave him the victory anyway. When an electorate knowingly votes in someone who is so nakedly corrupt, or chooses to ignore evidence of such corruptness, then that electorate should live with the consequence of their decision.
thirteen28 on September 7, 2007 at 1:41 PM
Love this quote:
That pretty much hits the nail on the head right there….
CrazyFool on September 7, 2007 at 1:47 PM
Here you go.
lan astaslem on September 7, 2007 at 2:17 PM
The only question is I have is, why haven’t any of these prosecutors been put in jail, when it’s a white woman falsely accusing a black man. There are a ton of evidence that that has happened, starting with Kobe Bryant, and other people.
Nifong definitely belongs in jail, but as a black man i want more…I think false accusations of rape should not be tolerated for everybody.
Chudi on September 7, 2007 at 3:17 PM
Allow me to suggest some old school justice if he only has to serve 24 hours.
Up here in NJ, I’ve got more tomatoes coming off my vines than my wife and I can eat. Man, some of them are really juicy looking and huge, and they have a nice weightiness. What to do with them…
To paraphrase Pulp Fiction, I think we should be getting medieval on his face. Lock him in stocks in the public square. Allow the people of Durham, whose residents are going to have to pay higher taxes as a result of his deeds, the opportunity to bring the bounties of their harvests (or their trips to the grocer) speedily to his face.
For even more fun, line up the accuser next to him. Since we’re a modern people, I’ll allow them eye protection in the form of small swimmers’ goggles. They should be able to see everything coming their way, after all.
flutejpl on September 7, 2007 at 4:18 PM
Wade - the federal Govt has put innocent people in jail - for instance the Joseph Salvati case, and the feds knew they were innocent.
So stop, it does happen, the Duke LaCrosse players are standing in the crap line behind a long line of crap that has gone on for years. As my father says - and he’s a lawyer, the Duke case was nothing new.
You guys are tanked up because they are white college kids, and the fool Nifong was a Democrat. But what about the others? Hiding evidence happens all the time. Criminals are allowed to snitch, just like in the Border Guard case, another example. The Feds bent over backward to protect the drug dealing snitch and throw those poor guys away.
It’s shameful what has happened in this country’s justice system, it’s disgusting.
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 5:24 PM
Yes and that’s why we get a little worked up when cats like this get what is coming to them. Just wish it was more like 24 years instead of 24 hours.
conservnut on September 7, 2007 at 5:27 PM
But no one seems to be worked up about all the other injustices….it frustrates me.
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 5:34 PM
If the posters here concentrated on the other travesties of daily kangaroo court justice - like they did about this players from Duke, we might be able to get some real non-partisan changes enacted.
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 5:39 PM
What the does you father being a
used car salesmanlawyer have to do with this? Neither does your attempt to distract the attention needed to be paid to the 88 idiots from Duke who were so quick to sell students down the tubes with their concern to be PC.If you are frustrated about other problems than so be it, but this thread is about the Nifong.
You want justice and changes maybe they should start with the very professors who are
teachingindoctrinating young minds. How about the lawyers and the uninformed voters who vote idiots into office?It is not the posters here you should be after if you are so frustrated about life in the big city. Making the voters and professors responsible for their actions and answer to society will help, not worrying about the posters.
Wade on September 7, 2007 at 6:56 PM
The problem is the voters think like the posters here - they are the voters and their very approach to the problem is the problem, they only see to the tip of their partisan noses unfortunately.
Thanks for proving my point:).
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 7:13 PM
I love the swipe at my dad too, you might want to register over at Kos for your personal swmear.
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 7:14 PM
I love the swipe at my dad too, you might want to register over at Kos for your personal swmear.
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 7:14 PM
In addition gloating and wishing further ill on someone will get you no where fast.
Principles before personality if you think you can handle it.
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 7:18 PM
I think it is silly beyond belief that airheads like Paris Hilton serve about 60 days or less for what she pulled, but this ding-dong only gets 24 hours in the slammer. He put the lives and reputations of three innocent Yale students and their families through the meat grinder, and he only gets 24 hours? How about moving that up to 24 months….per student!
pilamaye on September 7, 2007 at 7:25 PM
Yale? Where did that come from?
AprilOrit on September 7, 2007 at 7:38 PM
Your Dad should hire Karl Rove to help with the injustices of the world.
Mcguyver on September 7, 2007 at 9:31 PM
Yeah, I gues that’d be OK.
jaime on September 7, 2007 at 9:48 PM
I knew this was coming the minute I first heard his suspiciously pat charges.
Just as I knew that the hanging of the British-Iranian journalist Farzad Bazoft (as a “spy”, by Hussein’s Iraq), in 1990, would inevitably lead to Saddam’s own hanging.
profitsbeard on September 7, 2007 at 10:10 PM
I like the picture. Except, for justice to be truly served, he should have a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth and he should be wearing a blindfold.
Misha I on September 7, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Ridiculous extremism, talk about channeling a jihadist….
AprilOrit on September 8, 2007 at 2:06 AM
Why not embrace the Taliban and maim him - cut off his hands, or take out his eyes or let’s see, chop him up and make him pay, disbarring and shaming him just ain’t enough…..
AprilOrit on September 8, 2007 at 2:10 AM
Woman, you sure are one uptight, judgmental, do-gooder of a bitty!
The only slack I’ll give you is that it was Friday night and you may have taken a little too many altering substances……
…..at least…… I hope that was the case.
I didn’t get any bad vibes from your targets of ridicule, since it was clear they were joking (jihadist/muslims are not supposed to smoke so they wouldn’t have a cigarette in mouth), but of course you haven’t seen the “real world” right?
Get a life already!!!
I’ve seen you’re doing pretty good in refraining yourself from name calling since ‘you know when’, but that gross insert above…..well I hope you were intoxicated while writing it.
Mcguyver on September 8, 2007 at 11:06 AM
No it is not the case, I do not do altering substances. Emotional and physical sobriety is paramount in my book.
So is tolerance, remember I am a jew….
AprilOrit on September 9, 2007 at 1:54 AM