http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20529618/
So, the prosecutor in this rape case has been legally proven in court to have *intentionally* lied to a judge. He's been proven in court to have taken a case against several young men who were innocent of the charges laid against them... on purpose. The accused college students could have wound up with YEARS in prison EACH.
Aren't you glad justice was served by the prosecutor having to quit his job and spend a whopping *one day* in jail? And the judge in the case discussing how his sentence really isn't going to change things... and he knows it... is sickening:
“If what I impose with regard to Mr. Nifong would make things better or different for what’s already happened, I don’t know what it would be or how I could do it,” Smith said.
Hm. You know, I *thought* (silly, naive little me) that these sentences were a form of punishment for the guilty party AND a deterrent to others considering the same crime. I'm soooo glad that this Nifong fellow is really getting the book thrown at him... it will discourage other prosecutors from pursuing their own personal vendettas in the future. Yup.
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