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f u minka

11/14/2012 7:57:02 PM

i hear shits been going down all day at the court house

12/3/2012 4:39:28 PM

http://www.wral.com/raleigh-dwi-attorney-to-be-sentenced-monday/11837001/

ouch

12/3/2012 9:57:41 PM

http://www.wral.com/disbarred-raleigh-attorney-sentenced-to-prison-for-altering-dwi-convictions/11840915/

12/4/2012 1:15:36 PM

I hope he's been stretching.

12/4/2012 1:17:29 PM

http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/12/04/2524122/former-raleigh-lawyer-sentenced.html

12/4/2012 1:20:12 PM

Quote :

"30 YEAR CAREER"

12/4/2012 1:30:24 PM

Ruth let me off on a speeding ticket. Let that bitch back on the throne.

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12/4/2012 1:36:06 PM

also sucks for James, he won't even have any clients in prison to protect him.

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12/4/2012 1:36:55 PM

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"As all the lawyers in this case, the real victims beneficiaries of the crimes committed by Mr. Crouch are the citizens of North Carolina"

12/4/2012 1:39:59 PM

the victims are anyone who used different attorney

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12/4/2012 1:40:36 PM

sooo glad they gave him and active sentence! hes made getting work done at the courthouse 50 billion times harder as well as he was just a jerk who needed a wake up call!

12/4/2012 1:43:06 PM

he got off kinda light IMO

those who work to uphold the laws should be held to a higher standard; even though that would open up all types of shit

12/4/2012 1:50:53 PM

^uh no, everyone should be held to the same standard because everything is situational and different. Besides working in the justice system doesn't automatically make you a more moral person, you have the same motives and objectives as everyone else in the world and you have the same options of how to get where you want.

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12/4/2012 2:00:37 PM

Mike Nifong got 1 day in Jail for prosecuting 3 men who he KNEW were innocent of rape and lying to a judge.

12/4/2012 2:10:50 PM

see what i mean

12/4/2012 2:27:15 PM

^^I know this may be splitting hairs, but Nifong did not get 1 day in jail for that. He got a day in jail for contempt of court, because he was ordered by the court to disclose all of the information from the DNA tests he had conducted, and he failed to do so. The short version of the story is that he had a private firm do the DNA testing work, and when some of the results weren't helpful to the prosecution, he directed them to make a report leaving that information out.

The reason I mention all of that is because his day in jail was only based on the failure to do as the court asked and provide all the DNA testing info.

He was disbarred and removed for making inappropriate extrajudicial statements that had a likelihood of materially prejudicing the public, lying to the court, violated open discovery laws and constitutional protections, etc. The system really didn't give two shits that he prosecuted innocent people. The rules for prosecutors only require they have probably cause to charge. Beyond that, Nifong was free and clear.

(I actually just wrote a 50 page law review article on prosecutorial misconduct for publication, examining Mike Nifong's case and Tracey Cline's case)

12/4/2012 8:46:14 PM

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"also sucks for James, he won't even have any clients in prison to protect him."

haha

12/4/2012 9:33:12 PM

Wasn't he a TKE?

12/4/2012 9:45:53 PM

Today, we are all James Crouch.

Crooked judge got off scot-free.

12/4/2012 10:08:00 PM

^^^ fair enough, but the judge even pussed out on that. He could have given him up to 30 days for contempt of court. In the context of everything else that would have seemed fair.

What I take from this is that private defense attorneys are expected to conduct themselves in a more honest and ethical manner than elected prosecutors that use cases to win re-election.

12/4/2012 10:54:47 PM

BUMP

saw James Crouch out and about on the town last night.

LET FREEDOM RING!!!!!!!

3/25/2015 11:19:04 AM

Since Crouch didn't get off scot-free, was that proof that he really was the best defense attorney in the area?

[Edited on March 25, 2015 at 11:46 AM. Reason : left out a word]

3/25/2015 11:45:56 AM

he wasn't his own attorney.

also, he seems to have dropped the bow tie.

they may not have sent the right message in prison

3/25/2015 5:16:49 PM

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"he wasn't his own attorney."

That was my point

3/26/2015 10:55:32 AM

I wonder how it would have gone if they had not accidentally given that incriminating paperwork to the prosecution.

3/26/2015 4:10:15 PM

I saw him recently and felt really badly for the guy. He looked both somber and frail, which is a far contrast from the beacon of confidence he once was.

He's dropped a lot of weight, which I can only assume is from the stress, and walks with a slow, lost gait.

I know a lot of people he's helped (many of whom are/were on this site), so it's really sad to see it come to this.

7/30/2015 10:25:40 AM