State Bar Brings Charges Against Nifong

The ethical violations committed by Durham County D.A. Mike Nifong (the infamous Duke "rape" case) are finally being prosecuted by the local State Bar:

The North Carolina Bar Association filed ethics charges Thursday against the prosecutor in the Duke University rape case, accusing him of saying misleading and inflammatory things to the media about the lacrosse players under suspicion.

The punishment for ethics violations can range from admonishment to disbarment.
Among the four rules of professional conduct that District Attorney Mike Nifong was accused of violating was a prohibition against making comments "that have a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused."

Many people thought Nifong had hopelessly prejudiced any possible jury with his prosecution in the press of the Duke lacrosse players. Given everything that has come out since then, including the willful withholding of exculpatory DNA evidence, it looks like Nifong's days as D.A. are numbered.