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(CNN) -- Embattled former district attorney Mike Nifong was held in criminal contempt of court and sentenced to one day in jail Friday for his actions in the flawed Duke lacrosse team rape case.

Mike Nifong walks into the courtroom during his criminal contempt hearing in Durham, North Carolina, on Friday.

 

Nifong must report to jail September 7, Superior Court Judge W. Osmond Smith III said.

The judge said Nifong's withholding of DNA evidence from defense attorneys was an affront to the integrity of the judicial system.

The evidence potentially would have cleared the three lacrosse players of sexual assault charges months before North Carolina's attorney general dropped them in April.

The players initially were accused of raping an exotic dancer during a party last year.

The specific evidence Nifong was accused of withholding was that DNA profiles found on the alleged rape victim were from unidentified males, but did not match any of the 46 lacrosse team members.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/31/nifong.contempt/index.html

 

OK wait a minute here.. This guy witheld evidence that could have made innocent people serve time in prison, and all he gets for it is one damn day?

 

He should have gotten 30 days IMHO.

 

It would have sent a clear message to other prosecutors who withold evidence just because they want the prosecution LULZ.

 

I am all for prosecuting a suspected criminal, but if in your investigation something comes up that could clear the one your prosecuting, it should be a moral obligation to come forward and say... hey.. these guys might be innocent after all..

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Well, I completely agree, we have a prosecutor that has done considerable damage to these innocent young men and could have sent them all to prison but his punnishment seems very light to me compared to the harm his actions could have caused on top of what it really caused.
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The boys were acquitted, but they will forever be associated with "rape".

 

See what happens when you're white and prominent... everybody wants a piece of you.

To be the Man, you've got to beat the Man. - Ric Flair

 

Everybody knows I'm known for dropping science.

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Unduly lenient that's for sure. The guy clearly has friend in useful places

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