Motion for Duke lacrosse DA to step aside

What was your April like?

Durham DA Mike Nifong's spent his granting more than 50 media interviews, including some "big time" ones on national TV. He called Duke lacrosse players "hooligans," demanded DNA samples from every white player because he said the DNA results would establish who committed the rapes Nifong “knows” three white players committed against a black exotic dancer at a party that only some of the players attended.

When the DNA results came back negative, Nifong said that was no problem. The players who did it wore condoms. He also found time to deny he was trying the case in public and attended to his reelection campaign.

Mind you, that not all Nifong did durng April but let's move on.

Today, an attorney for Reade Seligmann, one of the two player's indicted in the case, asked a court to remove Nifong and his office from the case if Nifong doesn't do so himself.

The attorney's motion says Nifong has, among other things, used the case to aid his election campaign and "negatively affected [Seligmann's] rights to a fair trial and impartial jury."

William Teach at Pirate's Cove has a good summery of what happened today as well as some brief, on point commentary.

If you have time read the attorney's motion. It asserts as facts some things that have been washing over the old Durham rumor mill. Example: Some of the people at the party were not members of the lacrosse team.

The motion is free of bluster. It's easy to read. For each claim made facts, witnesses, etc are cited.

Here's a link to a very readable copy of the motion I found at The Raleigh N&O's online site. (pdf form)

I'll be interested to see what attorneys not connected with the case say about the motion.

If you read the motion, I'd love to know what you think of it.