Mike Nyfong gets Disbarred

2007 Sports Stories

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Imagine yourself as a College Student. Now imagine your self in one of the most racially divided cities in America. Imagine you are normally the majority, but in this town, you're not.

You and your teammates decide to throw a typical college party. Friends come over, you have a good time, drink, and hire two exotic dansers. Maybe letting the underclassmen drink isn't a good thing, and maybe you are asking for trouble by hiring 2 strippers. It shouldn't be that serious though, maybe a suspension from your team for a couple games, and maybe you have some sort of meeting with the administration, but you shouldn't run into any major problems, right?

Despite setting up a potentially bad situation, nothing really happens. The underclassmen drink, but no one gets hurt. The Strippers show up late and drunk, but all in all, its okay. There was a bit of a verbal confrontation between a player and a stripper involving some racist remarks, but nothing that should require any sort of consequences. You didn't even lay a hand on the stripper.

Well this stripper, being drunk out of her mind, creates a story in her mind that she was raped at your party, and is checked into the Emergency room. Nurses see no damage inside of her body, and she shows no signs that she was raped outside of her word. She changes her story a couple of times, but in the end, it should be over pretty quickly.

It isn't. She continues with her story, and gets the police to investigate possible rape charges against you and your friends. Days later, you're at a party with your team when your coach gets a call. Charges are being brought against you and your friends from the party. The stripper still says she got raped.

So the coach confronts you about it, and you defend your innocence, which he believes and choses to stand behind you. The underage drinking would require some sort of action, but that wasn't a pressing concern.

The School is informed about the charges, and makes you and your teammates forfeit an early game during your season. Your coach goes up to the Administration, where he is told by the President "it's not about the truth," and subsequently fires him. Your season is canceled, and the District Attorney has brought charges against you.

You and your friends are later arrested, and in one of the most courageous acts in a long time, as you walk up to the police station to turn yourself in, you address the media, and subsequently the entire nation, proclaiming your innocence, and saying that you won't give up the battle.

You are required so submit DNA samples to the District Attorney's office to check for any evidence against you. Nothing comes up. Too bad the DA keeps this information private for a couple months.

Things go downhill for the DA from there. The other stripper comes out and says that no rape occurred, he continues to prosecute you and your friends despite the stripper no longer being sure she was raped at all, and it leads to the charges being dismissed, and your names being cleared. He loses the race for the DA's office.

Then comes the moment of truth. The DA is brought in front of the local bar association for prosecutorial misconduct to see if he should have his license as a Lawyer taken away. After serveral days of hearings, you win. He losses his license, ending his career as a lawyer. His original motivation? To win reelection.

This, my friend, is the story of the Duke Lacrosse team, coached by Mike Pressler, who were prosecuted by Durham County DA Mike Nyfong. In the end, the truth won out, and Nyfong lost his job. But one most always remember the danger that comes when you no longer seek the truth.