Mike Nifong, Victim
At Duke,
disgraced prosecutor Mike Nifong defends himself by saying that he is being made a scapegoat for the prior misdeeds of other prosecutors. In one of the more unintentionally funny statements he makes, he says that he went ahead with the prosecutions of the lacrosse players because the alleged victim identified two with "a certainty of 100 percent" and the third, Reade Seligmann, with "a certainty of 90 percent."
This despite the fact that she claimed Seligmann had a mustache, though he'd never grown one in his life.
Not to mention that Nifong didn't bother to show the alleged victim pictures of anyone who wasn't on the lacrosse team, thus fundamentally compromising the identification process....