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Nifong files for bankruptcy
Mike Nifong, the fallen prosecutor who lost his job and his career over his zealous prosecution of the Duke lacrosse case, filed for bankruptcy protection today in federal court, according to a clerk in the Greensboro bankruptcy court office.
Nifong, who was disbarred in the summer and ousted as the Durham district attorney, filed on the same day that he is to respond to a civil lawsuit filed against him by the three exonerated lacrosse players he pursued criminally for the better part of 2006.
Dave Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, the three players who were exonerated and declared innocent of all charges, filed their civil suit in federal court in October, alleging that Nifong, the city of Durham, the DNA laboratory hired by the disbarred former prosecutor and numerous police officials conspired to falsely charge the former Duke students with rape.
The suit contends that the defendants maliciously conspired to charge the players with rape even though they knew that allegations were "a total fabrication by a mentally troubled, drug-prone exotic dancer whose claims, time and again, were contradicted by physical evidence, documentary evidence, other witnesses, and even the accuser herself."
