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...Thomas Lunsford II, executive director of the North Carolina State Bar, confirmed to TIME that Nifong is expected to be served with the current complaint next week, after which Nifong's hearing before the bar must be placed on a hearing calendar within 150 days. It then must take place "between three and five months out," meaning no later than May, well within the time frame of any trial against the three players. Under the state's ethics rules, Nifong could get anything from a warning to disbarment...
...acted without reference to the ongoing case," says Lunsford of the timing of the complaint. "Our grievance committee instructed us to file a complaint at our earliest opportunity." Lunsford says Nifong, who would not comment on Friday, does not have to get a lawyer for his hearing, but that generally attorneys on misconduct charges do. All of this would be moot, of course, if Nifong were to resign from office or be forced off the case by the presiding judge. The North Carolina governor's office, which appointed him to the post, could also ask him to resign from office...
With the gut-wrenching details of heinous sex crimes making national headlines in the past few years, it's easy to see why cities and states would rush to get tougher on offenders even after they get out of prison. The rape and murder of Jessica Lunsford, 9, in March caused Florida to pass a law in May that mandates lifetime monitoring with ankle bracelets for anyone convicted of a sex crime against a minor. The 2003 abduction of North Dakota college student Dru Sjodin helped spur the creation of a national online registry of sex offenders that began rolling...
CONFESSED. JOHN COUEY, 46, convicted sex offender; to the abduction and murder of third-grader Jessica Lunsford, whose body was afterward found 150 yards from the home in Homosassa, Fla., where she lived with her father and grandparents, ending a highly publicized search; in Augusta, Ga. Arrested on a parole violation earlier in the week, Couey admitted the crime after taking a lie-detector test...
Some whites fear that soon all Confederate monuments, cemeteries and even Georgia's Stone Mountain, with its huge granite memorials to Confederate heroes, will vanish. "Our culture is being eradicated," says Charles Lunsford, spokesman for the Sons of Confederate Veterans. "When somebody declares war against your culture," he adds, "they're either going to back off or they're going to have...