Reply #1: I suspect he has little choice. [View All]

"Specifically, the bar's three-member disciplinary panel unanimously found Nifong guilty of fraud, dishonesty, deceit or misrepresentation; of making false statements of material fact before a judge; of making false statements of material fact before bar investigators, and of lying about withholding exculpatory DNA evidence.

Nifong had been charged with seven counts of violating the rules of professional conduct that govern attorney conduct in North Carolina.

During closing arguments attorney Doug Brocker of the North Carolina State Bar said Nifong engaged in a "systematic abuse of prosecutorial power and discretion in the Duke Lacrosse case."

The whole country knows he was the victim of his own overweening ambition and lack of conscience.
"Mad dog prosecutors" seems to be the norm, rather than the exception.