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Just as soon as The Duke Rape Case is wrapped up with a ribbon of innocence, district attorney Mike Nifong will be in another case, with the North Carolina State Bar arrayed against him. In a complaint filed yesterday, the bar has charged Nifong with misconduct of all sorts, including the making of prejudicial statements which had “a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused,” as well as “conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.” You, dear reader whom I have neglected for a full day aft, can read the entire rap sheet here.

One wonders, though, if professors and radical activists who descended on Duke University in the heat of the scandal did not also engage in activity which has “a substantial likelihood of heightening public condemnation of the accused.” Things such as posting the faces of each lacrosse player on an old west-style ‘wanted’ poster. Or, say, condemning “drunken white privilege loosed among us” in a fiery and quite thoroughly racist letter. These acts may not be covered under the bar’s code, but they certainly are unbecoming of a college professor, aren’t they?