Ranting to /dev/null

Prosecutor goes to jail

Mike Nifong has been sentenced to a single day in jail for prosecutorial misconduct related to his handling of the Duke lacrosse rape case.

This isn't as nominal as it sounds. The charge only carries a potential of 30 days and a $500 fine, but any time any ethics violation ends up in jail time, someone screwed up majorly, and the fact that it's a prosecutor doing the time is absolutely huge. This is just not done.

Which, I think, is what the judge is trying to say here. You can't pull a stunt like Nifong did and hope to get away with it.