The day before the election, when defense attorneys asked a Durham judge to remove DA Mike Nifong from the Duke University lacrosse rape case, charging his “zeal to win votes trumped his duty to see justice,” Nifong responded (News and Observer, 5/2/06):

“Some people try cases in the media by filing motions that contain outrageous false statements in the hopes that the media will report on those statements as if they were true. If I were him, I wouldn’t want to be trying this case against me either.”

Nifong won his primary.