Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was charged with withholding evidence and making false statements in an amended complaint by the North Carolina State Bar this morning according to an Associated Press story. The new charges were added to the Bar's existing complaint charging Nifong with ethics violations in his handling of the investigation and charging of three Duke lacrosse players with the rape of an exotic dancer last year.

Death Penalty The Virginia Senate voted 28 to 11 to amend the state death penalty law to allow the sentence for accomplices to murder. A Washington Post story by Tim Craig reports that if approved the measure would reverse the state's 30-year-old "triggerman rule." In a separate bill, the Senate voted 30-10 to allow the death penalty for the murderer of a judge. Death penalty opponents say they are troubled.

Roberts & Alito: Jan Crawford Greenburg has this piece in the WashPost on President Bush's Supreme Court appointments.