By AARON BEARD, Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. - Lawyers for three Duke lacrosse players once accused of raping a stripper repeatedly asked District Attorney Mike Nifong to turn over the full results of DNA testing, a lawyer testified Thursday during Nifong’s ethics trial.

Brad Bannon, who represented former student Dave Evans, also recounted the offers he and other defense attorneys made to meet with Nifong before he sought indictments against their clients. Nifong refused, he said.

The North Carolina State Bar charged Nifong with violating rules of professional conduct in his handling of the high-profile case.

Among the charges are allegations that Nifong kept the full details of the DNA testing from the defense. If convicted by the bar’s disciplinary committee, Nifong could be stripped of his license to practice law in the state.

Dr. Brian Meehan, director of DNA Security Inc., testified on Wednesday that he and Nifong did not conspire to keep the results from defense attorneys, although he said Nifong never asked for a final and complete report on his lab’s findings.

“We did not withhold anything,” Meehan testified.

The test results found that none of the DNA on the stripper’s body matched the players she accused of raping her at a March 2006 team party.

Despite the lack of DNA evidence tying them to the case, Nifong won indictments against Evans, Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty. The three were later cleared by the state attorney general, who called them “innocent” victims of a rogue prosecutor’s “tragic rush to accuse.”

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