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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
« Reply #60 on: Jan 16^th, 2008, 8:21pm »

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No money, no liability, no responsibility, no accountability. What a sorry state of affairs.

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
« Reply #61 on: Jan 24^th, 2008, 12:39am »

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on Jan 16^th, 2008, 8:21pm, Pocket wrote:

No money, no liability, no responsibility, no accountability. What a sorry state of affairs.

Just to keep up to date with this story . . . and it's wake, here's one of the efforts for accountability. I guess all those "various officials" who so quickly jumped on board and pronounced people "guilty" before all the facts were in, are now facing the consequences of their actions.

Ex-Lacrosse Coach Files Slander Suit Against Duke

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Posted: Jan. 23 5:02 p.m.

Raleigh Former Duke University men's lacrosse coach Mike Pressler filed a defamation lawsuit Wednesday against the university and John Burness, the school's senior vice president for public affairs.

Pressler claims Burness falsely told a Newsday reporter that the decorated lacrosse coach was fired because "he had not adequately supervised his team," which was at the center of the high-profile criminal investigation into an exotic dancer's claims that three lacrosse team players raped her.

The complaint alleges that Burness "drew defamatory contrasts between" Pressler and Duke's new lacrosse coach, John Danowski, saying the difference between the two coaches was "night and day."

"These slanderous statements were published in that Defendant Burness knowingly communicated these slanderous statements to a third person with the intent that the third person spread the slanderous statements to the general public through 'Newsday,' The Associated Press and on the Internet for all the world to see," the complaint said.

Duke issued a statement Wednesday night in which Vice President and General Counsel Pamela Bernard said, As we have said before, Mr. Pressler reached a fair and final financial settlement with Duke University in 2007. There is no merit to this lawsuit and it is yet another attempt to reopen a settled matter.

Pressler's complaint also cites a June 7, 2007, statement to The Associated Press in which Burness wrote that Pressler's termination "was essential for the team to have a change of leadership in order to move forward."

The statements, according to Wednesday's court filing, "directly and proximately caused Coach Pressler to suffer actual damages in the form of ridicule, humiliation, public contempt, loss of reputation, damage to his business, profession and means of livelihood and monetary, economic and business loss.

Pressler was forced to resign on April 5, 2006, shortly after Durham police began investigating the rape allegations. As Bernard said, he and Duke reached an undisclosed financial settlement in March 2007. Pressler claims Burness' comments about him broke that agreement.

Last week, Pressler withdrew a request for the court to cancel a confidentiality agreement between himself and the university. His attorneys decided, instead, on the suit they filed Wednesday.

He now coaches at Bryant University in Rhode Island and helped write a book last year, "It's Not About the Truth," about his experience in the lacrosse case.

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
« Reply #62 on: Dec 4^th, 2008, 11:54pm »

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Here is the result of ignoring the law and having your own agenda . . . . sad, sad.

Mr. Nifong continues to reap his reward:

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U.S. judge gives green light for suit against Nifong

Posted: Dec. 4 4:26 p.m.
Updated: Dec. 4 9:58 p.m.

Greensboro, N.C. A federal district judge has agreed with a bankruptcy judge's ruling that a civil rights lawsuit against Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong can move forward.

The former Durham County district attorney filed for bankruptcy in January, which temporarily protected him from the civil litigation brought by the three Duke University lacrosse players prosecuted on charges of rape, sexual assault and kidnapping.

Following a bankruptcy hearing in February, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William L. Stocks put the bankruptcy case on hold until the civil action was resolved.

In June, Nifong appealed Stocks' ruling.

But U.S. District Judge James Beaty, in his ruling Thursday, agreed with Stocks that if the claims against Nifong result in a judgment, the matter would then be referred to bankruptcy court for further proceedings.

Nifong won indictments against David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann after a stripper hired to perform at a March 2006 team party reported being raped. But the case unraveled in the face of the accuser's constantly changing story and a lack of evidence.

The state prosecutors who eventually took over the case dropped all charges and declared the players innocent victims of Nifong's "tragic rush to accuse." He was later disbarred for his handling of the case and spent a night in jail for lying to a judge.

Nifongs January bankruptcy filing came on the same day he and others involved in the criminal case were to submit responses to the players' federal lawsuit.

Nifong listed Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann, as well as three other members of Duke University's 2006 men's lacrosse team who filed a separate federal lawsuit as unsecured creditors, each owed $30 million.

More than 30 other lacrosse players from that team are also listed as creditors, each owed $1; the North Carolina State Bar, owed $8,397.71 for costs related to his disbarment; and nearly 70 other people involved with or associated in some way with the nearly yearlong criminal investigation.

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
« Reply #63 on: Dec 5^th, 2008, 8:25am »

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How disgusting that he has managed to avoid all lawsuits until now. If anyone deserves to get reamed, it's this guy...he ruined the lives of 3 kids as well as the Coach's life, etc. all in the name of making himself look better for reelection.

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
« Reply #64 on: Feb 20^th, 2010, 2:48pm »

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And here we are, FULL CIRCLE on this story, after all this time.

Student's lives changed forever . . . .

A Prosecuter, hungry for elected office goes way over the edge in trying to get elected, and has the whole thing BLOW UP in his face . . . a life ruined . . changed forever.

. . . and now we come to the INSTISGATOR of it all . . . the worthless, lying piece of crap that started it all .

I think this is what they call KARMA.

I offer for your reading pleasure:

AP Wire Reports, February 18, 2010

DUKE LACROSSE ACCUSER CHARGED

Durham, N.C.

The woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape nearly four years ago has been charged with attempted murder, arson and other counts after a fight with her boyfriend, police said.

Crystal Mangum, 31, was arrested late Wednesday on charges including assualting her boyfriend. Police said Mangum also set her apartment on fire while her three children and two Durham police officers were in the home.

Durham County Jail records indicate she was also charged with identity theft, communicating threats, damage to property, resisting an officer and misdemeanor child abuse. A Judge ordered that she remain in jail on a $1 million bond. Her three children were placed with relatives.

Police said they found Mangum and Milton Walker fighting when they arrived at the home just before midnight. Mangum then ran into the bathroom and set some clothes on fire. Mangum resisted arrest, and once in custody, gave the name and birth date of another individual, a "Marella Mangum".

Her record includes multiple driving infractions and a 2003 conviction for assualt on a government official. She served 60 days in jail and two years of probation on the assualt charge.

It was in 2006 that Mangum told police that she was attacked at a Duke lacrosse team party where she was hired to perform as a stripper. The state attorney general's office later concluded there was no credible evidence that an attack ever occurred.

The state's investigation found there was no DNA, witness accounts or other evidence that confirmed Mangum's story.

Former Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred for more than two dozen violations of professional conduct rules in his handling of the case. He spent one night in jail for lying to a judge. He also filed for bankruptcy.

Mangum never faced any charges in the case.

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
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UNDER THE HEADING OF "CONTINUING KARMA"

I have decided that I will follow and post this continuing saga until the conclusion of what goes around, comes around.

Here's an update:

Durham, N.C. A Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University athletes of rape four years ago will be in court Monday on a separate case in which she faces multiple charges, including attempted first-degree murder.

Crystal Mangum will be in court at 2:30 p.m. Monday to tell the judge that she doesn't want to be on house arrest at her friend's house anymore. She will also try to regain custody of her three children, ages 10, 9 and 3.

Mangum was arrested in February and charged with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.

Police said she assaulted her boyfriend, Milton Walker, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub and threatened to stab him.

"I am being unfairly treated due to preconceived notions that people had about me concerning another case," Mangum said in a news conference last month on the porch of a friend's house, where she is staying while under house arrest while awaiting trial.

The Durham County District Attorney's Office declined to comment on Mangum's allegations because of the pending case, and a spokeswoman said the Durham Police Department had no comment.

Mangum said she had gone to the hospital early in the morning on the day she was arrested to have fluid drained from her spine to relieve migraine pain she was suffering.

"I was barely able to walk because I had a spinal tap done," she said.

She said she got into an argument with Walker and asked him to leave. She said he then hit her in the face, prompting one of her children to call 911.

"I am, if anything, the victim of domestic violence," she said.

She said she doesn't know who set the fire in bathtub, but it wasn't her. She acknowledged that she gave the police a fake name when they arrived at the house in response to the 911 call, noting that she feared their response if they knew she was the accuser in the Duke lacrosse case.

While a student at North Carolina Central University in 2006, Mangum worked as an exotic dancer and performed at a party for Duke lacrosse team members. She claimed three white players trapped her inside a bathroom and raped and sexually assaulted her.

The three players were indicted on rape and other charges on the basis of her allegations, but they were eventually exonerated after North Carolina's attorney general found no credible evidence to support the charges.

During the February incident, Mangum said, she and Walker were both in handcuffs initially.

"It wasn't until the other three police cars got there and said that I was Crystal Mangum, that's when they took the handcuffs off of my boyfriend and they put me in the police car and told me I was going to jail," she said.

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
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oh good grief... this woman needs some serious help

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Re: Attorneys: No DNA matches in Duke lacrosse sca
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Hello Folks, It's been a long time since I have been around on these Forums.......the place is and remains deserted........it was a lot of fun while it lasted, we had a great little community here for a number of years. Now, just as the new Interstate highways bypassed the local roads, leaving whole communities margined and later abandoned......new strides in social media have left Community Boards like ours and others........as antique relics of the past. We tried for a while, but when the developers and tech staff cut us adrift.......we were doomed. So here we sit, lot's of pages of text just sitting here until the Company Server needs more space and then that too will be gone.

BUT, just in case.......I wanted to complete a Thread.
Here is the final chapter on a sordid story of deception. KARMA is now complete.

November 22, 2013:
DURHAM, N.C. The woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape was convicted of second-degree murder Friday in the stabbing death of her boyfriend.
The jury deliberated for about six hours over two days before reaching its verdict in the trial of 34-year-old Crystal Mangum, who was sentenced to between 14 years and 18 years in prison.
Killed was 46-year-old Reginald Daye, who was stabbed on April 3, 2011. He died of complications 10 days later.
Mangum claimed the stabbing was a case of self-defense, saying Daye was beating her in a jealous rage when she grabbed a knife and "poked him in the side."
Assistant District Attorney Charlene Franks told the jurors during closing arguments that the evidence did not back up Mangum's story.
In 2006, Mangum falsely claimed Duke lacrosse players gang-raped her at a team party where she was hired as a stripper. The case caught the nation's attention, as the coach was forced to resign and the university canceled the remainder of the season.
The three players arrested were eventually declared innocent by North Carolina's attorney general after Mangum's story crumbled and her mental stability was questioned. The Durham prosecutor, Mike Nifong, who championed Mangum's case, was later disbarred.

(should you happen to stop in to visit) I wish all my old friends here much success in all that you do. It has been a pleasure to have known each and every one of you.

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