| CRYSTAL MANGUM TRIAL; December 2010 | |
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| MikeZPU | Dec 8 2010, 12:45 AM Post #181 |
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Ooooh, that's a really good point! Mangum's lawyer is on record as unequivocally telling the court that Mangum did NOT want the police to enter her residence, that she did NOT want the police there ... But if Milton started the fire, why didn't Mangum want police (1) to come in and put out the fire, (2) help get her children to safety, and (3) protect both her and her kids from Milton? If Milton was the one threatening violence, wouldn't she want the police there to protect her and her children from him? Why would she be so adamant that they leave and not enter the residence? Edited by MikeZPU, Dec 8 2010, 02:05 AM.
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| Mason | Dec 8 2010, 04:11 AM Post #182 |
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. Mangum Trial SHOULD start today Wed, Dec 08, 2010 12:22 AM From Staff Reports Tags: crime and safety | durham | local | news DURHAM -- Crystal Mangum's arson trial should start today now that lawyers have chosen 12 jurors and one alternate. After four days of jury selection, the court must accept one more alternate this morning before the trial can begin. Mangum became well-known after claiming she had been raped by three Duke lacrosse players. The claims were determined to be unfounded. She is accused of setting fire to her boyfriend's clothes in a bathtub while her three children and two police officers were in the apartment. She is charged with arson, three counts of contributing to the abuse of her children, injury to personal property and resisting arrest. Read more: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/08/849865/mangum-arson-trial-should-start.html#ixzz17PpxiylU . Edited by Mason, Dec 8 2010, 04:12 AM.
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| foxglove | Dec 8 2010, 07:01 AM Post #183 |
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Does anyone think that Crystal's child, the one that called 911, will testify? |
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| chatham | Dec 8 2010, 08:18 AM Post #184 |
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no. They have the call. That is enough. |
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| sdsgo | Dec 8 2010, 08:47 AM Post #185 |
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Crystal’s final two Class 2 misdemeanor charges.
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| Mason | Dec 8 2010, 01:51 PM Post #186 |
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. The Child is the 9 yr old. I doubt they'll put a 9 yr old on the stand, but we've seen everything out of Crystal and her camp. Crystal's Dream Team now refers to the KKK in and around Durham practically every day. Isn't this the same bunch that rallied the hate for "the Carpetbaggers" and the "Carpetbagger Jihad?" We were told Durhamites were the only people that should judge Nifong or be involved in the Duke Lacrosse prosecution, but now they are strikng out at Durhamites saying how prevalent the KKK is in the area. Crystal's constant lies and fabrications have these people all over the place. Let me remind everyone of another instance of Crystal losing her mind and resorting to violence. It happened at the Platinum club. She sat down next to a couple (Crystal was working) and started making sexual comments to the woman and was continually stroking her hair. One of the couple notified the club management of how uncomfortable Crystal was making them and when a bouncer approached the table, Crystal grabbed the woman's hair and started pulling it with all her might. Crystal was dragged off and told to stay away from the couple or she would lose her job. Crystal has one of her fits and ends up feigning loss of consciousness in the bathroom where she stays there nude until approx 5:00 am when she is discovered and dragged nude across the parking lot to near the location of the vehicles of the employees. Some will also remember Crystal getting out of a car on the highway in winter and walking without a jacket - after a conflict. Her own Brother said she lost her mind when she was committed to a Mental institution in 2005. The Police found she was NOT credible when she reported her Ex-husband was trying to take her into the woods and kill her. She admitted to selling drugs at one time and then she accused some of the group she was with selling drugs of gang-raping her. Crystal never showed up to provide Police with the information they requested to pursue the case at all. I think the Prosecution should aim to show that Crystal is simply not believable and she has a long history illustrating that fact (if given the opportunity). She is an Ex-Con. She walked into one hosptial (DUMC) and told one detailed story that was splashed across the pages of the country and then the next day or so, she goes to UNC hospital and tells an entirely different story. The latter hospital is already alerted to Crystal's lies and has her marked for special treatment due to her previous abuses and lies offered to obtain specific pain medications. Those stories are captured and part of state's evidence in a prior case. . |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 8 2010, 03:39 PM Post #187 |
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KC weighs in:
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| LTC8K6 | Dec 8 2010, 03:46 PM Post #188 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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It's not astonishing at all, actually. |
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| Mason | Dec 8 2010, 04:52 PM Post #189 |
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. I found the last paragraph compelling: "I’d be hard pressed to come up with any other case in which local liberal leaders publicly, and repeatedly, sided with the perpetrator of prosecutorial misconduct. In this respect, the actions of figures such as Matherly and Pyne cast an ugly light on the sincerity of “progressives” in Durham." KC |
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| chatham | Dec 8 2010, 04:56 PM Post #190 |
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http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/12/08/851439/jury-pool-set-for-crystal-mangums.html Jury pool set for Crystal Mangum's arson trial in Durham BY JESSE JAMES DECONTO - STAFF WRITER DURHAM -- After four-and-a-half days of jury selection slowed by prospective jurors' prejudice stemming from the Duke lacrosse case, Crystal Mangum's arson trial will commence Thursday morning. After interviews with 40 potential jurors, Superior Court Judge Abe Jones finalized a panel of 12 jurors and two alternates. Jones nearly opted to proceed with one alternate but lawyers made that unnecessary when they approved the final alternate at 3:20 p.m. Prosecutor Mark McCullough and defense attorney Mani Dexter didn't have much choice, as they had both exhausted their supplies of eight peremptory challenges. But Jones already had dismissed five out of seven previous jurors interviewed Wednesday because they had admitted bias that might keep Mangum from getting a fair trial. Edited by chatham, Dec 8 2010, 05:09 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Dec 8 2010, 06:44 PM Post #191 |
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| MikeZPU | Dec 8 2010, 06:47 PM Post #192 |
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Again, I say that Matherly is a blathering idiot! What we had was a thorough investigation by two Special Prosecutors and a subsequent investigative report issued by the Attorney General! Does Blatherly have any neurons firing inside that racist brain of his? Edited by MikeZPU, Dec 8 2010, 06:48 PM.
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| Mason | Dec 8 2010, 06:51 PM Post #193 |
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. These same Papers, these same reporters reported this process started last Monday. It went from Monday to the next Wednesday - that's eight days to me. For about the fourth time, we have a headline saying the Trial starts today (tomorrow or Thursday, in this case). In a case where in this court a case like this takes 2.5 hours from start to finish - it has taken 9 days and it hasn't even started. . Edited by Mason, Dec 8 2010, 06:59 PM.
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| Quasimodo | Dec 8 2010, 06:56 PM Post #194 |
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The jurors are prejudiced . . . ? Maybe that sentence needs to be rewritten? (That word is tossed around an awful lot here;whereas no one seems willing to discuss the only actual prejudice connected to this case, which was the prejudice against northern yankee white athletes; which manifested itself in a town's blind emotional commitment to their conviction (17% who admitted as much in a poll) regardless of all the proofs of their actual innocence.) |
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| sceptical | Dec 8 2010, 07:09 PM Post #195 |
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Five days for a jury selection for an arson charge and associated misdemeanors?? If other similar cases in Durham took this long, the courts would be totally clogged up. This is not a murder or manslaughter case. It is a sometimes deranged woman starting a fire in a bathtub. As usual, KC Johnson was on target when he named his blog "Durham-in-Wonderland." Things keep getting curiouser and curiouser. |
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