Former Duke lacrosse accuser arrested for stabbing boyfriend

Submitted by anthony on Mon, 2011-04-04 09:14

Story here. Excerpt:

'Crystal Mangum, the woman who famously claimed she was raped by a group of Duke lacrosse players in 2006, has now been accused of stabbing her boyfriend.

The 32-year-old was arrested Sunday morning after reportedly seriously injuring her 46-year-old lover, and was charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
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Since then, Mangum has been convicted of a series of misdemeanors, including charges of child abuse and resisting arrest in December.

Those charges stemmed from a February 2010 incident involving a different boyfriend, in which she was charged with slashing the tires of his car, smashing his windshield and setting a pile of his clothes on fire in his apartment while her children were in the home. The police were also present, having already arrived on the scene.

Mangum's latest legal battle began on Sunday morning, when officers responded to reports of a stabbing and found a man with knife wounds his torso, according to the Raleigh News-Observer.'

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Some feminists claim that prior arrests, prior convictions, prior instances of lying under oath, and the like should not be allowed in a court trial involving rape. The Crystal Mangum story indicates how much time can be wasted, how much extra unnecessary expense can be incurred, and how many lives can be forever altered for the worse, if we ignore this information about the character of the accuser.

Lawyer friends -- we need you to make this type of information about the character of the accuser admissible in court, for any type of case. To keep this information from being admitted in court violates the constitutional guarantee that the accused be able to face and confront his or her accusers. Where are the lawyers on this? I smell BIG BUCKS here in the interests of defending men's rights... even if you (the lawyers) don't give a rats ass about men and their rights, you can still make the BIG BUCKS by bringing new lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of these rape laws. Let's use the Duke case as much as we can -- it's high visibility, it's outrageous, and it shows many of the perversities of the American legal system.

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Submitted by redwoodwriter on Tue, 2011-04-05 21:27