"You're under arrest, sugar."
;)
(1) The supposed assault occurred on March 14 2006.
(2) 20 days later - April 4 - it was already obvious that Mangum's story was completely out of whack with the exsiting evidence. Nothing in her version matched the hard photographic and timestamped data they had.
(3) It was already obvious that Mangum was (a) severely impaired with as many as five different drugs in her system on that night and (b) that she had a criminal record which included making false claims.
(4) Despite the fact that there was no evidence to support Mangum's story, and despite the fact that she was an unreliable witness whom no sane prosecutor would want on the stand, the DA went ahead anyway in full knowledge that he had no case.
It is clear that the DA not only suppressed DNA evidence illegally, but that he sent an investigator in to Mangum to help her concoct a more plausible story and refresh her memory using photographs - and that the investigator lied about what occurred in his report.
Nifong should be in prison.
"You're under arrest, sugar."
;)
...along with Mangum, at least one of Nifong's investigators and probably others.
Get ready for the mother of all civil suits.
One interesting thing I took out of the report, even though it’s not really germane to Crazy Crystal and the hoax...
So apparently “Nikki” (Kim Roberts) and a white bystander exchanged racial slurs as she was leaving with Crazy Crystal. Did you notice that even though she slurred first, she then called 911 and reported people yelling racial slurs “at cars that were driving down Buchanan”? There was no evidence that anybody said anything more to her, or Mangum, than that one exchange. Sounds like filing a false report trying to get the lacrosse players in trouble.
}:-)4
The most important fact that is not in the report: On May 2, 2006, Nifong won a hotly contested Democrat primary election, by pandering to the black Democrat vote. He had no Republican opponent in the general election, so the primary was the only election.
"Nifong spent little money and appeared at few campaign functions throughout the campaign. But he was a daily presence on front pages and television through much of April as the investigation of the lacrosse team party dominated regional and national headlines. He eventually cut off media contacts but not before granting more than 50 interviews, many on live national television."