Yes: Airline Southwest was sued by a black female customer and because a stewardess used the ditty. The complainant "felt" abused, as tho the comment had been personally directed. It hadn't been.
SUBCHAPTER XII. TRIAL PROCEDURE IN SUPERIOR COURT.
Article 71.
Right to Trial by Jury.
§ 15A‑1201. Right to trial by jury.
In all criminal cases the defendant has the right to be tried by a jury of 12 whose verdict must be unanimous. In the district court the judge is the finder of fact in criminal cases, but the defendant has the right to appeal for trial de novo in superior court as provided in G.S. 15A‑1431. In superior court all criminal trials in which the defendant enters a plea of not guilty must be tried before a jury. (1977, c. 711, s. 1.)
Check this out:
In the News & Observer, Crystal Mangum says "she reported the incident, she said, because many men don't believe forcing a woman to HAVE SEX is a "big deal.""
Source: http://www.newsobserver.com/122/story/429338.html
I thought that "Have Sex" was an unusual term. Looking at rape and how women describe it, "forcing a woman to have sex" kept coming up under Date and Aquaintence Rape. Rape was usually described much worse.
It makes one think that she was possibly, again, referring to her earlier (alleged) experience when she made a report that 3 men (one being her boyfriend) had gang-raped her in Creedmoor, NC.
Couple this with her PSYCH hospital stay and her history of substance abuse (3 license suspensions & DWI, WRAL) - Is she PROJECTING her earlier (alleged) experience onto these Duke boys?
Or did her previous story come to mind when she needed to get out of a jam with the law. Did she repeat a story that she had already told authorities (in Creedmoor) and her former husband, when faced with 24 holding period and the repurcussios that accompany it?