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Unfortunately I do not. Your recollection about the substance of the comment is the same as mine. However, there is an exchange between me and the N&O's Melanie Sill on her blog where I berate her for refusing to report this. Her response was that they couldn't properly source it because the H-S attributed it only to "defense lawyers". Sill claimed that using such "anonymous sources" does not meet the N&O's journalistic standards. Yes, yes, very sad.

I don't know if the H-S keeps online archives. If you really want it you might find the date of my exchange with Sill in the N&O's blog archives. I just did a quick search and couldn't find it. It may be one of the posts that "disappeared". I think I may have given a link there or at least that would give you an approximate date for you to do your own search of the H-S archives.

I've been doing 123nc searches for combinations with her birth date. I found 4 other minor charges, but nothing significant. One interesting thing I found was a charge of communicating threats under the name Crystal Mangum Mcneill in 1998 with a plea of not guilty and a verdict of not guilty 98CR021647. There was also a simple assault charge in 1998 under Crystal Gail Mangum, but the disposition of the charge is unclear. 98CR012751 was the case number.

I could not find anything on any of the case numbers mentioned in that defense motion. They must be under soem other name or something.