Posted on 06/22/2006 2:23:47 AM PDT by abb
My guess is that the behavior of NCCU students is vastly worse than that of Duke students. A case in point is the beating to unconsciousness of a Duke student by NCCU students right after this story broke, and the threatening drive-bys Duke students suffered from NCCU students. A further example would be the now-famous remark of one NCCU student that "Two wrongs don't make a right but it makes things even" in response to the suggestion that Mangum made the whole accusation up.
Sometimes it takes a 'scuse me? to see how something reads, LOL! I need to go back to the Diet Cokes and Tequilla. Water is killing the brain cells.
abb, thanks for the ping. I haven't been around much at all due to a whole bunch of obligations taking up my time lately, but I still try to find a few minutes here and there to read a few posts. Of course I'll never get caught up, but I appreciate the pings to the articles and news.
Hope all is well.
Rush referred to a Mangum as a "ho" before anybody else did. Infortunately, he sor of apologized for it.
He shouldn't have. He was quite right. Of course, he also coined the term, "drive-by media", lol!
The Brits have a vastly greater facility with English than we do.
Yes, in Durham it doesn't even rate an investigation. Only alleged crimes against blacks are worthy of legal action. /sarc
I'm pretty sure that I've read elsewhere that the real father of the kids has been established as the father by court order. So, the kids McNeil's in jail for not supporting are probably some other kids. But that doesn't mean Nifong isn't using that as a hammer anyway. In other words, it doesn't need to be Mnagum's kids that are the subject of the failure to provide and domestic violence charges anymore than the charges against the cabbie needed to be associated with Mangum - no need in either case.
Thanks for the info!
That is true, it could be half the kids in Durham! It appears to be quite a circus over there.
Both kids have the same father and it's not McNeil. The oldest was conceived while Mangum was in the Navy and married to McNeil. The second kid has the same dad as the first kid and was conceived after the divorce and after Mangum separated from the Navy. The marriage was very brief and so was the stint in the Navy. I don't believe McNeail is on the hook for their support. I've read the real/natural father is and does pay some support.
But that doesn't mean Nifong isn't using that as a hammer anyway.
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Exactly! It the pressure Nifong wants. He can hold someone in jail for 14 months and drop the charges the day of court - or give probation. Or let a judge rule.
Look at what he did with Robbery charge. His "victim" says Kim took $2000.00. Nifong tells the Media the victim said the Players took $400.00 and he found the money in the house CONSISTENT with the AV's story. He tells the media over and over they took her money, he uses the Common Law Robbery charges to get search warrants and court approval - then the charge quietly goes away. No explanation from Nifong.
Jezebelle makes an excellent point - and I've said this from the beginning - we have to judge everything from Nifong's perspective, and his ethics. He really has no one to answer to.
Nifong is playing with fire if he's playing this extortion game with this many people. If the defense gets ahold of them and gets just one to spill his guts about being coereced into certain testimony in exchange for having charges against them dropped, they can get others to tumble and Nifong could face subbornation of perjury charges.
Wonder if we have been pulling too many records, LOL!
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You did it Now! LOL!
You're right. A circus.
I bet Father's Day gets very exciting in Durham.
Yeah, there are thousands of kids running in the streets trying to guess which one is their Daddy!
I doubt it. I think mangum would be happy to drop the case if she could withstand Nifong's duress. Look at the statements she made to UNC medical the next day. I think she and her driver and/or boyfriend attempted to queer the case the next day and thereafter in order to render it unprosecutable. The claim of being raped served its purpose - kept Mangum out of jail and the loony bin - so the next move was to stamp it out and not have it go any further.
They forgot about the election.
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