Interesting post from roper on the abc board:
It is common knowledge on the street that a person can avoid bloodwork, and the risk of having drugs or alcohol detected, by claiming to be a victim of a crime. If the complainant can convince the police that they have been victimized, they then gain a privacy right to their bloodwork, buying themselves 48 hours or so while the police investigate the allegation. The objective is to have "dried-out" by the time the police determine there is nothing to the complaint.
I believe that this is a more credible explanation for the AV's claim than the possibility she was interested in revenge for racial slurs, etc. According to the police report, she was mentally "out-of-it" at the time she was picked up. It subsequently was determined that she had admitted to drinking alcohol on the day of the event, and to have taken flexeril, a muscle relaxant that this not supposed to be mixed with alcohol. She also supposedly was on probation, and thus would have had a motivation to avoid the blood-test that she would have been forced to take had she been hauled into the police station.
It has interested many that there is no toxicology report from the AV's visit to the hospital. The explanation is simple... when requested to take a blood test at the hospital, she declined, as she was entitled to given her status as the possible victim of a crime.
Posted: 8/24/06 2:44 PM
Nifong declined to comment to The Herald-Sun.
But he told WRAL: "If there was a toxicology report available, it would've been included in the discovery I handed over to the defense."
The above quote originally came from the following URL, which has expired - http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-737491.html
I've always suspected she lied to get herself out of a jam at Durham Access. She didn't want to be committed. The bloodwork angle may be part of it too. I also suspect there was something cruising around her system that she didn't want anyone to know about. And I'm sure Durham Access would have run some sort of bloodwork on her.
He's a bit late to the dance, some of us on these threads surmised long ago this was in the pimp handbook we just weren't sure which chapter. ... ;)
Maybe we should send him a link, we could keep him a bit more ahead of the curve than his DBM research team.
Yep. I've been explaining this off and on for some time. Once Mangum became a rape victim, she didn't have to consent, even though she's got a probation order requiring her to consent to substance testing.