jenny, what in the world are you talking about? I don't excuse her one little bit. I'm afraid you're misunderstanding "reason" as "excuse." Let me illustrate it this way: if a man gets hit by a bus because the busdriver was drunk, and the mans ends up in a wheelchair for the rest of his life, the "reason", not "excuse", for him being in a wheelchair is because he got hit by a bus, right? We have a situation here in which there is plenty of blame to spread around, but the fact remains that Mangum could stand on a street corner with every media camera trained on her for 6 months crying rape, and if a responsible, honest DA did not think there was any case to prosecute, he would let her stand there screeching until the cows came home but there would be no prosecution of those boys, period. Her power stops with her mouth. Liefong's power does not stop. He had the authority to nip this in the bud. Instead, he chose to use his powers and authority to run with it for his own political purposes. Mangum didn't walk into that grand jury and present a case. Liefong did.
Oops, make that "the man was drunk", not the busdriver.