Crystal is not being prosecuted because:
she knows too much,
Durham is totally corrupt,
Durham’s leaders want to keep it that way,
the AG is scared to death of offending the black community of Durham.
It is no accident that they waited for a cold rainy Wednesday to make their pronouncement.
I don’t think it’a the weather. I think it’s coming on the heels of the Imus controversy, sorta under the radar, or that’s what they hoped.
I agree with you; don’t you usually charge somebody and THEN let their lawyers say they’re crazy?
I’ve certainly never heard of it being done this way; it’s backwards.
I agree. I think she should be prosecuted, but quite probably, the AG (remember—he IS a Rat, and he DOES have his sights set on higher office someday) doesn’t want to rock the boat. If CGM was brought up on charges of lying to the police, there would be a national crapstorm over it—Al Sharpton would take time out from attempting to destroy free speech in America to denounce the unfair, racist justice system in North Carolina, Je$$e would be marching in the streets of Durham proclaiming loudly that it’s 1961 (or, hell, maybe 1861) all over again...you know. Roy Cooper and the Powers That Be down here are not going to put themselves through that. They’re intimidated. I don’t think they’ve got the stomach to go after her.
Locally, at this point, everybody is in “let’s forget this ever happened” mode. The “community leaders,” the Duke University community, pretty much the entire Durham/Triangle area. They all want it to just go away. It shouldn’t go away. Not until Crystal Gail Mangum and Mike Nifong and the “community leaders” and the Gang of 88 and Al and Jesse and Nancy Grace and all the others who tried to railroad those three young men are forced to apologize for it. But it sure doesn’t seem like anybody’s got the strength left to push for that.
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You forgot to mention that she gave them all the clap!