I worry about you. You seem troubled. Please don't do anything rash.
Your Loving James
Posted on 10/30/2012 6:26:50 PM PDT by abb
10.30.12 - 08:41 pm By Ray Gronberg
gronberg@heraldsun.com; 919-419-6648
DURHAM – A new court filing purporting to be from Crystal Mangum says she can supply evidence in a Duke lacrosse lawsuit that she was paid, up front, to set up Duke University’s 2005-06 men’s lacrosse team.
The filing surfaced on Tuesday, a day after federal court clerks in Greensboro received it from the U.S. Postal Service.
It was styled as a motion by Mangum, acting as her own lawyer, asking that she be allowed to intervene in the civil-rights lawsuit that exonerated lacrosse players David Evans, Colin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann are pursuing against the city. It was impossible Tuesday to verify whether Mangum had indeed filed the motion.
The motion’s “statement of facts” claimed that Mangum had been a slave to a “ring of sexually perverted politicians” and was paid $50,000 by former District Attorney Mike Nifong to attend the lacrosse team’s now-infamous 2006 party and “fake a rape.”
“The rape never happened, this was a plot for Nifong to make a big arrest before he was re-elected,” the motion said.
It included several other, seemingly random statements claiming that Mangum was the victim of a CIA behavioral engineering program, that she’s now being framed “by the illuminati and New World Order” for murder and that she loves and plans to marry James Eagan Holmes, who is accused in Colorado movie theater mass slayings.
A reaction directly from Nifong was unavailable, but his lawyer, James Craven, through a secretary called the filing “the most remarkable legal document [he’d] ever seen.”
Craven also relayed word that he’d mailed a copy of the filing to Nifong on Tuesday, as the former prosecutor “may not even have seen it yet.”
Mangum is acting as her own attorney as she tries to fend off a murder charge in the stabbing death of Reginald Daye, 46. She recently sacked as her counsel Durham lawyer Woody Vann, who nonetheless has agreed to serve as an in-court adviser to her when the case comes to trial.
Vann, in a voicemail message, said he hadn’t heard anything about a federal court filing by his former client until The Herald-Sun called him Tuesday to inquire about it.
There was reason to question the authenticity of the filing.
Mangum’s signature on the first page of the motion had an unusual shadow behind it, perhaps a document-scanning artifact, that inspired questions in some quarters.
The envelope that federal court clerks received the filing in was postmarked in Philadelphia and gave as its return address the address of the county jail in “Durhum.”
The Philadelphia postmark and the signature were both dated Oct. 27. Mangum has been in the Durham County Jail since being arrested in connection with Daye’s April 2011 death.
It appeared few involved in the case were taking seriously the filing’s claims, be they about a $50,000 payoff or other matters.
One of Seligmann’s attorneys, Richard Emery, said it suggests Mangum is “as delusional now as she has been from the outset of this case.”
Another supporter of the former players, Brooklyn College history professor K.C. Johnson, in a blog posting called the $50,000 claim an “absurd assertion.” He also noted the filing’s claims would put Mangum at cross-purposes with allies who’ve publicly supported both her and Nifong.
Mangum’s mental health has long been a question. Criminal-defense lawyers for the lacrosse players and State Attorney General Roy Cooper in 2007 strongly hinted that her medical history didn’t help her credibility.
She received a psychiatric evaluation in connection with her current charges. But after reviewing its findings, Superior Court Judge Jim Hardin in December ruled she was competent to stand trial.
http://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/102912-mangum.pdf
an anonymous motion?
Can you do that?
Look at who signed it.
Ginning up an insanity defense for her approaching murder trial.
it would be too cool if this was true...
but I suspect she is still lying
She’s a liar.
Period.
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Mangum’s signature on the first page of the motion had an unusual shadow behind it, perhaps a document-scanning artifact, that inspired questions in some quarters.
There's no question that she lied. The issue is what was the lie and what was the truth.
I worry about you. You seem troubled. Please don't do anything rash.
Your Loving James
Agreed. So why did Nifong ever believe her claims?
Even being a wordpress critter myself, on a court filing I’d prefer to see something more substantial than a wordpress document.
Also, I tend to be a little leery of the Illuminati.
Fnord.
The document was pulled from the PACER website of the US District Court, Middle District of North Carolina. I copied it myself.
I live in Raleigh, NC. My girlfriend/significant other of the past three years is third in command of a security company, co-owned by a man who also owns a detective agency (dude’s awesome). It was HIS agency that broke this for this defense; that found out without a shadow of a doubt that this wench was lying through her teeth.
It was some fantastic detective work, FRiends, and I’ll leave it at that.
It fit his narrative.
bingo...
Cheers!
Yeah, having looked a bit closer I’ll take your word for it. Amazing thing; even allowing for Mangum’s whackiness it fits in with the bigger picture.
Society is truly infested.
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