CRYSTAL MANGUM EXPOSED! Arrest Records

Durham, NC (TLS). 'The Smoking Gun' website has exposed Crystal Mangum, the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape hoax, and provided the complete official documents pertaining to her prior arrests.

Now that the North Carolina Attorney-General has proclaimed the complete innocence of the three falsely accused Duke lacrosse students, The Smoking Gun has decided to introduce the public to Ms. Mangum--the woman whose sole word was enough for a Durham District Attorney to bring three innocent lives to the brink of permanent ruin.

As you will see in the documents on file at The Smoking Gun, Ms. Mangum's arrest record is significant--not unusually long but significant enough to conclude that her testimony should be considered highly questionable at the very least.

This, in addition to the fact that her own father stated that his daughter was emotionally unstable, no doubt led Attorney-General Roy Cooper and his two special prosecutors to conclude that Ms. Mangum's testimony was sorely lacking in credibility.

To be fair, Ms. Mangum's plight elicits at least some pity. It is clear that she is a deeply troubled young woman who suffers from delusional ideation.

For this reason she should not be the one to bear the bulk of the responsibility and blame for the fiasco that ensued after her charges were made against the three Duke students.

The real villains in this case are Mike Nifong, who should have known better than to base an entire case upon the word of a delusional person, and the Durham Police Department that obviously sought to bury its gross misconduct by not only covering up their botched procedures but actually perpetrating a frame-up as a cover for their misdeeds. The local and state governments share in culpability as well, due to the fact that Judges and offices of District Attorneys carry the full weight of the government entities that employ them.

The Smoking Gun always provides insider scoops into most of the intriguing cases that make the news. For this reason we feature them in our list of preferred links on The Liberty Sphere.

Click here to go to the Crystal Mangum section of The Smoking Gun. There are three full pages of official documents tracing Mangum's prior arrest records:
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0411071duke1.html