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Mangum Takes on the Special Prosecutors

By K.C. Johnson

While she praised the unethical efforts of Mike Nifong, Crystal Mangum had nothing but contempt for the special prosecutors who took over the case after Nifong recused himself. She especially seemed not to like Assistant Attorney General Jim Coman. In her first meeting with the new prosecution team, she recalled, Both Mary Winstead and Jim Coman struck me as professional people, but I was a bit nervous. I thought that they were representing me and I did not expect them to be hostile. [emphasis added] Mangum appears unaware that?unlike Nifong, who repeatedly referred to Mangum as ?my victim??prosecutors do not ?represent? accusers. They represent the people. The second meeting with the special prosecutors went worse?because state law enforcement officials, unlike Nifong, had the temerity to question Mangum?s myriad, often contradictory, versions of events: There were four white males and one white female...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on October 25, 2008 (boomark / email).