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The False Accuser Speaks

By K.C. Johnson

At the Liestoppers forum, Walt-in-Durham has a detailed rundown of Crystal Mangum?s appearance tonight at UNC. As I have noted previously, it is mindboggling that an academic institution would invite someone who the state AG had, with copious evidence, deemed a false accuser and not allow her to be questioned on the myriad contradictions in her story. It is all the more mindboggling that the only reason for this refusal to allow questions was to prevent the false accuser from saying something that could open her to a lawsuit. I should note, in addition, that Mangum?s p.r. representative had similarly informed me of the media difficulties that the false accuser had in promoting her book. As I told him at the time, it?s my sense that most media organizations will not put on the air someone whose assertions they know to be false, if only to avoid massive legal liability...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on April 22, 2009 (boomark / email).