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By K.C. Johnson

A few updates. Crystal Mangum?s bail, for charges of attempted murder, arson, and child endangerment, was reduced to $250,000. As one of the most astute observers of the case noted to me privately, a notable aspect of this affair is that, by filing severe charges against her, the Durham Police Department is no longer willing to afford Mangum the special treatment she so consistently received in the lacrosse case. Mangum?s patron and ?co-author,? Vincent Clark, appears to have noticed this as well: he sniffed to WRAL that ?we hope that the courts will adjudicate this case with fairness and without bias.? He also wildly suggested that Mangum had suffered from unidentified ?past injustices.? In Newsweek on-line, Susannah Meadows, who covered the case extensively, correctly notes, ?I am sorry to say that I wasn't at all surprised by the most recent events...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on February 25, 2010 (boomark / email).