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The Durham Way

By K.C. Johnson

Final thoughts on the last few weeks: Given all that we?ve seen of Durham?s attitudes toward criminal justice?reflected best in the nomination and then election of Mike Nifong, followed by the nomination and election of his deputy, Tracey Cline?the verdict in the case should come as little surprise. True, false accuser Crystal Mangum didn?t deny that she had set the fire in her house?s bathroom. And, also true, the jury saw a contemporaneous video of her confessing to setting the fire. But this is the same city in which a near-majority of voters appeared unconvinced by a videotape showing Reade Seligmann someplace else at the time Mike Nifong claimed he committed a horrific crime. In Durham, it seems, normal laws of space and time don?t apply?or at least a lot of the residents wish it could be so, when it would serve their ideological interests...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).