{"id":703478,"date":"2021-08-31T14:21:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703478"},"modified":"2021-08-31T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:21:43","slug":"duke-lacrosse-accuser-suing-for-defamation-after-media-reported-she-fatally-stabbed-her-boyfriend-she-was-convicted-of-second-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/duke-lacrosse-accuser-suing-for-defamation-after-media-reported-she-fatally-stabbed-her-boyfriend-she-was-convicted-of-second-degree-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Lacrosse Accuser Suing For Defamation After Media Reported She \u2018Fatally\u2019 Stabbed Her Boyfriend. She Was Convicted Of Second-Degree Murder."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">40<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fduke-lacrosse-accuser-suing-for-defamation-after-media-reported-she-fatally-stabbed-her-boyfriend-she-was-convicted-of-second-degree-murder%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=703478&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-111522827.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Crystal Mangum, who in 2006 falsely accused multiple members of the Duke Lacrosse team of rape, is now filing a defamation lawsuit against a media outlet for reporting that she \u201cfatally\u201d stabbed her boyfriend in 2011. Mangum was convicted of second-degree murder in connection to the stabbing and sentenced to 14-18 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.nced.189467\/gov.uscourts.nced.189467.1.0.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> filed last week, Mangum argues that she did not actually kill her boyfriend when she stabbed him, therefore it is defamatory to claim she \u201cfatally\u201d stabbed him. During her trial in 2013, Mangum\u2019s defense argued she acted in self-defense and that her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, had been straddling her and choking her when she \u201cpoked him once in the left side with a steak knife,\u201d according to her defamation filing. The prosecution argued at trial that forensic evidence showed Daye was trying to get away from Mangum when she stabbed him.<\/p>\n<p>Mangum and her pro se advocate Sidney Harr now argue that Mangum wasn\u2019t responsible for her boyfriend\u2019s death and that her defense attorneys should have argued that at her original trial.<\/p>\n<p>Harr in 2019 solicited Dr. Cyril Wecht to review the files in Mangum\u2019s case. Wecht\u2019s report claimed that Daye did not die of injuries due to Mangum\u2019s stabbing 10 days before his death, but due to hospital error. The Wecht report claimed that Daye had surgery following the stabbing but went through \u201calcoholic withdrawal\u201d three days after his surgery and was sent to Duke University\u2019s Surgical Intensive Care Unit. The report claimed that the SICU staff \u201cerrantly placed an intubation tube in DAYE\u2019s esophagus instead of trachea which led to his brain-death and comatose state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even though the Wecht report wasn\u2019t part of the trial and conviction, Harr and Mangum are now using it to claim WRAL-5 erroneously reported that she had caused her boyfriend\u2019s death. Harr sent WRAL-5 a letter on July 9, 2020, requesting they update two articles from 2013 and 2014 about Mangum\u2019s second-degree murder conviction. Harr pointed to the Wecht report he solicited to argue the articles were false. One article, published November 22, 2013, was titled \u201cMangum found guilty in boyfriend\u2019s stabbing death.\u201d The other article, published December 30, 2014, was titled \u201cMangum appeals murder conviction in boyfriend\u2019s stabbing death.\u201d Harr and Mangum objected to the words \u201cstabbing death,\u201d since it didn\u2019t place the blame on the hospital, which Harr and Mangum claim is actually responsible for Daye\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to WRAL-5, Harr reached out to Oxygen Media to request they change an October 7, 2018 article on its \u201cMurders A-Z\u201d site titled \u201cFormer Exotic Dance Who Accused Duke Lacrosse Players of Sexual Assault Fatally Stabs Boyfriend.\u201d Harr and Mangum objected to the word \u201cfatally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither WRAL-5 nor Oxygen responded to Harr\u2019s requests, so they tried again to no avail. Now they\u2019ve filed a defamation lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Mangum\u2019s lawsuit also claims she did not falsely accuse members of the Duke Lacrosse team of rape, even though extensive evidence \u2013 including a DNA report \u2013 showed the crime had not been committed. Mangum now claims she didn\u2019t receive media support in 2006 when she made the accusations, unlike women now who make such allegations as part of the #MeToo movement.<\/p>\n<p>This is demonstrably false, as media outlets and Duke University officials accepted her allegations as fact from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Harr has repeatedly defended Mike Nifong, the prosecutor who pursued the Duke Lacrosse members even when evidence pointed to their innocence. Nifong was disbarred for his actions in the case. Mangum was never charged with filing a false police report.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crystal Mangum, who in 2006 falsely accused multiple members of the Duke Lacrosse team of rape, is now filing a defamation lawsuit against a media outlet for reporting that she &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}