THE DUKE CASE, AGAIN – AT 7:40 P.M. ET:  For those outraged by political correctness and party-line thinking in universities, the Duke lacrosse case is the gift that keeps on giving.    Consider:

DURHAM (WTVD) -- Authorities say former Duke Lacrosse accuser Crystal Mangum was arrested overnight Sunday for stabbing her boyfriend in the chest.

Durham police say Crystal Mangum, 32, was arrested Sunday morning several hours after stabbing and seriously injuring her boyfriend. Investigators say police were called to a stabbing at a home in the 3000 block of Century Oaks Drive around 3 am, Sunday.

When police arrived authorities say they found a 46-year-old male who had been stabbed in the torso.
The man suffered serious injuries and was taken to Duke University Hospital for treatment.

Police say they later arrested Mangum at a nearby apartment, in connection with the stabbing.

Mangum is charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury. She is being held at the Durham County Jail on no bond.

Investigators say Mangum is the victim's girlfriend, and believe the stabbing occurred during an argument.
The Durham Police Department told ABC11 on Sunday, that it has no further comment on the case.

Mangum made national headlines in 2006 when she accused several Duke Lacrosse players of rape. The players were later exonerated and all charges against them dropped.

Last year, Mangum was arrested and charged with attempted murder, arson, and child abuse after a domestic dispute with her boyfriend.

In December, the jury found Mangum guilty of child abuse, but they couldn't agree on a first degree felony arson charge, which could have landed Mangum in jail for seven years.

COMMENT:  You'll recall that the Durham district attorney was disbarred as a result of his behavior in the lacrosse case, pursuing an obviously false series of charges, apparently to curry favor with the African-American community.  He is legal toast.

Not legal toast is Duke University.  Eighty of its "prestigious" faculty signed a statement calling, in effect, for a legal lynching of the three charged lacrosse players.  They have never apologized, and several of the 80 have gone on to even higher professorships at other colleges. 

Duke had suspended the three players when they were charged, but did invite them back when they were exonerated.  I don't believe any of them took Duke up on the offer.  The invitation did result in the head of Duke's women's studies department resigning from all her faculty committees in protest.  Apparently, treating an innocent boy like an innocent boy was beyond her understanding.

The accuser, who has now progressed to more vigorous forms of low lifery, was never a credible individual.  Yet, because of issues of race and gender, she was automatically believed. 

Incidents like the Duke lacrosse case set back legitimate civil-rights and gender equality causes by creating suspicion of any and all charges.  Some have figured this out.  Many colleges have not.

April 3, 2011