Duke Lacrosse Accuser Suing For Defamation After Media Reported She ‘Fatally’ Stabbed Her Boyfriend. She Was Convicted Of Second-Degree Murder.

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 “fatally” 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.

In her lawsuit filed last week, Mangum argues that she did not actually kill her boyfriend when she stabbed him, therefore it is defamatory to claim she “fatally” stabbed him. During her trial in 2013, Mangum’s defense argued she acted in self-defense and that her boyfriend, Reginald Daye, had been straddling her and choking her when she “poked him once in the left side with a steak knife,” 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.