Ok, for the youngsters go to 2006- people would possibly have their doubts due to the
Duke Lacrosse team rape case. (Again - I am not saying Marissa is lying).
Yes vagabond - I am old and from New York so how could I not remember. 1987. She was from upstate New York. Not only did she claim to be raped but had racial slurs written all over her body and stated that the rapists did that to her as well. Sharpton claimed everyone from the local police to New York Governor Mario Cuomo was engaged in a cover-up.
The Aftermath (for vagabond and those who think you can't sue for libel or slander) - The Brawley case resurfaced a decade later when Steven Pagones (who was a district attorney and was actually accused of participating in the alleged abduction and rape) filed a defamation suit against Maddox, Mason and Al Sharpton; he had already won a default judgment against Tawana in 1991. By 1997, Tawana had moved to Washington and changed her name to Maryam Muhammad. She returned to New York to speak before a rally at Brooklyn's Bethany Baptist Church in support of her advisers, insisting that she had told the truth about the abduction. The court found otherwise. Her advisers were ordered to pay Pagones $345,000 while Tawana had to pay $185,000. "Tawana Brawley appears caught up in her own fiction," said New York State Supreme Court Justice S. Barrett Hickman. Unfortunately, the rest of the country had to be caught up in it, too.
referenced to help me remember all the specifics:
http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id315.htm
