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Tawana Brawley case reopened?

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Family of Tawana Brawley Wants to Revisit Infamous Rape Case
Sunday, November 18, 2007

NEW YORK — Twenty years after her allegations of a racially charged rape became a national flashpoint, Tawana Brawley's mother and stepfather want to reopen the case, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Glenda Brawley and Ralph King want to press Gov. Eliot Spitzer and state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to re-examine the November 1987 incident, which a state grand jury ultimately concluded was a hoax, the Daily News reported.

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Unbelievable. Will Sharpton get involved in this again or not? Considering how he came out of it the first time.
 
The weird thing is that it appears to be just the mother and stepfather. Brawley changed her name years ago and presumably wants to leave this in her past. What kind of parent would do this?
 
Dunstan said:
The weird thing is that it appears to be just the mother and stepfather. Brawley changed her name years ago and presumably wants to leave this in her past. What kind of parent would do this?
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I suspect the answer has a dollar sign in it.
 
BPSCG said:
I suspect the answer has a dollar sign in it.
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That may be their motive, but I think they'll come up empty. It's way too late to sue anybody for anything, and I can't imagine a TV program or book publisher offering money for them to rehash an old issue.
 
I read the grand jury findings a couple of years ago and it seemed pretty clear to me.

- Teenage girl disobeys her mother in order to see her boyfriend (or friend? I forget which) because that's what teenagers do: act now, think later.
- She eventually gets around to the thinking part and tries to avoid the consequences, like many teenagers do.
- She gets in over her head and is afraid to admit the truth. Because then she would really be in trouble.
- Al Sharpton gets involved and turns it into a complete circus.

It's no wonder she doesn't want to be associated with it. We all make a few stupid mistakes when we're young but we don't all have to face the possibility of admitting them to the entire country.
Her parents should be ashamed to embarass her further for a few bucks; I wonder if she even has a relationship with them at this point?
 
The judgment against her was...what? $80,000?

I suspect she's still paying it off. You can't bankrupt out of a judgment.
 
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mumchup said:
It's no wonder she doesn't want to be associated with it. We all make a few stupid mistakes when we're young
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Not me. :biggrin:
I made a lot of stupid mistakes when I was young.
And I even make a pretty good number now that I'm older.
Experience is an important thing; it helps you recognize a mistake when you repeat it.
 
Rob Lister said:
The judgment against her was...what? $80,000?

I suspect she's still paying it off. You can't bankrupt out of a judgment.
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Well, every time she gets a job, Steven Pagones--the prosecutor who was accused of raping Brawley and who ultimately won a civil suit against her, Maddox, Mason and Sharpton--gets a piece of her paycheck, which is why I understand that she doesn't hold a job for very long.

Michael
 
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Dunstan said:
That may be their motive, but I think they'll come up empty. It's way too late to sue anybody for anything, and I can't imagine a TV program or book publisher offering money for them to rehash an old issue.
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In another forum I was half joking about the writer's strike and "TV" needing new shows. I'm sad to say that if the strike lasts into next year it would not surprise me to see "Chasing Tawana" on some channel.
 
Oy vey! I've first read about Brawley in Hoaxes and Scams by Carl Sifakis, waayyy before the internet.

If she hadn't a reason to change her name then, she has it now.
 
Rob Lister said:
The judgment against her was...what? $80,000?

I suspect she's still paying it off. You can't bankrupt out of a judgment.
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Actually, you can, with the exception of certain types of debts. For discharge purposes, there's nothing particularly special about a judgment as opposed to a debt that hasn't been reduced to a judgment yet.

Section 523 of the Bankruptcy Code (codified at 11 USC 11523, available here, describes which types of debts are non-dischargeable.

But in this particular case, Brawley's judgment would probably be non-dischargeable under clause (a)(6) as being "for willful and malicious injury by the debtor to another entity or to the property of another entity;"
 
According to Sifakis' book, Brawley cropped her hair short. But in this photo from Wikipedia, she has still a decent hairdo. If you are going to humiliate someone, why go half-way? And if you must leave some hair left, why on the top of the head? Why not give the victim a nice mullet or something that looks like a deranged payos?

Does anyone know more about the case, beacuse her hairstyle alone is very incriminating.

 
I'll never forget her famous quote;

Nobody manipsnapes me! ~Tawana Brawley


The word is supposed to be manipulates. I guess that what happens when you are being manipsnapelated with words you're not familiar with.
 
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