The following two paragraphs of analysis set the stage:
“For one thing, most civil cases settle before trial,” said Craig Silverman, a Denver defense lawyer and former prosecutor. “In this case, both sides have a lot to lose if they have to sit on the witness stand in federal court. And what might be a lot of money for the woman might not amount to much for a multimillionaire athlete. So everybody has a motive to get it over with.”
Lawyers for the alleged victim said she was deeply concerned when the judge in the criminal case ruled that some of her sexual history could be presented to the jury at trial. And in a civil case, much more of her background would be fair game for Bryant’s attorneys.
Bear in mind that the District Attorney who filed the initial charges was aware of every detail of the (ultimately) catastrophic evidence that he hoped to suppress via the operation of the ubiquitous “rape shield laws”
Turn away, (if only for the moment) from your justified concern that a particular type of criminal charge is categorically to be exempt from normal evidentiary tests the overall objective of which are to enhance the likelihood that finders of fact will arrive at the truth.
Focus instead on the scumbag prosecutor who saw all this spread out before him, knew he was going to try a case involving a guy who 95% of the women in a similar situtation as his complainant would jump in a heartbeat (apparently, so did she…)
And rich.
And her panties are full of… (well,let’s stop before the mods get me)
WAIT A MINUTE!!
I PAID FIVE DOLLARS. FUCK THE MODERATORS
full of several (several!!) guys’ come.
Now, anyone who knows me knows that I support, indeed encourage, the behavior of the complainant, right down to the time she started lyin’ on Kobe.
But as for the DA,
Where is the outrage???