Most people didn't really pay attention to the details of the case and its a shame because the transcripts of the conversations between Kobe and the police were
this wasn't a grab a drunk bytch and bend her over a chair and throw her in the bushes kind of thing. The accuser herself felt uneasy about the whole situation but it was only after she talked to her mom and friends that she started considering it a sexual assault. What basically happened is that she had a consensual encounter with him but at some point (either because of his strange demands or because she was a tease) she lost interest in going any further. He was not willing to stop what they had already started so it continued, but she was not tied up or at gunpoint or anything. If he wasn't famous he never would have faced charges for something like this but he was still an idiot to be in that situation in the first place.