I was there in the courtroom in Indiana for that highly-publicized trial.
Let me first say that Mike Tyson did NOT commit the crime he was convicted for. Don King, who was Tyson's promoter, hired the attorney who would defend Tyson. That attorney did not specialize in rape cases. He was a DIVORCE attorney.
Major mistake, possibly King's biggest one ever. You see, it was Mr. Divorce Attorney against a team of Indiana's finest rape specialists. In the ring, it was the equivalent of Danny Garcia v Rod Salka.
The DNA was there, all over Ms. Desiree Washington. Of course it was. She had just had consensual sex with Mike Tyson. But the prosecution took Ms. Washington's story of how Tyson savaged her when she went to his room at 2:00am for an autograph.
Photos were shown to the jury of Ms. Washington which made them cry. All the while, she sat on the stand, all buttoned up to the neck looking so prim and proper, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue. As she did, and as the jury was told the tale of the savagery which Ms. Washington said she endured, Tyson glanced at me a few times and shook his head as if to say, "I never did that to her."
Of course he didn't. The story is one of a woman scorned, asked by Tyson to leave his room after the act was over. She got back at him by ripping her blouse, messing her hair and hailing a cab to take her to the hospital. In the emergency room, Ms. Washington told a tale of being raped and savaged by Tyson. Naturally, his DNA was all over her.
No, I don't believe there was corruption in the case. There was just incompetence right out of the gate by DK in hiring a pilot to fly an F-16 who had nothing but Cessna 150 experience.
The prosecution told a story to the jury and sold it. Tyson had a reputation as a bad boy and it was easy, especially with photos and a believable story, to make the jury believe their tale.
As Tyson says in his one man show "Undisputed Truth"--"I did a lot of things I should have been arrested for, but wasn't, and was arrested for something I did not do."
This was the one thing he did NOT do.
-Randy G.
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What They Didn't Tell You About Mike Tyson's Rape Conviction (VIDEO)