The official 2003 Colorado Incident Information Thread (In Defense of Kobe)

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Unfortunately this had to be posted.

You need to know the facts when dealing with these Cacs/Feminist and c00ns.

This is also for the Misinformed people who are bringing up Kobe's rape trial to condemn him.

There's a myth that Kobe's defense team leaked the name of Kobe's accuser.

This is not true. Kobe's lawyers were allowed, by the judge, to bring up Faber's name. The Court and the Eagle County Justice Center's staff accidentally leaked the name.

Judge: Don't Call Kobe Bryant Accuser "Victim"

Prosecutor dismissed a witness, without telling the defense, simply because he contradicted their evidence.

The sexual assault expert claimed jaw injury and vagina trauma are very much possible in consensual sex. Why is this so important? Prosecutor's entire case was predicated on the neck injury and vaginal trauma. Weirdly enough, this is never mentioned among news sites attacking Bryant.

Authorities Defend Handling of Kobe Case

The accuser had sex hours after her encounter with Kobe Bryant.

However, before you guys try to use the "Sexual assault victims can be very unpredictable" card, (Which is somewhat valid) before this evidence was revealed, the accuser and the prosecutor's stances differed strongly from this. To exemplify, prosecutor tries to fight this evidence by saying she had sex BEFORE the encounter, but the forensic expert was very doubtful. If she had sex before the Kobe incident, there would be some DNA found on Kobe's clothing; Nothing was found

Papers Reveal New Details In Kobe Bryant Rape Case

Big Win For Kobe Defense

Before the actual trial took place, including the civil court, the accuser bragged about the money she was going to get from Kobe. .

You know what's worse? 3 days before Kobe was charged, she was seen by more than 5 people bragging about her encounter with Kobe.

NY Daily News - We are currently unavailable in your region Docs: Kobe Accuser Discussed Award Money

Her ex-friend reveals the accuser had celebrity addiction for a long time. She tried to do the same thing to Eminem. She also wanted to testify:

Ex-Pal Reveals Kobe's Accuser Plotted To Lure Eminem Into Bed

She was seen leaving the hotel without any noticeable discomfort:

Kobe Records Released

She had a history of mental illness that was dangerous to herself and her peer:

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(This evidence would not be accepted in today's court but was registered in 2004)

The prosecutor lacked evidence. Not only evidence, they were badly losing against Kobe's defense team:

"This ruling will make it much, much tougher for prosecutors to convict Bryant of sexual assualt,'' says legal analyst Cohen. "The physical evidence against him never was that strong to begin with and now this evidence is likely to tilt the 'he said, she said' battle squarely in Bryant's favor."

Big Win For Kobe Defense

The accuser lied and changed her story multiple times.

I am okay with giving accusers the benefit of the doubt, but this was alarming. Because there was a witness who saw her without any visible discomfort (This is my assumption), she claimed she was forced to wash her face and settle down before leaving Kobe's room. What's even worse? she was given a chance to correct herself months after the initial statement; she continued the lie. She didn't admit to her mistake for a whole year.

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Finally, the settlement. People actually use this as Kobe's confession.

Kobe was strongly advised by his own defense team AND other prosecution to settle this case. Why? He could risk losing everything, and it does not help that he's a black man. If he didn't settle, it would take years for this case to conclude; his wife also had a miscarriage during this time. When you settle a case, it's a compromise with you and the defendant; you don't think the accuser wanted Kobe to say those things?

To substantiate this, the accuser asked for "unspecified amount of money, as well as public vindication.". She got both in the settlement. The accuser is the one who wanted this comment.

As a user from this thread pointed out:

Its what the lawyers, from both sides, agreed to make Kobe sign to end it; it has nothing to do with Kobe's actual feelings or the reality of the case.

This is a settlement.

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Look, by all accounts, this was a false accusation. I will never say I am 100% certain, but I am sure enough that he did not rape this woman.

It's really funny how the media changed narratives to fit their agendas. I have never seen them bring up how much the prosecution was insanely unethical to Kobe AND many of his witnesses. The prosecutor, Lin Wood, is also a horrific person.

This is a re-post of a post that was on here from around the time he won the oscar and a$$holes were bringing up the rape charges again. I saved this to my PC so whenever it came around it could be posted again. So please save this post and re-post anywhere people are trying to accuse him of being a rapist.
 
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Papers Reveal New Details In Kobe Bryant Rape CasePapers Reveal New Details In Kobe Bryant Rape Case
By Adam Liptak

  • Aug. 4, 2004
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      Were that to happen, she said, according to the transcript, ''I'm thinking the prosecution is going to sit down and re-evaluate the quality of its case and its chances of a successful prosecution.''


      But last month the judge, W. Terry Ruckriegle, the chief judge of the district court in Eagle, Colo., did allow some evidence concerning the woman's sexual conduct to be presented, though he limited it to the 72-hour period that ended with her physical examination on July 1, 2003, the day after her encounter with Mr. Bryant at a resort hotel near Vail.

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      Judge Ruckriegle said he reluctantly released the transcript only because higher courts had ordered him to.

      The trial of Mr. Bryant, a basketball superstar for the Los Angeles Lakers, is set to start Aug. 27.

      While some legal experts cautioned against drawing conclusions from partial evidence, others said that the DNA evidence described in the transcript might irretrievably damage the prosecution's case. Craig Silverman, a former Denver prosecutor, focused on the expert's conclusion that the woman had had sex with another man after her encounter with Mr. Bryant.


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      ''That is inconsistent with the way jurors could expect a true rape victim to act,'' Mr. Silverman said, ''and it is inconsistent with what she and her attorney have said.''

      Others said the new information, even if true, might not be significant.

      ''Even if the alleged victim did have sex with someone after the incident with Kobe Bryant,'' said Karen Steinhauser, a former sexual assault prosecutor in Denver, ''it tells us nothing about whether she consented to have sex with Kobe Bryant.''

      Some information remains sealed. It includes, Judge Ruckriegle wrote on Monday, the accuser's name, information concerning her sexual activities outside the 72-hour window, any use of drugs and alcohol and her mental health history. Those restrictions affected only a handful of passages in the transcript. The accuser was generally referred to as ''Miss ------------''; the second man as Mr. X.

      The only witness to testify at the hearing was Dr. Elizabeth A. Johnson, a defense expert in forensic DNA analysis. Dr. Johnson said she had detected semen from a second man on various samples. The second man's DNA was present, she said, in and on the woman, on what prosecutors called ''the purple G-string'' she wore when she met Mr. Bryant and on yellow underwear she wore to the physical examination the next day.

      Mr. Bryant has said he had consensual sex with the woman. His DNA was detected in several samples as well, though not on the yellow underwear.

      Prosecutors maintain that old, dry semen from the second man on the yellow underwear accounted for its presence on the various samples.

      Dr. Johnson said that theory was not plausible.

      ''I think is would be highly coincidental for someone in the act of putting on underwear to make three separate circular spots on their thighs,'' she testified in June.

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      ''It is highly unlikely to explain how that material got internally,'' she continued. Dr. Johnson added that if sex with the second man had preceded the encounter with Mr. Bryant, some of the second man's genetic material would have been found on Mr. Bryant and his clothing.

      In a statement issued in March, the accuser's lawyer, John Clune, called the accusation that his client had sex not long after her encounter with Mr. Bryant ''patently false.''

      According to an earlier decision in the case by a different judge, Mr. Bryant's accuser gave an account of her recent sexual history at her physical examination a year ago. ''The alleged accuser,'' Judge Frederick Gannett, of County Court in Eagle, wrote, ''disclosed that she had engaged in sexual intercourse on June 28, 2003, and that her partner has used a condom.''
 

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KOBE'S ACCUSER 'BRAGGED' Partygoer: She was happy

By DEREK ROSE
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Jul 24, 2003 | 12:00 AM





The young woman accusing Kobe Bryant of rape bragged about the alleged assault at a party last week - and gave a graphic description of the NBA star's anatomy, partygoers said. Steve Evancho told NBC News that he was surprised when the 19-year-old woman showed up at his house party on July 15 - three days before prosecutors slapped Bryant with sex assault charges. "She was bragging about the whole thing," Evancho said, adding that the woman seemed "happy. She was having fun.

" She even answered a question about the 6-foot-7 L.

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A. Lakers star's manhood, five people at the party told NBC. "She answered with a gesture and a description," said NBC correspondent Michelle Hofland. "They couldn't believe it.

" A spokeswoman for the Eagle County, Colo., district attorney declined to comment on the story yesterday. Other friends have said the woman was stunned and upset after the June 30 incident at the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera, where she worked at the front desk. The report comes as a friend of the woman said the woman felt "a certain amount of chemistry with" Bryant when she showed him around the ritzy mountain resort near Vail. After showing Bryant around the lavish lodge, she accepted his invitation to go to his room, Luke Bray told The Denver Post. "She had thoughts of declining," Bray said. "But he had been nice. She felt safe about doing that.



" Bryant raped her when she tried to leave, Bray said. Conviction promised Bray also echoed his wife, Starlene Bray, who has said the woman suffered obvious injuries. "I can't wait for this to get in front of a jury so they can see what happened," Luke Bray said. "Their jaws will hit the floor, and they will convict him.

" Bryant, married with a 6-month-old daughter, insists he had consensual sex with the woman. Meanwhile, today's Globe supermarket tabloid published a photograph of the accuser on the cover with a black bar covering her eyes. "This is the No. 1 face in America that people want to see, and so we decided to go with it," said editorial director Jim Lynch. The woman's name is not mentioned. Mainstream media outlets have refrained from identifying the accuser or showing her picture, though some of her personal information has appeared on the Internet and a syndicated radio talk-show host has aired her name.
 
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