breaking news: kobe Bryant

I just heard on the news that both prosecution and defense are filing motions today to dismiss the charges against Kobe Braynt.

[CASIGKAP]

R U Serious???

[wrigley]

Is there always the option to file a civil suit?

[Rudey]

Since the original poster didn't provide any links or anything at all, here you go.



http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=6128508

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Prosecutor to Drop Rape Charge Against Kobe Bryant
Wed Sep 1, 2004 05:31 PM ET


DENVER (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the Kobe Bryant rape case will ask a judge on Wednesday to drop the rape charge against the basketball player, a source close to the case said.
The case was based on a claim by a then 19-year-old woman that the Los Angeles Lakers star raped her last year in his hotel room in a Vail-area resort. He maintained the two had consensual sex and that his only wrongdoing was adultery.

The 26-year-old's defense team was seen rushing into the courthouse on Wednesday afternoon, followed a few minutes later by the young woman's attorneys John Clune and Lin Wood.

Prosecutors were also seen entering the courthouse in Eagle, Colorado where opening statements had been slated to begin next Tuesday.

This week lawyers for both sides have been trying to select a jury.

-Rudey

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Originally posted by wrigley
Is there always the option to file a civil suit?

she already did a few weeks ago.

[DeltAlum]

The prosecution moved to dismiss the criminal charges yesterday and the judge granted same. There will be no criminal trial. It was somewhere in the middle of jury selection when it was called off.

The young woman who brought the charges declined to testify if the trial had gone on, and the prosecution, who had said they had a great case with or without her had seen its case getting weaker and weaker with rulings to allow the victim's sexual history allowed as evidence.

Bryant wrote a letter of appology to the alleged victim saying that he still felt the sex was consentual, but was sorry for any pain he caused her. The letter was not required by the court.

As a reminder, the civil trial (assuming there is one) will be in Denver before Judge Richard Match, the same jurist who conducted the Oklahoma City Bombing Trial.