Levin: Kobe talking plea deal for non-sex crime

Harvey Levin via Good Day Live | Self

[GAGOPSWEEPTOVICTORY]

According to Harvey Levin ("Celebrity Justice") from sources connected with both sides in Eagle, Colorado:

1) Kobe accepts a plea bargain for a non-sex crime misdemeanor such as Third-Degree assault. (misdemeanor, Kobe might get probation, wouldn't have to register as sex offender).

2) Kobe settles the civil case. Pays a financial settlement. Gives letter of apology saying, "that even though Kobe Bryant belived that he was doing nothing wrong, that she felt she had been assaulted in the hotel room, and for that he was sorry."

No plea deals struck, but parties talking about it.

[Alcibiades]

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2004/magazine/08/03/scorecard0809/index.html

The woman alleges that Bryant approached her and asked for her cellphone number, which she provided. Later, Bryant asked her to get him a soft drink and bring it to him outside, which she did in the presence of another man. Bryant then cornered her and groped her private parts. She says Bryant laughed as she pushed him away, and that she retreated inside O'Neal's home and called her mother. The next day, the woman says, she received a call from a man who said he was an associate of Bryant's, apologizing for Bryant's behavior.

If true, this sounds pretty relevant.

[cherry]

no matter what, if this doens't settle right now, there will be a civil trial...

and while that will open all of HER sexual history in , varied and plentiful as it might be, it would probably, I am guessing here,be miniscule compared to HIS sexual history , which will also be open for the public and the #1 wife to see and read....

this should have never gone to court in the first place...a sheepish apology and a little money thrown her way would have been the way to go....

but no, we have had to endure this stupid circus....

[af_vet_1981]

Do you know what he did to her? Do you know that whatever it was he did to her that she now, after the fact, may consider sexual assualt was done in front of everybody at that party at Shaq's house?

I'm glad I'm not a PerpFan

According to the Florida woman and others familiar with her allegation, she was among the employees of Orlando's Planet Hollywood restaurant who worked at a private party at O'Neal's home on Thanksgiving 2002. The Lakers were in Orlando to play the Magic, and O'Neal, who owns a 26,000-square-foot house in the city's Isleworth neighborhood, hosted a team dinner.

The woman alleges that Bryant approached her and asked for her cellphone number, which she provided. Later, Bryant asked her to get him a soft drink and bring it to him outside, which she did in the presence of another man. Bryant then cornered her and groped her private parts. She says Bryant laughed as she pushed him away, and that she retreated inside O'Neal's home and called her mother. The next day, the woman says, she received a call from a man who said he was an associate of Bryant's, apologizing for Bryant's behavior.

I would like to know why Shaq won't even talk to the DA though.

It's a basketball mafia, man.

[fooman]

according to west's law your are right. But malice is hard to prove that you hear about public figures suing.

One interesting thing I ran into was the 'per se' stuff, which had listed being accused of a terrible crime one did not committ...

[BushisTheMan]

I didn't ask whether the defense was producing anyone. I asked if you knew 100% for a fact who the 2nd sexual partner was. Obivously you do not.

[CharacterCounts]

Woman who are raped go out and have sex within 8 hours of the incident?

Baloney.

Any decent defense attorney can take that fact alone and establish reasonable doubt in the jurors' minds.

[Alcibiades]

SI has learned that prosecutors plan to subpoena a 22-year-old Florida waitress who claims she was the object of unwanted sexual advances by Bryant. Prosecutors have notified Bryant's lawyers that the woman may be called as a witness at the trial, set to begin on Aug. 27 in Eagle, Colo. Her testimony might be used by the prosecution to show that aggressive sexual actions are part of Bryant's pattern of behavior. (Pamela Mackey, Bryant's lead attorney, did not respond to SI's efforts to reach her.)

This is exactly what I meant about letting the public know what is really going on.

[Howlin]

Several studies have confirmed Silverman's contention. For example, according to a nine-year study conducted by former Purdue sociologist Eugene J. Kanin, in over 40 percent of the cases reviewed, the complainants eventually admitted that no rape had occurred (Archives of Sexual Behavior, Vol. 23, No. 1, 1994).

An independent review (by Dr. Charles P. McDowell of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations) of a 1985 Air Force study published in the Forensic Science Digest found that 60 percent of the 556 rape accusations examined were false.


http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/08/01/EDGIJ7OQKS1.DTL

[Howlin]

First they have to produce the person she supposedly had sex with.

Good gosh, with every post, you show more and more how little you know about this case.

They have them; two of them.

[af_vet_1981]

Hello? She's not on the prosecution's witness list. No subpoean has been served on her.

SI has learned that prosecutors plan to subpoena a 22-year-old Florida waitress who claims she was the object of unwanted sexual advances by Bryant. Prosecutors have notified Bryant's lawyers that the woman may be called as a witness at the trial, set to begin on Aug. 27 in Eagle, Colo. Her testimony might be used by the prosecution to show that aggressive sexual actions are part of Bryant's pattern of behavior. (Pamela Mackey, Bryant's lead attorney, did not respond to SI's efforts to reach her.)

[fooman]

But malice is hard to prove that you hear about public figures suing. =>

But malice is so hard to prove that you never hear about public figures suing for libel.

[Howlin]

The evidence that she had sex after Mr. Bryant was produced by the prosecution

She lied about it in the very beginning and, since he has known this very fact since last October, Hurlburt's been lying about it ever since.

[Howlin]

It is relevant; when she pushed his hands away, he stopped.

Which, by the way, is the same thing THIS girl said.

[cherry]

that is such BS....

Bryant's star has not dimmmed...

people are cheering for him in all the venues he cares to go...

Bryant's biggest problem now is to try to explain how he single handedly destroyed the Lakers by pushing the BIG GUY down to Florida......

[JLS]

I think this is highly relevant. Mr. Bryant showed interest in a woman who showed some in him by giving him her phone number. When it became clear he was trying to advance the situation more than she wanted HE DID NOT RAPE HER.

This seems highly releveant to me FOR THE DEFENSE. I could see the defense calling this woman Mr. Bryant did not rape before I could see the prosecution calling her.

[JLS]

Actually he has lost several big endorsement contracts. This has cost him a lot of money. But then he makes alot of money just playing basketball.

[Howlin]

And that proves what? That a 20 year old guy "hitting on" a pretty girl is a sexual attack?

Is also proves that he did NOT assault her.

I'm surprised at how many people have bought into this PC crap.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Who is it since you are so EXACT and not nebulous?

I'll start calling around Eagle, Colorado and get back to you.

(What's your explanation for showing up at the rape exam with second person's motile sperm more in evidence than Kobe's? She slipped in a sperm bank?)

[af_vet_1981]

Unbiased people, not bias people like you, but unbiased people are likely to view this woman as a woman Kobe expressed interest in and DID NOT RAPE. How slow are you if you think women who were not raped by Kobe testifying helps the prosecution?

Put them all on the stand in front of the jury in Eagle, Colorado, Kobe and all the women. The jury will give him a fair trial.

[Howlin]

The prosecutor knows the names of the two guys she was with that week; wonder why HE won't ask the court to have their DNA tested?