I'll be honest I haven't followed this thing closely. I wish they would open up the proceedings and let people see for themselves. That would kill most of the rumors and leaks which are sleaze tactics from both sides. The judge in this case seems to have totally botched it.
IMO, the judge has done the best he can do with a prosecutor who has been hiding evidence behind the Rape Shield Laws.
He knew LAST OCTOBER that there was another man involved AFTER the fact.
(Leaving aside the releases of court information, of course; that was inexcusable.)
The judge in this case seems to have totally botched it.
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The DA botched it by taking this loser case. The judge did a very good job.
Nothing was release that would not eventually come out in open court. The DA and his criminal accuser are blaming the judge to escape their own problems. I am waiting for the DA now to charge this criminal who lied to him after she made a complaint about Mr. Bryant.
Re Howlin's comment: He knew LAST OCTOBER that there was another man involved AFTER the fact.
Well, it is obvious that Howlin doesn't know much about rape and how women act after being raped. My friend runs a woman's shelter and gives many training sessions to police officers in North Carolina. One of her techniques is to pick an officer and have him leave the room. They she explains that many women have a reaction to rape that many men don't understand and that she plans to demonstrate as an example of NOT JUDGING THE WOMAN INCORRECTLY. She then proceeds to flirt with and place her hands on the policeman's arms and rubs them while telling him what happened and also crying. The unsuspecting policeman almost always freaks out about it and in discussion afterwards tells her that he didn't believe she was really raped.
The truth is that a large percentage of woman use sex as a type of comfort to bring back some normalcy in their minds after being raped. It is more common that most people think. In fact, last night O'Reilly had a rape counselor on that same almost the same thing.