Posted on 08/05/2003 10:20:49 AM PDT by Smogger
Two more reports regarding the Kobe Bryant case circulating among part of the national media were debunked Monday.
Media reports that the 19-year-old woman who Bryant allegedly assaulted received a ride home is not the case, sources said Monday. Reports that her clothing was torn are also untrue, sources also.
Sources told the Daily that the alleged victim managed to get herself home by 11:50 p.m., June 30, after ending the shift at the Lodge at Cordillera at around 11:10 p.m.
They also said that while her clothing was disheveled and showed signs that something had occurred, it wasn't torn or ripped, as some reports indicated.
"Some of the reports made it sound like something out of a bad movie," said one source. "It wasn't like that."
The reports are part of a larger set of rumors and gossip that have been circulating across the country about the case. Among them:
- That the alleged victim was in the room two hours. It was only about 20 minutes.
- When she came down, she was hysterical. She was not. Sources said she was in a stupor and a state of shock.
- A few days before the incident, the alleged victim had accused another hotel worker of sexual harassment, getting him fired. Not true, said the man who was terminated. It was not the alleged victim.
Cameras in court
Eagle County Judge Fred Gannett ruled that not only is Bryant required to appear at 4 p.m. Wednesday, he also ruled Monday that there will be cameras in the courtroom.
Gannett denied a motion by Bryant's attorneys asking Gannett to reconsider an earlier order allowing one video camera and one still camera in the courtroom while Bryant is advised of the charges against him, and also advised of his rights.
I don't have a website. Do you have one?
If you want to be famous your going to need to get one. Also a connection to a celebrity crime helps ala Cato.
Well since she supposedly bared her soul to him in on the car ride home it does sort of throw a kink into his version of events. Don't get me wrong. He'll still get to do a round of the talk show circuit. Just maybe not Larry King.
Don't mess with someone that can commit suicide two times and live to tell about it.
TWICE?? And she's STILL here?? Quick; call the National Enquirer!
If so, that would be a record.
Perhaps not. Just out of curiosity, why do you think the Vail Daily's "sources" are any more accurate than Cosby's...?
Sean Hannity was pro-Kobe but last night seemed to be reversing his course. Hinted at "things that will come out" ....
There were still plenty of doubts after the Kennedy-Smith and Tyson verdicts. Though, Tyson is better off kept in a cage.
Because the Vail Daily is the local newspaper of record. I should hope that by operating in Eagle County Day in and day out for 25 years or however long they have been in business, they would have developed better local police/court sources then Fox news or the NY Slimes. Unlike the national press this case isn't the first, last, or only time the Vail Daily will utilize local "sources" for inside information on a story
Classic local paper trick - you miss the story (or don't have a big enough cheque book) so you phone up a few of the cops you meet each week at police calls and print a story the following day knocking it down.
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