[playball0]

Many comments on this thread seem to miss a larger point.

Trials are not about finding the truth. Trials are about demonstrating, beyond a reasonable doubt, what can be proven.

The government only had the right to take away someone's freedom if the government can prove its case. I would not want it any other way.

If the victim has had recent sex with a key prosecution witness, that naturally calls in question his unbiasness (credibility). That does not mean that his testimony would be false, but a reasonable person could question its reliability.

Finding additional semen in the accuser's panties, not from the accused, seems to me to throw reasonable doubt as to who caused "the rape"

Many comments in this thread seem to imply that if the woman says it's rape then it's rape. Courts don't work that way. A woman's testimony is part of the evidence in a case. How much weight to put on that evidence depends on her credibility.

I don't know if Kobe raped this woman. I can see the government is going to have a very difficult time proving it.

[dirtboy]

Very clearly and succinctly stated.

[Dog Gone]

The only way the DA will get a conviction is if he is able to get a jury comprised entirely of women who are utterly convinced that if a black man had sex with a white woman, it had to be rape.

That's his only hope.

[Howlin]

A most excellent post!

[onyx]

#354 is excellent --- thanks for alerting xs and me.