[FITZ]

If she just left an orgy and was headed home and was intercepted along the way and raped --- it would be easy enough to call that rape --- but a woman who is already carrying around a bit of DNA on her who heads up to a man's hotel room to spend some time alone with him just isn't as believable when she claims it was rape. For one --- I don't think this woman is exactly naive about why men she doesn't know would invite her up to their hotel room and not naive about what it means to answer that call and go up.

You've got to admit --- this isn't the best victim-witness around.

[Sabertooth]

You've got to admit --- this isn't the best victim-witness around.

Fair enough.

You've got to admit, Kobe put himself in this position. The rape shield rules were already in place when he decided, at best, to commit adultery by way of anal sex with a woman he'd just met.

There's no reason to change the rules just because he can dunk a basketball.

[cyncooper]

--- but a woman who is already carrying around a bit of DNA on her who heads up to a man's hotel room to spend some time alone with him just isn't as believable when she claims it was rape.

Please spell out how you make this statement as if it has a factual basis.

The underwear wouldn't be it, as that's a different pair.

The vaginal swabs can't be used to buttress your claim as they haven't been tested. And besides, some think (and I don't discount it, either, though I doubt it due to the bleeding) that she had sex with the bellman AFTER the Bryant incident, so she wouldn't be carrying anybody's DNA on her when she heads to his room.