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So you are saying a person who was raped and is bi-polar might not try to find comfort with other sex partners? Perhaps she was trying to get the thought of the rape out of her mind by having sex with people who cared for her.

Here is the bottom line a rich athlete can do whatever he wants and then can hire the best attorneys to make his problems go away and just like Bill Clinton people will line up to kiss his ass.

Find comfort? Is rape traumatic, or not?

If it is (as most rape victims attest), the last thing they want to do is have sex so soon afterwards.

If she wants to introduce the fact that she's bi-polar, she will have to do that on her own, as it can't be brought in.

But, one of the side effects of severe manic depression is a sexual obession when in the manic phase.

That will allow the defense to get into some things she may not want to talk about.

Here is the bottom line a rich athlete can do whatever he wants and then can hire the best attorneys to make his problems go away and just like Bill Clinton people will line up to kiss his ass.

No. The bottom line is that a woman cannot engage in consensual sex, then call it rape later, and get away with it.

Here is the bottom line a rich athlete can do whatever he wants and then can hire the best attorneys to make his problems go away and just like Bill Clinton people will line up to kiss his ass.

Nice use of the Bill Clinton card, the conservative equivalent of the liberal's Nazi card, but completely irrelevant here. The "Bottom Line" as you put it is that in a criminal trial for rape under the American "innocent until proven guilty/reasonable doubt" system, if all of the physical evidence can be thrown into doubt, it boils down to a he said-she said case, and that's more than reasonable doubt, especially given other behavior of the alleged victim.

Let's recap:
1)No semen evidence from Kobe, but from others.
2)Slight physical injuries, but since she's apparently had sex with others between incident and examination, they can't be linked to Kobe
3)Odd behavior of victim after alleged incident. You can try to spin it anyway you want. "She was so traumatized by the rape she just wanted to have sex with two other guys before going to the cops" but it still seems odd.
4)Alleged victim's odd behavior before incident, separating Kobe from his bodyguards, then sneaking up to his room