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I am not saying the Prosecutor himself put out leaks...but there could be other staff/assistants etc in either that office...or for that matter, in the Sheriff's office....that might say something inadvertently to so and so.....who says something to the local stringer....who PROBABLY calls Rita Cosby...lol.

I think it is inevitable that leaks can happen. And people can draw (usually erroneous) conclusions based on the flimsiest of stories. Look at the Scott Peterson case.

I am one of those 'waiting for facts'...so I tend to give a wide berth and a raised eyebrow to most 'stories' I read or hear reported about either Kobe or the alleged victim.

I am one of those 'waiting for facts'...so I tend to give a wide berth and a raised eyebrow to most 'stories' I read or hear reported about either Kobe or the alleged victim.

Good. Then we DO agree.

I see you were NOT saying you suspected the prosecutor of the story about the father---sorry for skimming. So much excitement, what with Arnold and all!

I am not saying the Prosecutor himself put out leaks...but there could be other staff/assistants etc in either that office...or for that matter, in the Sheriff's office....that might say something inadvertently to so and so.....who says something to the local stringer....who PROBABLY calls Rita Cosby...lol.

It doesn't have to always (or ever) be leaks from an official source. Remember that the police and the prosecutor got their information from private citizens, so it could have come from them, or from other peoplethey talked to. I'm sure the rumors are flying thick and fast in Eagle, Colorado, and have been for weeks. And the gag order wasn't issued until -- what? -- a week or ten days ago? So there was plenty of time for these stories to get out into the community.

Notice how the bell hop, for example, is repeatedly cited as refusing to talk to reporters, because he's been told not to? That doesn't mean he didn't tell his friends and family about it when it first happened, before there was a gag order -- and then they could talk to someone else, who talks to someone else -- and sooner or later (probably sooner) a reporter hears about it, and traces it back as close as he or she can to the original source.

I think it is inevitable that leaks can happen. And people can draw (usually erroneous) conclusions based on the flimsiest of stories. Look at the Scott Peterson case.

I am one of those 'waiting for facts'...so I tend to give a wide berth and a raised eyebrow to most 'stories' I read or hear reported about either Kobe or the alleged victim.

I think you are very wise.