Prosecutors lay out case against Kobe Bryant Randy Wyrick Prosecutors Thursday said Kobe Bryant held his alleged victim by the throat, bent her over a chair in his hotel suite and raped her. But the NBA star's attorney questioned whether the young woman suffered any injuries from Bryant that night. Bryant appeared in Eagle County Court Thursday, where prosecutors and an Eagle County Sheriff's Office investigator laid out their case against him. They hope to convince Eagle County Court Judge Fred Gannett that it is probable a sexual assault occurred and that Bryant did it. If Gannett agrees, Bryant's case...