Kobe Case may be about to get dropped.....

[BuckeyeNation27]

gee....i didnt know you were there. why didnt you speak up sooner?

[antosu]

Yesterday the accuser filed a cival suit and said she doesn't want any part of the criminal trial(too many secrets ? )

And today, the prosecutor asked for an indefinite delay in the trial. They said that the womens reluctance to testify and the info leaked by the media has hurt the case against Kobe.

I think they are too ashamed to just throw the case out. They promised to have bombshell evidence later on but never produced any. They wasted the states money. The only way I see the circumstances changing is if they can convince the girl to testify.

Just throw the garbage case out already !

[jimotis4heisman]

Maybe shes in it for the money??? NO SAY IT AINT SO

[AKAKBUCK]

Yesterday the accuser filed a cival suit and said she doesn't want any part of the criminal trial(too many secrets ? )

Hmmm... is there any Rape Sheild in a Civil Trial? Me thinks not.

Let's face the fact that she wants the criminal trial to be dropped (and blame it on the 'system') so there won't be a ding going into the civil suit. Am I calling her money hungry.. no. But that's the plan.

I tend to think that while women's groups may be P.O.'d that the Rape Sheild got shoved out of the way a little, and the incompetence of some clerks really messed up to 'scare this young woman away' and they are going to think that it will scare women form reporting rapes... I think that we're probably better off blaming mess ups for this [probably not going to trial]. My reasoning being, that no matter how bad this was for the accuser... the trial would have been ten times worse.. and I think things would have been bad both ein an aquittal or a conviction because as often happens, there was no real evidience one way or another.

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Ant said:

They all should but a high percentage of rape accusations are being exposed as false.

Don't know what he means by high percentage... but coming from someone who has had two close friends accused of rape (Both of which were later recanted by the accuser) based on 'regrets' the victim had in one case, and the other was because she got in trouble with her parents about her whereabouts (she was 21.. so we're not talking a HS girl or anything) so she made up a story so as not to upset daddy... all I can say is that there was no proof that aything other than sex had happened, and these girls testimony, and I'm telling you what... I thought both of them were going down because police natrually beleive the first side of a story they hear... that's just human nature. Anyway... I'd just thought I'd get my dig in on 'Burden of Proof.' This is in no way meant to play down the seriousness of legitmate crimes and victims, or characterize 'women as liars' but if Kobe or anyone else were to go down based on one person's testimony alone... it would have been a serious miscarriage of justice.

[osugrad21]

This girl is a prime example of why many actual rapists get off...her ass should face charges if this is all bull[censored]

[MililaniBuckeye]

Originally Posted by osugrad21

This girl is a prime example of why many actual rapists get off...her ass should face charges if this is all bull[censored]

You are 100% correct. The only problem is that many will complain that punishing "wolf-criers" will keep legitimate rape victims from coming forward. I personally don't think that would be the case, since you should only punish the rape accuser only if you can prove that it was an actual "false accusation"...big difference from simply not being able to prove the case.