re: Kobe Bryant memorial mural defaced with word Rapist

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quote: The case was ultimately dropped by prosecutors in Sept. 2004 after the accuser decided she would not testify. A medical examination of the victim showed she had sex with someone else in the 15 hours after the alleged rape and before the exam — a claim later denied by prosecutors.

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Wow. Including this in article is almost as bad as what reporter is writing about. Making something up right after mentioning she refused to testify to imply it is related to not testifying and then just add prosecutors later denied this "claim". Could have included some facts about examination and even the apology issued by Kobe if wanting to show any objectivity.

If someone still has to trash her to defend Kobe they are basically proving that Kobe couldn't prove consent for injuries especially since he liked to choke women not his wife during sex.

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During the preliminary hearing, Det. Winters testified that the accuser had been examined the day after the alleged assault by Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners (SANE) at the Valley View Hospital in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

“[The nurse] stated that there were several lacerations to the victim’s posterior fourchette or vaginal area, and two of those lacerations were approximately one centimeter in length,” testified Det. Winters. “And there were many, I believe, 2 millimeter lacerations. Too many to count… [The nurse] stated that the injuries were consistent with penetrating genital trauma. That it’s not consistent with consensual sex.” Det. Winters further stated that the nurse told him the vaginal injuries had most likely occurred within “24 hours,” and that the accuser had “a small bruise on her left jaw line.” Also, that examiners had found “blood excretions” on Bryant’s T-shirt “to about the waistline.” The blood, testified Det. Winters, had “the same DNA profile as the victim in this case.”

Bryant’s defense team, on the other hand, brought up the accuser’s past sexual history. The accuser stated that she’d had consensual sex on June 27 or 28, and when the panties she wore to her medical exam the following day were tested, they found semen and a hair follicle that did not belong to Bryant. These were, for clarification purposes, a separate pair of panties she put on and wore to her exam—not the panties from the night in question, which were collected and tested separately—and the accuser claimed she’d accidentally put on a pair of dirty panties for the exam. Bryant’s defense team claimed that the vaginal trauma suffered by the accuser could have been from having “multiple partners” in a short time span, though Det. Winters had testified that a nurse told him the injuries had likely occurred in the past 24 hours.

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