It's Over
 

Accuser Refuses to Continue with Trial.

Anybody surprised?

With the way the procesution's case has been falling apart in the past months, no. Her lawyers jumped the gun and went to trial before they had a clear idea of what happened and a solid way to prove it. I have the feeling they wanted to go to trial solely because it was a trial against a sports celebrity. High profile trial against a big sports celebrity. Good for career, regardless of outcome.

No wonder the woman quit...her name and medical history "accidentally" released? I'd quit, too, if that happened to me. She was getting death threats. I'm not surprised that she quit, I'm just surprised that she hung in there as long as she did.

Ok, armchair jury member here I know, but I've always thought she would eventually drop it because it was obvious he was innocent.

Ten to one the civil suit settlement check has been deposited already.

That's not out of the question. He made some kind of public apology.

Obvious, how? Just wondering how you know.

Obvious, how? Just wondering how you know.

Mostly it was her character that caused me to not buy her story. I know, I know, she could be a prostitute and still be "raped" if that one time happened to be against her will, but I'm one of those old-fashioned people who feels you CAN make character judgments about people.

After a week that included sex with something like 9 guys in the last three days, she voluntarily comes up to his room, knocks on the door, goes inside willingly--is raped, although no one heard any screaming and she never claimed he had a weapon to keep her quiet--then she sends a text-message to her friend about it, the contents of which the prosecution bent over backwards to keep secret (the judge ruled it would have been in, had they ever gone to trial)--then she has sex with, if I remember correctly, at least a couple other people before going to the doctor a few days later and reporting that she was "raped" three guys ago.

And it's not like we're talking about Mike Tyson, with a history of complaints from different women. Kobe Bryant has never had a complaint against him before, and I strongly suspect he never will again.

Well, if all that is true (and it is now hard to say, since there will be no criminal trial), and she has in fact accepted a settlement (the last I heard, the civil trial was still simmering ala OJ Simpson's case, so that, too is hard to say), then if she wasn't a prostitute before she met Kobe, she's surely one now.

So, does this mean Lower Merion High School is going to go through with the Nike deal (something about Kobe Bryant high school jerseys)?

Just for the girls. ;)