Anyway, so much for that digression. I think it is about the money in this case. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0810042kobe1.html

Now, as to the issue at hand:

FACT: Cops f**ked up the investigation…again. This includes the prosecution. Add to that the allegations that the alleged rape victim f**ked some other guy AFTER she was allegedly raped by Bryant, and that does not sit well with me. I wouldnt say she’s a rape victim…but a money-grubbing SLUT.

Kobe’s gonna walk. And then I hope he turns the tables on this so-called “victim” and sues her instead for every damn penny she has!

Before every conservative in America has a wet dream about these Swift Boat revelations, ask yourselves what YOUR candidate accomplished in his life that merits your utmost respect?

Talk about hypocrisy.

I’ve got to say, given that Kobe checked into this hotel just a couple of hours before the incident occurred, and was talking to the police about it by the next day, when he was up there for knee surgery, all I can say is he must be a busy little beaver.

Um, maybe that wasn’t the perfect choice of metaphores.

“I’m rather surprised that you are so sure the alleged victim in this situation is lying. I’d give her the benefit of the doubt till the court case is underway, at least.”

followed by :

“…I hope this young lady sticks to her guns and puts the boots to Kobe in the way he surely deserves. I hope she gets him in the criminal court and then goes back and gets him in civil court!”

Yikes! So much for ‘innocent until proven guilty’…

The Kobi case strikes me as as just one in a line of legal reality shows. Complete with a cast of characters, little overhead production costs and reverse morality in the sense that everyone is guilty just by appearing. They do as much damage to our concept of order and our institutions and ideals as Jerry Springer. They demean the people they portray in a kind of Gong show without the benefit of a gong to hurry them along. But the incalculable harm is to our sense of justice.

That’s why when the elite media features a legal reality case, you know there will be no resolution, even if the media has to work hand in glove to make sure it doesn’t. In anthropology, the presence of an observer can alter reality. In legal reality t.v., it always does.

Someone ought to issue a gag order to ABC.

For one, we don’t know the facts yet. They are filtered by lawyers and prosecutors and everyone in between who has an agenda, not the least ABC and women’s groups they particularly favor. In Colorado, rape laws are as political as the appointment of judges and prosecutors. The Colorado law to protect the identity of the victim is a farce. The victim is an adult, everyone knows her name, so the anonymity provided by calling her the “alleged victim” is preposterous. The public has as much right to know the name of his accuser as the accused, if only so the public can participate in information sharing. Not in Colorado.

As for her sexual history, it is no more legally relevant than the history of anyone on trial and wholly irrelevant to the decision making required of juries.

Kobi Bryant means big bucks to someone and you have to wonder at those “accidental” releases of information, but as this is a state where the Ramsey murder case is an example of sterling justice, I never expected better. Based on what I have read I think all of them are miscreants.