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...hearing last week that the encounter between an unnamed 19-year-old hotel worker and Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, who is charged with raping her, started out innocently enough: a chat in the basketball star's room and some consensual kissing. It was only as the alleged victim prepared to leave, the detective said, that Bryant's behavior turned ugly...
...appears, so has Bryant's defense strategy. His attorney Pamela Mackey named the alleged victim several times at the hearing, apologizing each time for "forgetting" to keep the woman's identity confidential, as required by the court. Then she suggested that the alleged victim's vaginal lacerations were perhaps a result of her having had sex with three men in three days...
...there may be a method to Mackey's hardball tactics: Mackey didn't explicitly say the victim slept with three men on three consecutive days. She merely implied that the defense has found two men willing to say they had sex with the accuser on two days other than the one on which she encountered Bryant. And, according to legal experts, Mackey can now drop the suggestion entirely. She is not legally bound to provide proof of the implication or to repeat it if the case moves to trial. In a county of 42,000 people, many of whom...
...national championship winning crew returned to Cambridge to defend its title the following year under similar circumstances, but fell victim to injury along the way, missing the Grand Final at IRAs and settling for a disappointing seventh...
...only nine of the Cambridge indecent assaults involved an attacker who was a stranger to the victim...