Kobe Bryant’s accuser criticized

I am outraged by how cowardly and spoiled Kobe Bryant’s accuser is. The thing that I feel is a perfect example of this is how she feels that the criminal case cannot be won in her favor, so she expects to throw the criminal case away and instead file a civil case.

I feel that giving up on the criminal case and instead having the civil case displays greed rather than pursuing justice. The victim has already received $20,000 from Colorado. How much more money does she want? She just can’t accept a loss. If she could, she would’ve accepted the outcome of the criminal case instead of having the civil case to catch her.

Additional examples include how she refuses to reveal her identity and yet expects to rise to destiny (which I consider the definition of coward), how she requests her mental and sexual history to be ignored but wants the fact that she paid $20,000 for therapy services and how her mental state has been affected to be included, and how she claims that transcripts that "are extremely dangerous to her claim" make jurors for the criminal case favor the defense.

If the content of the transcripts affect the case so much, then there is no reason or argument why it shouldn’t be considered useful evidence in selecting a winner. If her claim is honest, no need to hide any evidence whatsoever.

The prosecution refuses to take the victim’s sexual life around the crime date as evidence. However, the Colorado Rape Shield law states that such history is irrelevant unless it can make the defense innocent or guilty.

In this case, it can, and is quite useful. For example, the accuser was sexually active shortly after the accused rape happened, which defeats her statement that she was strongly affected by the alleged crime, because obviously she would have more things to think about or do than have more sex.

The prosecution expects to introduce Kobe’s statements to police at the trial and he has been forced to do so, but the prosecution apparently gets to choose what they want to tell about themselves and what they don’t. I have yet to see the prosecution not complain.

Ian Agar

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