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Thursday, September 4, 2003
ecords released in Bryant case
By Jon Sarche
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER — Authorities
looking to arrest NBA star
Lobe Bryant on a sexual assault
:harge also wanted to charge
tim with false imprisonment,
according to a copy of the arrest
/arrant unsealed Wednesday.
The handful of documents
released by a judge contain few
letails but provide a glimpse
into how authorities put together
their case.
Separately, a state judge
rejected a newspaper’s request
|to release recordings of 911
rails made from the home of
[Bryant’s accuser, saying they are
[“intensely personal” and could
[subject the woman to "harass-
[ment and abuse.”
Bryant was charged with a
[single count of felony sexual
[assault alleging he raped an
[employee at a Colorado resort
[where he was a guest June 30.
The Los Angeles Lakers’
guard has said the two had con
sensual sex. An Oct. 9 prelimi
nary hearing will determine
whether the case will go to trial.
While
Bryant was
only charged
with sexual
assault, the
July 3 arrest
warrant said
there was
“probable
cause” Bryant
was also
guilty of false imprisonment, a
misdemeanor punishable by up
to a year in jail.
The decision to charge
Bryant with only the sexual
assault count was made by
Eagle County District Attorney
Mark Hurlbert. He has not
explained why he pressed only
one charge.
The prosecutor probably
chose to drop that charge to
avoid the risk of a conviction on
BRYANT
false imprisonment rather than
the more serious assault charge,
Denver criminal defense attor
ney Dan Recht said.
“The jury won’t know it’s a
class 2 misdemeanor and won’t
even know it’s a misdemeanor.
False imprisonment has a seri
ous ring to it,” Recht said.
Conviction on the sexual
assault charge could bring a sen
tence of four years to life in prison
or 20 years to life on probation.
There was no immediate
response Wednesday to calls
seeking comment from Bryant’s
attorneys, the district attorney
and the Eagle County sheriff’s
office.
Authorities have not said
what allegedly happened in
Bryant’s hotel suite.
Meanwhile, the Vail Daily had
asked local police for records
about emergency responses to
the woman’s home for 12 months
starting last July. The records
include unspecified requests for
medical help and a report of the
alleged sexual assault.
In denying the newspaper’s
request, District Judge Richard
Hart said he agreed with police
and a psychologist who filed an
affidavit at the woman’s request
that releasing the records would
harm her and jeopardize her and
her family’s safety.
The woman “has already
experienced harassment, threats
and abuse,” Hart wrote. “The
subject matter of the records is
intensely personal and disclo
sure would likely present an
unfair perception of the alleged
victim, subjecting her to further
harassment and abuse.”
Also unsealed Wednesday was
Judge Russell Granger’s order
allowing Bryant to leave Colorado
on July 4 about a half-hour after
he surrendered to authorities.
Earlier this week, media
organizations filed notice that
they will appeal Judge Frederick
Gannett’s order to withhold from
the public most of the detailed
court records in the case.
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AUSTIN (AP) — Texas had the lowest
graduation rate in the Big 12 for the 1996
freshman class of football players, accord
ing to statistics released by the NCAA.
Only 19 percent of the 23 players who
signed scholarships that year graduated
within six years. That rate was the lowest
in the Big 12. And according to a compar
ison of national data by the Austin
American-Statesman, it was the second-
lowest rate among Division I schools. Only
the 16 percent posted by the University of
Pittsburgh was worse.
Texas had an overall graduation rate
among athletes in all sports of 56 percent.
Texas A&M graduated 65 percent of its
student-athletes and 56 percent of its foot
ball players.
The NCAA bases the graduation report
on the number of members of a freshman
class who obtain a degree within six years.
Factors that lower a school’s graduation
rate include players who drop out and
don’t get a degree; players who transfer,
regardless of whether they graduate from
another school; and players who leave
early for professional careers and don’t get
their degrees within six years.
Baylor’s 75 percent graduation rate was
the best for the 1996 freshman football
class in the Big 12. Boston College had the
best rate in the nation at 95 percent.
In last year’s NCAA graduation rate
study, which evaluated the freshmen of
1995, Texas football had a rate of 50 per
cent. The 1996 recruiting class was the last
signed by former coach John Mackovic.
I expect it to get back up
to the 50s (percent),
if not higher.
— Brian Davis
UT assistant men's athletic director
“That class was kind of anamoly,” said
Brian Davis, assistant men’s athletic direc
tor for academic services at UT. “I came
here in 1998, and the biggest thing that
struck me was that there were seven or
eight players gone by the end of their
sophomore year and we subsequently had
several others transfer. We got down to a
handful of guys who stayed and half those
guys went to the NFL.”
Mackovic was gone after the 1997 sea
son, replaced by current head coach Mack
Brown.
“When you have a transition year, there
are a number of kids who transfer and a num
ber of those were in that group,” Brown said.
“You don’t get credit when someone trans
fers out and graduates somewhere else.”
According to the NCAA study, 62 per
cent of all Division I student-athletes grad
uated from the 1996 freshman class, up 2
percentage points from the previous year.
Texas’ overall graduation rate for athletes
was 56 percent.
That’s also 3 percentage points better
than the rate for all students nationwide.
Nationally, 54 percent of Division I-A
football players from the class of 1996-97
have graduated, higher than the 42 percent
rate for men’s basketball players and lower
than the 66 percent rate for women’s bas
ketball players.
At Texas, Davis said the rates for the
next couple of football classes should be
improved.
“I expect it to get back up to the 50s
(percent), if not higher,” he said. “I feel
good about what we’ve done with the guys
who’ve stayed.”
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Perry signs Dotson s warrant
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov.
Rick Perry on Wednesday signed a warrant
seeking the extradition of former Baylor
basketball player Carlton Dotson from
Maryland.
Dotson is accused of murder in the
death of Patrick Dennehy, his former
teammate.
Dotson has been indicted by a
McLennan County grand jury and the dis
trict attorney’s office asked Perry to seek
his return from his home state.
The formal extradition request was sent
to Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich.
Dotson, 21, is being held at Kent
County Detention Center in Maryland.
Rick Morris, Maryland’s extradition
coordinator, said late Wednesday his office
had not received any extradition paperwork
from Texas’ governor. After Texas’ request
is forwarded to Maryland, Dotson will
have a chance to appear before an assistant
attorney general at a hearing in the office of
the secretary of state.
The hearings, held only by Maryland
and South Carolina, give suspects another
chance to tell authorities why they don’t
want to leave the state to face charges,
Morris said.
Dennehy’s body was found in a field
near Waco on July 25, four days after
Dotson was charged with murder. An
autopsy report showed that Dennehy died
of two gunshot wounds to the head.
Dennehy’s disappearance in mid-June,
and the naming of Dotson as a “person of
interest” in the case, prompted intense
scrutiny of Baylor and its basketball pro
gram.
Baylor basketball coach Dave Bliss and
athletic director Tom Stanton resigned
Aug. 8. School investigators said they dis
covered that Bliss was involved in two
players receiving improper financial aid,
and that staff members did not properly
report failed drug tests.
If convicted, Dotson faces up to life in
prison.
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