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SPORTS
THE BATTALION
Bryant defense says
it has evidence of
Kobe’s innocence
By Tim Dahlberg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAGLE, Colo. — Kobe
Bryant’s accuser showed up for
her rape exam wearing panties
containing another man’s sperm,
a startling discovery that defense
lawyers called “compelling evi
dence” the NBA star is innocent.
Bryant’s preliminary hearing
ended Wednesday with prosecu
tors telling a judge there was
“uncontradicted” evidence that
the Los Angeles Lakers’ guard
raped the 19-year-oid woman at
a mountain
BRYANT
resort.
“He held
her by the
back of the
neck with his
hand during
sexual inter
course.” pros
ecutor Greg
Chrittenden
said. “He lifted up her skirt. She
said ’no.’ He pulled down her
underpants and she said ’no.’ He
penetrated her from behind and
she cried.”
Judge Frederick Gannett said
he hoped to rule by Monday
whether Bryant will have to
stand trial on a sexual assault
charge that could send him to
prison for life.
Gannett only has to find there
is probable cause to belie%ve
Bryant raped the woman, some
thing defense attorney Pamela
Mackey told the judge prosecu
tors failed to prove because the
woman told her story through a
sheriff’s detective.
“She is not worthy of your
belief,” Mackey said.
Eagle County District
Attorney Mark Hurlbert said,
however, he was confident the
judge would send the case to trial.
“No prosecutor puts on their
whole case at preliminary hear
ing,” he said. “In this case you
saw kind of a sanitized version.”
If the two-day preliminary
hearing wasn’t the entire prose
cution case, it still contained
graphic details about an
encounter that began with the
woman excited to meet the bas
ketball superstar, escalated into
consensual kissing and hugging,
and ended with sex across the
back of a chair.
Prosecutors tried to portray
Bryant as an arrogant athlete
who held the woman down and
raped her, concerned only that
she might talk about the
encounter.
When it was the defense’s
turn to question the lead detec
tive in the case, Mackey tried to
poke holes in the woman’s story,
raise doubts about whether she
told Bryant “no” and show she
had sex with someone else two
days before the alleged assault
June 30.
“This is an extremely thin
case based mostly on hearsay,”
Mackey said.
She wasted no time getting
Detective Doug Winters to say
that the yellow underwear the
woman wore to her rape examai
a hospital the next day contained
sperm from another man, alonj
with Caucasian pubic hair,
The 25-year-old Bryant, who
is black, contends he had con
sensual sex with the woman.
Winters said the woman told
him she had consensual sex with
another man on June 28 and
used a condom, backing earlier
defense suggestions she was sex
ually active before her encounter
with Bryant.
Winters also said two pairs of
panties from the woman were
tested — one from the night of
June 30, the other the pair she
wore to a hospital for an exam
the next day.
The latter pair contained
blood and semen, Winters said.
“The accuser arrived al the
hospital wearing panties with
someone else’s semen and sperm
in them, not that of Mr. Bryant,
correct?” Mackey asked.
“That’s correct,” Winters
responded.
Mackey suggested injuries
found during the woman’s exam
could have come from having
repeated sex, a contention she
first made in court last week.
The defense contends the
tests on the underwear provide
Bryant with “compelling evi
dence of innocence.”
Stan Goldman, a professor al
Loyola Law School in Los
Angeles, said the argument
might be more of a public rela
tions move.
“The defense may be spin
ning this more for the public
than the court,” he said. “It’s
impressive, but its negative pub
lic relations value for the prose
cution is more significant than
its legal value.”
Bryant sat stoically with his
hands folded watching his attor
ney tear apart the prosecution’s
version of the case. Occasionally,
he leaned over and talked to his
other lawyer, Hal Haddon.
Mackey also managed to
introduce something prosecutors
didn’t talk about last week.
The night auditor sent police
a letter saying she saw the
woman as she came back to the
front desk at the Cordillera
Lodge & Spa.
“What the night auditor says
in her letter is the accuser did not
look or sound as if there had been
any problem,” Mackey said.
“Correct?” she asked
Winters.
“Yes,” he responded.
Winters also acknowledged
the woman didn’t tell him she told
Bryant “no” when he interviewed
her the day after the alleged rape.
“I asked the accuser why she
never told Mr. Bryant ‘no,’”
Winters wrote in his report.
Last week, Winters testified the
victim told him she told Bryant
“no” repeatedly, and that Bryant
even forced her to turn around and
face him and say it at one point.
It was not clear if that came
from a later interview with the
woman.
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