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Originally Posted by vailpass
Yep, case was dismissed because the girl dropped charges and declined to testify against Kobe. Kobe's attorneys refused to respond to any questions regarding a financial settlement.
I have no idea what happened between those two but IMHO if a girl brings false rape charges there should be a havey penalty including jail time.
OTOH Kobe should have been sentenced to a few days in the slammer for being guilty of Public Stupidity for getting himself into that one.
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The girl can't just 'drop the charges'. It's "state v. Bryant" not "girl v. Bryant". If the state wants to continue a prosecution, they'll continue it with or without her consent. The case was dismissed because the ruling at the preliminary hearing essentially told the prosecutors that their 'star' witness was making shit up on the fly and that they'd better get it straight before they went any further. It was as damning a ruling as I've seen in that situation. It was dimsmissed shortly thereafter and there was a financial settlement nearly a year later w/ a complete non-disclosure agreement (which was more valuable than the civil dismissal).
The same folks that are always going after Kobe on this always screw up the timeline and have never bothered to do the legwork on it. I've gone over it several times on here, but it seems like it pops up again every May/June. Essentially, the case was absolute dogshit. The woman never did get her story straight and the circumstantial evidence against her just kept mounting.
This was a situation where Bryant's celebrity actually hurt him. Had she just said some random college kid raped her, it's unlikely that charges would've even been filed. The evidentiary record for this thing was completely barren.