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http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/09/01/bryant.trial/index.html
CNN's senior legal analyst is calling the prosecution's handling of the case
"a disgrace."
"That this prosecutor's office would charge Kobe Bryant with a crime that
could have left him in prison for 20 years, and branded him a sex offender
for the rest of his life -- and now they simply walk away from this case?
.... It is a disgrace that these prosecutors have brought a case on such
flimsy grounds," Jeffrey Toobin said.
Both sides had been waiting for a ruling on prosecution claims that DNA
tests performed by the defense involved a contaminated control panel. The
testing was done on swabs taken from Bryant's accuser during a rape exam.
The defense argued the tests showed the presence of semen from a man other
than Bryant. However, the prosecution dropped its claims Wednesday.
Earlier Wednesday, Bryant's defense team filed a motion to get the charge
dropped against him, claiming the prosecution suppressed critical
exculpatory evidence when it failed to inform the defense that it was
rescinding its endorsement of a forensic pathologist the prosecution planned
to use as an expert witness.
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