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Kobe Brayant was charged with felony sexual assault by the Eagle County, Colorado prosecutor on Friday. Bryant is accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year old woman at a hotel on June 30. If convicted, Bryant could face up to life in prison. The trial is set to begin on August 6.

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This is just crazy. What a way for these sluts to make millions out of good men.

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Katelyn Kristine Faber
0817 Brush Creek Court
Eagle, CO 81631
(970) 328-6652
[email protected]

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By Michael Cacioppo, Pres. SpeakoutVail, Inc. - LOS ANGELES (allegedly) � An alleged witness to the Kobe Bryant alleged rape of a 19-year-old Eagle woman wrote Speakout! that Kobe Bryant was heard calling the alleged victim a �white bitch.�
A person identifying themselves with a female name (Speakout! is withholding the name) wrote Wednesday, July 23rd, �I was upstairs of Kobe and I heard him shout, among other things over 23 minutes, �...white Bitch...� Does that constitute a �hate crime?� Can he be put away for 14 years in (the) Federal Penitentiary?�
Speakout! responded to the email by asking for the writer�s phone number, allegedly in Los Angeles, but was emailed back, �(Name withheld) won't let me tell. I was born in (country withheld) and grew up in US. I have faced racism all my life. When we heard Kobe saying �...White Bitch...� I knew something was going on.�
(Name withheld) won't let me talk about it because our careers (careers withheld) are in danger. I just couldn't let this go. It hurt me so much.�
Speakout! then contacted Gerry Engle, a partner at Cordillera, the hotel that Bryant stayed at on June 30th, the night of the alleged sexual assault. Engle was asked if Speakout! could view a list of names of guests staying at the resort on June 30th, in order to verify if the emailer was actually staying at the hotel that day.
�We can never verify a guest name in the hotel because that and service are the number one rule in hospitality,� Engle stated. Speakout! responded that his answer was understandable.
A minute after Speakout! received the email declining to give Speakout! a phone number, Speakout! received another email from the alleged witness which said, �It's definitely a Federal case.�
Also, at 3am this morning (July 25th), another email was received by Speakout! saying, �I cannot tell you any more, (name withheld) my boyfriend and I are fighting about this. He thinks it will destroy our careers.�

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In the years since I was raped, almost every state in the country, including Colorado, passed rape shield laws to protect victims from a second, unnecessary humiliation. Courts and legislatures redefined the crime to eliminate the requirement that women resist to the utmost to prove non-consent. "No" nolonger means "yes" as a matter of law.

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if convicted, Bryant, 24, could go to prison for four years to life, even as a first offender with no criminal past. Probation alone would last a minimum of 20 years. Lifetime supervision would be possible. Either sentence would include a state-required management program that evaluates convicted sex offenders with lie detectors and the plethysmograph, a device that measures arousal patterns.

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From a business perspective, it's great for NBA. It's reality television, people love train wreck television and you hate to admit it.

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And talking about "train wreck television," Kobe do not want cameras in the courtroom. What's going on here?: What is Kobe scared of?

My name is Mota Ogallala Tekumseh, the proud native American

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ABC News was also told examiners found evidence that the alleged victim had "vaginal tearing." Prosecutors could argue this is not consistent with consensual sex. Experts say the defense could rebut this in several ways, including that vaginal tearing could be sustained during consensual sex, or was not incurred during sex with Bryant.

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Originally posted by Thompson Buraimoh:
I can't believe it. This ain't right, at all. My eyes are drooping with tears right now in what the system is trying to do to this young man, Kobe Bryant. This really sucks:

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Kobe Brayant was charged with felony sexual assault by the Eagle County, Colorado prosecutor on Friday. Bryant is accused of sexually assaulting a 19-year old woman at a hotel on June 30. If convicted, Bryant could face up to life in prison. The trial is set to begin on August 6.

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This is just crazy. What a way for these sluts to make millions out of good men.

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