Don't Compare Duke Lacrosse to Kobe Bryant

This is absolutely ludicrous. Kobe Bryant raped that woman.

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You are a bigot!

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Bull! she didnt testify because the case came apart.She was caught lying to police as well as having sex the very next day after being so brutally attacked..Pamela punked out the case and she got paid as well then she decided to not talk..big picture

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I wonder if Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton are going to apologize to the three Lacrosse players. Oh how quickly we were to pass judgment before hearing all the facts.

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Good question. Will all the people that marched, march again to take it back. No way. Al & Jessie are to busy with radio these days. Al Sharpton is always getting sucked in and then jumping to conclusions before the evidence is in. He never says he's sorry.
The Kobe and Duke class are not even close to be compared. Did the article bring up the fact he was married at the time. How about a moral issue. He never denied the sex.

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The difference is, Kobe did it, the lacrosse players didn't. Kobe got off because he paid her off!

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This is hackery at best, let me dismantle this nonsense..

"The charges against Bryant were dropped for one reason, and one reason only: The accuser decided she did not want to testify."

That's if you believe the supposed victim, but every lawyer at the time knew that she had a shabby case at best. It isn't a stretch to think that the cases were dropped because she didn't have a snowballs chance of winning.

"In the Bryant case, the evidence was ambiguous."

Ambiguous? Really? The accompanying occupants of the rooms surrounding Bryants didn't hear any yelling, the nightclerk claimed that the woman in question was laughing and counting money with her after said encounter, the various semen found in her undergarments, her friends that said that they would testify to her bragging about the encounter afterwards. Ambiguous my ass..

"Bryant's statements evolved, concluding when he said this after his case was dismissed:

[Bryant quote]"Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did."[Bryant quote]

But the final agreement was already finalized, to use that statement is pure lunacy. For him to say anything else could have gotten him in trouble.

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I THINK THAT IN THE DUKE CASE IF THE GIRL WAS WHITE(TRASH) AND GUYS WAS BROTHERS(BLACK)IT WAS WOULD HAD BEEN TOTALLY DIFFERENT. THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY HAS A GOOD TRACK RECORD OF UNEQUAL"FAIRNESS"WHEN IT COMES TO SITUATIONS LIKE THIS.

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This is just another ridiculous attempt at keeping Kobe's name tied in with an accusation that was dropped because of a lack of evidence in an already waning case.

I just wish Kobe would have received the presumption of innocence from "mainstream America" that these guys from Duke were given. While everyone calls Kobe a "rapist" because it just feels so refreshing coming from their lips, some of the same people are the main ones shouting about how the lacrosse players should have not been dragged through this ordeal.

It's wrong for anyone to be accused of something they didn't do, and even worse for a prosecutor to carry on in the hopes of making a name for himself. BUT... I wonder if America would call for the head of a prosecutor like the one in the case of Darryl Hunt, or the Clemson football players?

Never heard of those cases? That's what I thought.

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In the Duke case for anyone that listened, the accuser changed her story multiple times, her fellow stripper ( a black lady), said that nothing happened and that she (the accuser) went back in after all of this had allegedly gone down, and no DNA evidence was found. No DNA evidence was found how utter ridiculous is that?, if she was raped as she said she was? The conclusion was that there was no proof in the pudding. And while I am on my soapbox, yes I will agree that justice isn't always perfect in this country and it has never been. Yet in most cases minorities aren't singled out to be victims of the justice system any longer. I, myself a white male with some Indian inheritance that wouldn't be known by anyone, was forced into pleading guilty to a misdemeanor that I didn't committ. And this is from a person that didn't have a criminal record, but because the police mistakenly beat me up I had to be charged with a crime. I, to this day think that I could have defended myself and beat the rap just by telling the truth but the jury might have believed the cop's lies? You never know? So, the point is, injustice does happen and you don't have to be a minority. But there was no evidence to convict the lacrosse players. This world shouldn't be about black and white in these issues, it should be about equalty, about justice about the evidence.
And just to remind you that sometimes the evidence cannot convict you (even when it is definitely there to do so), if you have bundles of money even if you are black. Remember O.J. Simpson? This case, the Duke case, wasn't about race as far as the outcome and America needs to wake up and realize that race isn't usually a factor anymore. Peace Out.

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The only different in these two cases are that the big black man just can't keep his hand off the white woman And this sex needed black woman just wanted these good white boys. Folks need not to forget their history; Ever time I look at my light sink I know that master took a lot of walks down to the slave house to make me and others like me. No one can says what happen in any of these case, because we were not there. however we all can say what happen in the slave house! And I know; we need to forget this part of history. And I have still yet to see the white woman picture and name on TV.

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."- Malcom X

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The innocence of the lacrosse players was established early on by the absence of DNA evidence.Nifong ignored this fact and prosecuted "the old fashioned way", which means on the word of an anonymous accuser and nothing more.

I'm not a lawyer, but I understand that every state has a law that allows this,based on the notion that "women don't lie".

Even if Nifong ends up in jail where he belongs,these laws still stand.

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The innocence of the lacrosse players was established early on by the absence of DNA evidence.Nifong ignored this fact and prosecuted "the old fashioned way", which means on the word of an anonymous accuser and nothing more.

I'm not a lawyer, but I understand that every state has a law that allows this,based on the notion that "women don't lie".

Even if Nifong ends up in jail where he belongs,these laws still stand.

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Stupid. The girl didn't want to testify because she had 14 diff guys' sperm in her panties. It was a hoax.

Ambiguous? Please.

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Sorry, but you obviously did not follow the Kobe "case" at all. The alleged victim admitted to lying to the officers during her questioning after word came about that Kobe's lawyers had proof of such. Her admission which was in writing (and is still available at the smokinggun)came 1 week prior to the start of the trial. The prosecution (which was very shady and corrupt) out of Eagle laid the groundwork for their case based on those initial statements that she decided to retract....this caused the case to fall apart. His statement that you quote was obviously written as part of an agreement to let the case die, as it was costing Kobe millions even if he was innocent.

Ambiguos does not apply to the Kobe case. In our country your innocent till proven guilty, nothing was proven other than her admitted lies and sex capades as proven in her DNA filled underwear. Kobe was NEVER tried, never proven guilty, and is therefore innocent.

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