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It's a good answer but I'd just like to add that we have no clue what went on during the phase after he was accused. There could be many reasons why the DA didn't take the case to court but I focus I'm afraid on the victim - I feel she was so but that's alleged in some minds - but she began to face some terrible, truly horrible hate, social media, mail, in public and in the media that was led by the defence team's PR team and arm twisting.That is true, and it is very possible that this could have gone to trial had Kobe been represented by a shitty public defender (criminal charges are almost always prosecuted by a public prosecutor on behalf of the state and they are very good at what they do). It is a shame that wealth guarantees good representation; both parties should be represented in court with excellent counsel.
Where I continue to stumble, is that if he was caught dead to rights, then no amount of wealth would have saved the Eagle County prosecutors office from nailing him to a post and riding that high profile conviction to a lucrative federal prosecutors position. That the case didn't even go to trial says something about how solid the case was. If the forensic evidence was overwhelming, the only negotiation that would have occurred would have been the length of Kobe's sentence.
I say this as someone who loved to hate on Kobe while he was alive.
Normally it is an horrendous thing to face your rapist in court let alone the hatred of so many fans and the press. That's something that those responsible will never pay for but should feel some guilt over but we know how the world works. Rape cases must have success/failure stats without the pressure all around and who knows how much if at all it pressured the prosecution and victim?
So, he was never found guilty in a law court but you simply cannot have half-consent not being rape and yet pay through the nose not to have a criminal record, you cannot be half-pregnant. You are pregnant at any point of the process.