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Parker declined comment, but an unnamed source told the Boston Herald that the previous lawyers left because they did not agree with the strategy put forward by Pring-Wilson’s parents, who are high-profile lawyers in Colorado...
...initial stages of the encounter were never in dispute. Bryant, in Colorado to undergo a knee operation at a clinic in Vail, checks into the Lodge & Spa at Cordillera in nearby Edwards on June 30, 2003. The front-desk clerk, a 19-year-old woman, shows him around the place and later visits him in his room, anticipating a brush with fame. They kiss by mutual agreement. Then they have sex: forced, she says; consensual, he says. He is arrested on July 4 and two weeks later charged with felony sexual assault...
...semen was found on her body and in her underwear--was mistakenly e-mailed to news organizations. And last week a jury questionnaire that also contained the accuser's name as well as a list of 150 potential witnesses was inadvertently leaked. Karen Salaz, a spokeswoman for the Colorado courts, says she is haunted by the mistakes but adds, "We've had 12-hour days, and we're only human...
...leaks removed any protection for the accuser, a one-time student at the University of Northern Colorado who once tried out for American Idol. Her ex-boyfriend, Johnray Strickland, portrays a young woman under siege: "It all affected her, the press and the tabloids and the friends who were selling her out. Wherever we went, people would yell...
Women's rights advocates, who worry because the loss in the criminal case could discourage women from reporting sex crimes, took some solace in Bryant's apology. Said Cynthia Stone of the Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault: "If this had been dismissed without that statement, it would have been devastating. It was a validation...