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After the trial ended, Bludworth insisted, "Based on the evidence, I would charge ((Smith)) again today. This wasn't date rape. They had just met. This was a sexual battery, intercourse without her consent." The police, prosecutors, rape counselors and the doctors who examined the woman believed her. During the investigation, she passed two polygraph tests and a voice- stress analysis. She stuck to her story through five grueling interrogations by police and prosecutors and an exhausting three-day deposition by the defense. The bruises on her torso were consistent with the attack she described. Says Bludworth: "There was absolutely...
Presenting the women's stories to a jury was another matter. Florida bars testimony about a rape defendant's sexual history unless it shows a striking and detailed similarity to the crime he is charged with. Moreover, none of the women had filed charges against Smith. One of Lasch's most controversial moves was to release the three women's stories, perhaps mistakenly hoping that prospective jurors would remember them even if they were not introduced into evidence. Bludworth says Florida's "sunshine law," which requires that public records be made available on request, left Lasch with no choice...
...maintain her anonymity. Only hours after the jury read its verdict, TV technicians on some channels dramatically dissolved the blurry blob that had hidden her face from viewers while the trial proceeded. From now on she will be recognizable as the woman who accused William Kennedy Smith of rape -- and was not believed...
...York Post and now does checkbook journalism for A Current Affair, regularly turns up in public places, stage-whispering into his cellular phone. Dunleavy actually becomes a cog in the machinery of justice when Smith's attorney, Roy Black, shreds the credibility of Anne Mercer, one of the alleged rape victim's principal witnesses, by accusing her of spicing up her testimony after receiving $40,000 from Dunleavy's show...
Deep in their hearts, most journalists know that it's a waste of resources to have 300 reporters covering a murky rape trial in Southern Florida while the economy is disintegrating, the tropical rain forest is vanishing, the Bush Administration is stumbling, and the AIDS crisis is worsening. But the public seemingly can't get enough of the Kennedys, so reporters pour in from Italy, from France, from Spain, from Britain, from Manhattan, from everywhere. "I am here because of the Kennedy name," says Yvon Samuel of France-Soir. "Willie Smith is a nobody...