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Since the original trial last year, several new pieces of evidence have surfaced. Among other items, eye-witnesses have backed Tyson's claim that the pair had begun to kiss before they reached Tyson's hotel room...
Dershowitz, Harvard Law School's most high-profile professor, is representing boxer Mike Tyson in his appeal of a conviction for the rape of beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington...
Citing new evidence as the basis for the appeal, Dershowitz writes in the article that Tyson was "convicted of rape on the basis of testimony that we believe we can now prove was known to be false and incomplete by the prosecutors...
...Washington's real interest, he asserted, was in "millions of dollars riding on whether Mike Tyson was convicted or acquitted, since without a conviction, it would have been difficult for her to collect monetary damages or sell her story to the media...
Dershowitz said he feels obligated to "defend Tyson in the court of public opinion...If the prosecution had not started prosecution by tabloid, we would not have had to defend by tabloid...I am not going let Tyson go undefended...