Other Crap

Prosecutors will ask for Kobe dismissal - with a catch:

• "Prosecutors have agreed to dismiss sexual assault charges against Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant with one big catch - they want the right to retry the case at a later date". If I were defending him, I would strenuously object to this request. It obviously means the prosecution knows they can't win the case now, and Kobe has the usual right to a speedy trial without having this crap hanging over his head indefinitely. Therefore, the D.A. needs to shit, or get off the pot.
• For me the big question raised by this trial is "how can America retain competent prosecutors?" We have seen time and time again how public prosecutors, basically civil service wage drones, prove to be neither honest nor competent. Yet these people have the burden of proof against a rich celebrity who can afford a battery of the country's best lawyers. How can our legal system ever convict such a celebrity? I'm not saying Kobe is or isn't innocent. But if he is innocent and the prosecutors knew that because their own expert witnesses were telling them so (as seems to be indicated in this case), then they shoud have dropped the case and issued Kobe a public apology, instead of trying to hide the evidence from the defense. And if he is guilty, the best lawyers in the world should be working full-time to convict him. How to we get to the point where we do one of those two things?