Eagle County Detective Doug Winters testified at a preliminary hearing last week that the encounter between an unnamed 19-year-old hotel worker and Los Angeles Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant, who is charged with raping her, started out innocently enough: a chat in the basketball star's room and some consensual kissing. It was only as the alleged victim prepared to leave, the detective said, that Bryant's behavior turned ugly.
Now, it appears, so has Bryant's defense strategy. His attorney Pamela Mackey named the alleged victim several times at the hearing, apologizing each time for "forgetting" to keep the woman's identity confidential, as required...
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