Kobe's accuser

[The Brain]

I think its more about the fact that the accused is a celebrity. How often have we heard a celebrity accuse a random \"regular person\" of sexual misconduct?
Has that EVER happened? If it did, it would be interesting to see which side was dealt the \"credibility card\".

It's not always celebrity. I'm thinking of the Central Park Jogger case as well. Nothing-- and I mean <i>nothing</i>-- personal was ever known about this woman until the past few months this year, when she came out with a book about the experience.

But the five or six kids they arrested and charged with the crime had their lives put under the microscope. The newspapers were doing exposes on "wilding", and every teenager in the city was being looked at like they were going to gang rape someone at any moment. And remember, I believe several of them were still <i>minors</i> at the time, and they weren't fully protected by the same methods used in other types of cases.