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CMV: if Kobe Bryant's accuser had testified against him in court, he likely would've been convicted of rape.

In 2003, Kobe Bryant was arrested for sexual assault. Bryant insisted that the sex was consensual, and the charges were later dropped as his accuser refused to testify.

Consider these facts:

* When questioned by police, Bryant lied repeatedly about the encounter. It wasn't until the police informed him that they had physical evidence did he confess that it happened.

* According to both Bryant and his accuser, she never verbally consented to what happened.

* After the trial, Bryant admitted in a public statement that he could understand that his victim didn't feel that she consented to the encounter.
gpt
should have and likely would have are very different things, especially when it comes to rape charges.  i have personally attended somewhere between ten and twenty sexual assault hearings where the evidence was more compelling than what you've listed, and where no conviction resulted.

in terms of your three bullets, the last one is irrelevant, because it was after the charges were dropped. he certainly would not have said that at trial (he may not have said anything at all).  the second is relevant, but not dispositive because verbal consent wasn't required.  the first one is relevant certainly, but then again, there was no trial.  bryant's team definitely would not have missed the opportunity to make the entire trial about the accuser, turn it into a massive media circus, and manufacture all kinds of ways to make the accuser look like a liar.  bryant either would not have testified or he would have testified after extensive trial prep by the best trial attorneys in the country.  the accuser would have had her interests represented by the state, which had already demonstrated a bias in favor of Bryant during the aftermath of the report.

all in all, i think you're being extraordinarily optimistic about how rape trials proceed.  the accuser chose not to move forward for a reason; specifically, that the thing having happened is only a small part of a conviction actually being obtained.