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More details of the cross examniation on the accusser.
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The young woman worked hard to figure out that Bryant was coming to stay at the resort where she worked as a concierge.
She stayed late at work that day so she could meet him.
With only four rooms occupied in the 56-room lodge, she assigned Bryant to one of the most remote rooms and put his bodyguards in the opposite direction.
She gave Bryant a tour of the lodge during which, she said, they flirted with each other.
Invited to visit Bryant's room later, she took a circuitous, private route there, going outside the lodge and using employee-only hallways.
She expected Bryant to "come on to her" if she went to his room.
She willingly joined Bryant in kissing and hugging in his room. Bryant, who is married, has admitted having sex with the woman but has insisted it was consensual.
When a detective first interviewed her, the woman did not claim that she said "No" to Bryant, and the detective even asked her why she didn't say "No." She said she physically indicated her unwillingness to have sex, placing her hands on Bryant's to stop him, and she told the detective that Bryant then stopped. In later interviews, she said she did tell Bryant "No."
Although a bellhop earlier had been reported to be the first person who encountered the woman after the alleged assault, and he allegedly found her distraught, a night auditor working at the desk where the woman returned from Bryant's room wrote prosecutors later that the woman seemed completely calm to her and did more work before going home.
When the woman went to a hospital the next day for a rape exam, semen was found in her underpants that wasn't Bryant's. The underpants she had worn on the night of the alleged assault contained a drop of blood.
A pubic hair, not Bryant's, also was found.
The woman has acknowledged having consensual sex with one other partner around the same time as the alleged assault. Defense lawyers, maintaining that there may have been two other partners, contend that could account for the injuries the woman said she received when Bryant assaulted her.
Police officers who visited Bryant's room after she complained that she had been sexually assaulted did not seize evidence from his bathroom, where the woman had said she had wept and bled.
"It's a picture entirely different than the picture the prosecution painted," Pozner said.
"What the defense scored was not a single point or a point here and a point there, but completely related points in the story showing a whole different version of what happened that night, and that version was based on the complainant's own statements," he said.
"It was a devastating day for the prosecution."
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