(February 7, 2020 at 7:13 pm)Huggy Bear Wrote: I didn't say Kobe did...
My point was IF people confess, or accept plea deals for crimes they didn't commit, why do you believe Kobe's statement is somehow a moment of introspection and not just a statement prepared for him and directed to repeat by his lawyers?
There was no admission, and no plea deal. While I'm sure the list of reasons that people get themselves into that shit is long, it bears no relevance to a situation in which nothing of the sort happened.
His lawyers would have absolutely no reason to tell him to say that. If anything, they'd tell him not to. They probably did, since he mentioned that he sought assurance that it wouldn't be used against him. He stuck his neck out in an explicitly introspective way and said, in effect, that he doesn't think he raped anyone, but could understand why she would think otherwise.
Why is believing him about this such a problem?
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