Kobe should walk

Kobe Bryant Forum

This would set a bad precedent if Kobe was convicted of rape. It'd mean a woman can cry rape at anytime, and her word is deemed more credible than the man's. If she went to his room to fool around, then whatever she got, she asked for. Kobe should walk.

It's possible that she went to the room with the intention of "fooling around", but that doesn't mean she deserved whatever she got. It's still possible to be raped even when you've "asked" for it. If he gets too rough and she tells him to stop and he doesn't, or if she changes his mind and says stop but he doesn't, then it's rape. All that has to happen for it to constitute rape is for the man to keep going after the woman has said "stop".

Jeem you are totally disregarding the power of the jury and the legal system. Everyone accused of a crime must go to trial--celebrity or not. Your idea that "a woman can cry rape at anytime" is so masochist.

Ummm, it would set a bad precedent of Kobe was wrongly convicted, yes. And it would set a bad precedent if she managed to screw his life more based on a false charge.
Lets just hope the truth comes out, and that if he is guilty, he serves....and if he's not? She serves.

I think if you put it in historical perspective where black men are lynched, shot, dismembered for even looking at a white woman, then I think Kobe should walk even if he did get a little carried away. Because convicting him would reinforce the notion that when black men have designs on white women, they will be severely punished.

I think we need to get over that kind of racial past. Lets not forget, no, but lets NOT encourage it and live like that today. Kobe should be prosecuted IF he is guilty, white or black....

Attitudes like this continue to perpetuate the racial divide.....

Black, white, red, polka-dotted.... cheating is cheating and rape is rape. He got caught cheating. He hasn't been found guilty of rape. A woman can cry rape at any time. That doesn't mean that the man will be found guilty.

Jeem, I agree that whatever she got she asked for. HOWEVER, this does not mean Kobe will or will not (or should or should not) walk for a crime. There is nothing in the law about adultery. That part is between Kobe, his wife, and GOD. The court will decide if Kobe raped her or not, and we have yet to see the outcome there, so lets not get ahead of ourselves....

Kobe walks when Kobe walks... the rest is yet to come.

You hit the nail on the head...

I knew I shouldn't have gone into this forum. So if I were to go into a hotel room with a guy whatever happens to me is my fault?

If your daughter goes with a guy into a hotel room whatever happesn to her is her fault?

If your wife goes with a guy into a hotel room whatever happens to her is her fault?

If your MOTHER goes with a guy into a hotel room whatever happens to her is her fault?

Wake up. And as for the persecution of people by race, what about by gender? For years and years if a woman was forcibly raped it was considered her fault. She could have been walking home. It was her fault for being out late. It was her fault b/c it couldn't be a man's fault.

I don't know whether Kobe is guilty or not. But neither do you. You weren't in the hotel room. You don't know him. You don't know her. And I think it's sick that most of you are automatically taking his side. I thought in 2003 we were beyond that.

Lock up your wives, lock up your daughters. B/c obviously they can be raped and no one will believe they didn't ask for it.

Good girls don't go into bad boys hotel rooms.

People seem to have this romantic and heroic image of Kobe as a good boy.

Not all men will cheat given the opportunity... that aside, though, men have and will cheat on women they love more than anything. The fact is that sex, being an almost purely physical urge, is not the same as falling in love... hell, some guys I know treat it as though it were as basic as pooping. When you gotta go, you gotta go. You can love your wife to no end, but long lonely nights on the road without her, and that girl downstairs starts to look pretty good.

I feel bad for Kobe just because his infidelity is all over the news, when most of us get privacy about it. I feel even worse for his wife - I might be able to forgive a cheating husband if I didn't have to face his infidelity on a daily basis.

what jeem said earlier struck a chord, they shouldn't be able to convict a man based on a woman's word against his when she comes into his room late at night willingly. I know somebody in jail right now because a woman who we saw go into a room with him at a party, kissing and getting physical, decided it was rape the next morning. Our society, with it's aggressive attemps to be politically correct has gone beyond empowering women in this area. There are millions of women who now know they can use sex as a weapon, and if he loses this trial it will give them more precedent and power to use. Also, as much as earlier posters said let's forget about race and put it behind us, we can't, because "we" are a VERY fragmented society. Check on the yahoo boards and see all the racist trollers who can't wait to spread their hate, check out eagle county's history of racial profiling and the 70or so minorities who filed in that class action suit against the county, race does matter here, because there are plenty of people who are going to think that he did it just because of his color. Kobe is in a lot of trouble and so is any man who doesn't get a written consent form before and after sex.

I don't think that Kobe should get locked up because I don't think he raped her he already admited that he had sex with her but he did not rape her and to that Katelyn ***** if you didn't wanna sleep with him then why the **** did you go into his room you knew you wanted some so dont' star complainig now you trashy slut!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Man, some of you people sure see the world in black and white... even 40s sitcoms had shades of gray.

So, um, gosing, why is wanting a one-nighter bad? I mean, assuming that you're sleeping with someone who wants the same thing. Why does that make a person bad?

I wouldn't go to Kobe Bryant's hotel room. Now, President Bush is another matter. I would definitely go to his room any time of day or night.

Seriously, I think all of this good and bad stuff is a lot of baloney. No one is 100% good (except Jesus Christ), and probably no one is 100% bad -- most of us are a mixed breed, and some days the mix is different. If you always consistently act according to your goodness, then good for you. You obviously will never need to go to confession. But for the rest of humanity, we all make our share of stupid mistakes, and sometimes we flirt with danger and get burned, sometimes really bad. Sometimes, yes, we do things because our moral standard isn't right; but sometimes we fall into temptation and do things contrary to our goodness. I think that's why the scriptures use the phrase "fall into temptation." A fall means exactly that, a descent from a higher moral plane to a lower one.

Perhaps Kobe fell from a higher moral plane, or perhaps he had been in the gutter all along and we just didn't know it. Same for the girl. Since I don't know either one of them personally, it's not likely that I can make a qualified judgment about their "moral goodness" or "moral badness."

So, let me get this straight......After Kobe is convicted and sent to prison, when he goes into the showers (and we all know what goes on in the showers there) and Bubba and Jerome are waiting in there for him, he's asking for it, right?

Kobe has a clean record, and up until this point, his marriage didn't seem to have any problems. It's not HEROIC, just clean.

Ann 227 claims to have worked at one of his catered parties.

personaly i have never kissed a women for 5 minutes straight and it didnt go much further,maybe not always sex,but it went much further then just kissing.

5 minutes of kissing is a long time

O.K., AND YOU SAY ALL THAT TO SAY "WHAT"? Yes, he did commit adultery, so let God deal with that issue. Try and have a nice day nicegirbil. Why is it that I fluff your feathers so? By the way I don't hate this woman, I hate the fact that she's trying to ruin someone's life, for financial gain whether it be Kobe or whomever.