Denver Post
Issues raised at today's hearing
Saturday, January 24, 2004 -
The top issues covered during today's hearing in the sexual assault case against Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant:
- Defense request for information from prosecutors regarding T-shirts mocking Bryant: Defense attorney Pamela Mackey said she hasn't received the information she wants about who among the sheriff's office staff received the shirts and said she plans her own investigation. Prosecutor Dana Easter said the prosecution had complied with the request. - Defense's request for independent testing of evidence: The defense will be allowed to have clothing and other pieces of evidence tested by its own experts after the Colorado Bureau of Investigation has completed its tests. - Prosecutors' request to exclude defense expert from certain CBI tests: The sides agreed a defense expert can be present for all procedures that destroy small samples of evidence. - Prosecutors' request to measure Bryant's hand span: The sides agreed to allow investigators to measure Bryant's hands at some point today. - Resource Center of Eagle County's request to throw out a defense subpoena for its records: An attorney for the rape-crisis center asked the judge to reconsider his decision to hold a hearing on whether one sentence of notes taken by a center employee after a police interview of the alleged victim should be kept secret. The judge said he would rule later. - Requests to throw out defense subpoenas for certain medical records: The records, which had been provided to an Eagle County judge by a Greeley hospital, will be returned to the hospital until the trial judge decides whether the alleged victim has waived her medical privacy rights. The sides also agreed that any University of Northern Colorado campus police records included in the package will be provided to the defense and prosecution. - Request from a Glenwood Springs hospital for both sides to destroy medical records inadvertently turned over: Prosecutors said they destroyed all copies of the records they received; attorney Hal Haddon said he would destroy all copies the defense received. |