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| Prosecutors could still pursue case |
| Prosecutors could still pursue case against Strauss-Kahn
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 2-July-2011
1:36:23 AM |
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The rapidly dissolving case against former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn faces challenges fairly common in sexual assault prosecutions, namely a less-than-perfect accuser.
So while Manhattan prosecutors face a more difficult task now that the accuser has been found to have lied on several occasions including about what happened immediately after the purported attack, it is too soon to consider the case closed.
This would not be the first case where an important prosecution witness turned out not to be the angel or pure victim that the prosecution initially thought. Nor would it be the first case a prosecution's office took a case to trial where a witness had real credibility issues, Columbia Law School Professor Daniel Richman said.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance admitted a setback with revelations about the accuser's past.
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