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Bryant's Accuser Not Returning To UNC; Prosecutor Opposes Courtroom Cameras

19-Year-Old Woman Would Be Sophomore

POSTED: 8:41 am MDT August 26, 2003
UPDATED: 7:01 pm MDT August 26, 2003

The 19-year-old woman who has accused Kobe Bryant of rape will not return to the University of Northern Colorado for her sophomore year, according to a report published in the Rocky Mountain News.

A university spokeswoman in Greeley said that as of Tuesday, the second day of school, the young woman was not enrolled at UNC. UNC spokeswoman Gloria Reynolds also said she does not know why the woman didn't return to school.

The Eagle woman's freshman year at UNC was interrupted Feb. 25 when she was rushed to a hospital by ambulance.

Campus police chief Terry Urista said the woman "was a danger to herself," but he refused to characterize the episode as a suicide attempt.

Bryant, 25, is charged with sexually assaulting the hotel worker on June 30 in Eagle County. Bryant said the sex was consensual.

The 19-year-old had stayed in the dorms last year, but went home to stay with her parents in Eagle for the summer. Fellow students at UNC said they weren't suprised that she did not return, given the extreme media attention she was receiving.

Prosecutor Opposes Courtroom Cameras

Prosecutors in the sexual assault case against Bryant said Tuesday that allowing cameras in the courtroom during the NBA star's Oct. 9 preliminary hearing would violate state court rules.

District Attorney Mark Hurlbert's filing said the rules allow courtroom cameras only during advisement hearings, arraignment hearings and trials.

Media organizations have asked Eagle County Judge Frederick Gannett to allow still and video cameras in the courtroom and in a hallway during the preliminary hearing.

"Suffice it to say that the media appears to want to take a carefully crafted (rule) and throw open the doors of the courtroom to the barrage of cameras," Hurlbert wrote. "At the preliminary hearing, many facts of the case will come out. The word-by-word reporting of those facts would greatly prejudice the victim and the defendant's right to fair trial."

Bryant's attorneys earlier raised similar objections.


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