Comments on: KOBE WALKS, TALKS http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/ E AHO LA'ULA Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:34:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Harry http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/#comment-1121 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/#comment-1121 I see a huge cash settlement coming in the civil case. Which will make it that much harder for the victim in the next celebrity rape case. I see a huge cash settlement coming in the civil case. Which will make it that much harder for the victim in the next celebrity rape case.

]]> by: Zygote http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/#comment-1122 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/#comment-1122 Yeah, my first thought when I heard this was, "Man, talk about just handing her victory in the civil case." Yeah, my first thought when I heard this was, “Man, talk about just handing her victory in the civil case.”

]]> by: dw http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/#comment-1123 Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000 http://markhasty.com/archives/2004/09/01/kobe-walks-talks/#comment-1123 I think his attorneys were thinking that they will have a huge pot of money to throw at a civil suit, and that it doesn't matter what Kobe's statements (and signed apologies) were, they can get it all quashed. There will be a settlement before this ever goes to trial. The blame in this case falls at the feet of Colorado's TABOR Amendment (aka Amendment 1), which hogties the state's ability to raise taxes. As a result, the university system has the lowest rate of state support of any state system in the US, state agencies are devoid of cash, and most importantly to the Kobe case, there's no money to keep the state court system running at anything close to effectively. That gave the Kobe team a massive opening to take to task the courts and prosecution for sloppy work. It wasn't that they were sloppy, it's that they have no money to hire even a base level of clerks to keep these base errors from happening. Just a reminder of the long term price of voter-approved across-the-board tax cuts. I think his attorneys were thinking that they will have a huge pot of money to throw at a civil suit, and that it doesn’t matter what Kobe’s statements (and signed apologies) were, they can get it all quashed. There will be a settlement before this ever goes to trial.

The blame in this case falls at the feet of Colorado’s TABOR Amendment (aka Amendment 1), which hogties the state’s ability to raise taxes. As a result, the university system has the lowest rate of state support of any state system in the US, state agencies are devoid of cash, and most importantly to the Kobe case, there’s no money to keep the state court system running at anything close to effectively. That gave the Kobe team a massive opening to take to task the courts and prosecution for sloppy work. It wasn’t that they were sloppy, it’s that they have no money to hire even a base level of clerks to keep these base errors from happening.

Just a reminder of the long term price of voter-approved across-the-board tax cuts.

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