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Prosecutors file papers asking that Strauss-Kahn charges be dropped

Filings from the Manhattan district attorney says he no longer believes a viable case can be brought against the former IMF head.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves New York State Supreme court with his wife Anne Sinclair in July. At least some of the charges against him are expected to be dropped tomorrow.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn leaves New York State Supreme court with his wife Anne Sinclair in July. At least some of the charges against him are expected to be dropped tomorrow.
Image: David Karp/AP

NEW YORK PROSECUTORS have filed papers recommending that all charges in the sex assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn be dropped.

A published edition of the prosecutors’ motion outlined that the case would rely solely on the evidence of Nafissatou Diallo, the chambermaid at the centre of the allegations against the former IMF managing director.

While “the physical, specific, and other evidence establishes that the defendant engaged in a hurried sexual encounter with the complainant,” the filing said, “it does not independently establish her claim of a forcible, nonconsensual encounter.”

It added that while Diallo was considered reliable at the time the complaint had been filed, later investigations “severely undermined her reliability as a witness in this case.”

Diallo and her lawyer met briefly with prosecutors earlier today. It had been widely expected that prosecutors would announce plans to reduce or drop the charges.

Earlier: US prosecutors expected to drop Strauss-Kahn case tomorrow – report >

Previously: Strauss-Kahn charges could be dropped ‘by Tuesday’

Additional reporting by AP

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  • Well the whole trial was a farse to begin with.. The media hijacked it before there was even any evidence or verdict I believe that he was innocent of rape.. Khans a man who made allot of high ranking enemy’s in France… And when sarcozy was able to put christen laggard in his place, it would seem far to convenient.. Funny how IMF leaders tend to be French after such a "scandal"

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  • I feel compelled to also add that I was a victim of rape. I was treated as a liar and a tart by the authorities. They did nothing to try to find him when he ran and to this day I do not know where he is or if he has raped again. I did not get the opportunity to take my attacker to court and see him jailed.
    It is disgusting if these women are lying and disgusting also if they are telling the truth, that being powerful and rich can get you off the hook. It makes me feel sick to my stomach.

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    • i don’t know if dsk is guilty or not. but what makes my sick is this French bird jumping on the band wagon . trying to say she was raped by dsk. i don’t believe her. she claims it was very bad and she told friends. well if she was raped . which. she wasn’t. and if she told her friends which. she did not. she would have been advised to go to the police . not trying to look for attention .

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  • It makes it harder for victims of rape to come forward if they are truly innocent victims. I do not know for absolute sure that the women in these cases were telling the truth, if they were its very sad that justice was not done.

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    • Only a matter of time before this comment was posted. “If” is the keyword here AnnMarie, like the old legal maxim “better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail”. Change “men” to “persons” if you feel I’m being misogynistic and therefore promoting rape. Innocent until proven guilty nonetheless…

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  • Looks like money talks, get yourself a good barrister and you’ll get away with almost anything.

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  • Anne Marie if i was your friend and dsk or any man brutally raped you like the French woman claimed. i would go to the police for you. if it didn’t happen i would not go . so that’s why i think she is a liar and an attention seeker.

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  • @The Baxter: Wow, you should give all your obviously concrete evidence to the authorities immediately so they could dismiss this case and all the absolute assholes who were trying to judge even before a trial…..

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  • so its one liar down for dsk and on to the next liar in France .

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  • @The Baxter
    How do you know for absolute these women were treated fairly?
    You are entitled to say you do not believe the ”french bird”. Claiming to be a victim of rape is not something a woman or man would confess to lightly. Your reputation is at stake especially if in the glare of the media. There is a sense of shame attached to being a victim and times have not moved on much, sadly,so it is confusing and frightening when you go forward to speak of this taboo subject. It is also something you have to live with, especially if you do not get justice.

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  • Thumbs down, who are you and why?

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  • @michaeld.lynch sure isn’t it obvious that if you do not tell your friends that it never happened?!

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