Kobe on Trial

Oh my. Kobe was formally charged today with a class 3 felony sexual assault, which apparently carries with it a life sentence. This is no longer a matter that I feel I can joke around about. It was all fun and games for a while, but joking about a man's life isn't that funny. Life in prison would not be kind to Kobe, not as pretty as he is. He would ensure that the prison team won the basketball league every year but that is not the point. I am quite shocked by the severity of the charges. Now I believe it is most likely a overzealous charge and would be lowered, but how do you go lower form life in prison? 20 years? might as well be Kobe's life, and time spent in prison and he can kiss off ALL future endorsement deals and I am pretty sure a conviction would cancel out most if not all of his current deals for failing to live up to the image he sold. This might be the case with just the charges. We will see on that. Mean while for more about this you can look here:

http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2003/0718/1582732.html

and here:

http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2003/0718/1582691.html