Strauss-Kahn seeks dismissal of civil suit by maid

[alp227]

Source: Reuters

NEW YORK, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn asked a judge on Monday to dismiss a civil suit filed by a hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault, saying he was immune from such a suit under international law when it was filed.

His lawyers filed a motion to dismiss the suit in a New York state court in the Bronx on Monday.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/26/strausskahn-idUSS1E78P1BI20110926

[SoapBox]

1. This clown is a dirty skeeze bag...

and can simply buy his way out of anything.

[COLGATE4]

2. No, he's a person who was falsely accused and whose charges

were thrown out by the NY D.A. and the court.

[SoapBox]

5. There have been multiple women, around the world that have talked about his skeeze...

But I suppose you will just call them all liars.

[cstanleytech]

19. There are also mutiple people who swear obama wasnt born in the US

are you calling them liars? (personally I call them crazy nutjobs but thats just me)

[KoKo]

13. ROFLMAO!

:rofl: You bought the SPIN did you? :eyes:

[cstanleytech]

20. What spin? The case was dismissed wasnt it?

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

27. IRONYYYYY

You're the one downthread lamenting that there no longer exists a presumption of innocence on DU, and here you are defending the lying "victim".

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

3. As opposed to a maid who lied on her asylum forms to get into

this country and said she was going after DSK for the money?

Gotcha.

Gotta love the lying lady.

[SoapBox]

4. Where did the "DNA" come from?

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

25. Ever heard of consensual sex?

I guess when you have consensual sex with someone that it's impossible to leave DNA behind?

[Zoeisright]

6. That's right, blame the victim(S).

That's what uneducated people do.

Gotcha.

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

28. How exactly is she a victim?

She lied about rape on her asylum app to get into the country and she was caught on tape saying she was going to take DSK's money.

[joshcryer]

22. Just so you know, she admitted to that, they never could've proved it.

She came from a hot zone which is why she got the asylum. It was neither provable or disprovable, but she admitted to it.

[Downwinder]

7. So, he didn't do it, but if he did do it he is above the law.

IF DSK didn't do it, why does he need immunity? No trust in the American legal system?.

[SoapBox]

8. "why does he need immunity?" Exactly!

If he is innocent....why the immunity?????

Speaks volumes!

[lazarus]

9. never go before a jury

in a civil case, the only requirement is "a preponderance of evidence", which is basically 50.1% guilty. I'd be pulling every trick in the book to get a case against me dismissed no matter how innocent I was.

[former9thward]

10. Why would he trust the American legal system after what he has gone through?

He would still be rotting in jail if he was an ordinary citizen because an ordinary citizen who was innocent could not afford the investigators an lawyers than are needed when you are framed. He would have to be certifiably insane to trust the legal system in a civil trial. In Europe civil actions are decided by judges. Here they are decided by juries and it is a crap-shoot on what the verdict might be.

[KoKo]

14. Did you ever wonder what the "maid" went through? I think not...

However...if you think about it..you might find a reason to think of how you would feel if you were in her shoes..against one of the most Powerful People in the World.


Ever think about that? Do you? :shrug:

[former9thward]

15. Most people had never heard of DSK so I don't think he was one

"of the most Powerful People in the World". But even so the service woman had a long history of lying. She lied to get in this country and she told a story to the prosecutors which turned out be lies. She used her bank out as a laundry for drug funds. DSK did not make her do any of these things. I have no sympathy for someone who tried to manipulate our legal system for her financial profit.

[NOMOREDRUGWAR]

26. I'd think I'm a stupid prick

who shouldn't have lied.

[joshcryer]

23. So wait, you say the American legal system is untrustworthy because a wealthy person gets off?

Are you sure you're saying what I think you're saying? That wealthy people represent the pinnacle of just law?

Fact is, if there's DNA, you go to fucking jail if a woman claims rape. Fact is, women have an impossible time running a rape trial and in the end cases get dropped. I have no problem with the former part of this, but the latter part is bullshit, with women being considered liars if they call rape. Yes some do lie, but I do not believe the liars represent the vast majority of cases.

I guess the Kobe Bryant case is "just law" because he was filthy rich he could do anything he wanted.

[former9thward]

24. To compare one case with another is fatal in the legal system.

Everything defends on specific evidence and facts. DNA means nothing if sex is consental. A wealthy person has the resources to meet the vast resources of the state. An average person does not. That is a fact whether you want to admit it or not.

[Dover]

11. Yeah, wrecking his political leftist ambitions was punishment enough.

Time to let him off the hook.

Viva la Sarkozy's France and US influence over the IMF!

[KoKo]

12. You Betcha...Strauss-Kahn said... "She asked for it...and I gave it to her."

:puke: DISMISSED...(my Rich Wife bought me off...she likes my "non-sex" and that's why I go out and do these things I do... "To get My Release."

:puke:

[cosmicone]

16. There is no presumption of innocence on DU

... and we are supposed to be progressives and not a lynch mob.

[KoKo]

17. Agree...it's become very strange here in the last years..Almost like a

twilight zone...in the way things have changed from the first years from "Stolen Election 2000 through Kerry Demise.

It's all changed... No more activism was the first shoe to drop.

[Downwinder]

18. If DSK is Innocent, what was the moral lapse that he proclaimed

in his address on French TV?

[cosmicone]

21. Maybe it was consensual? n/t

[COLGATE4]

29. Oh, I don't know - maybe getting a B.J, from an old, tired maid????