Lawyers Move to Get Strauss-Kahn Out of Jail

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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/nyregion/strauss-kahns-accuser-testifying-before-grand-jury-lawyer-says.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

By WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM
Published: May 18, 2011

A lawyer for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, filed papers late Wednesday for a new bail application to get him out of Rikers Island, where he has been in protective custody and under a suicide watch.

Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s lawyers indicated he would be willing to be confined to a location in Manhattan and wear an electronic ankle bracelet to monitor his movements, and was prepared to post $1 million cash bail on charges he sexually assaulted a housekeeper at a Manhattan hotel.

“We believe this is a very, very defensible case,” Benjamin Brafman, a lawyer representing Mr. Strauss-Kahn, along with William W. Taylor of Washington, said at the arraignment on Monday. (Mr. Brafman was out of the country on Wednesday.) The papers were filed with Justice Michael J. Obus, the chief administrative judge for the criminal division of State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

Lawyers for Mr. Strauss-Kahn said Monday that they believed the forensic evidence would be inconsistent with a “forcible encounter.”

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1. Get this. The cell he is in is located in a "jail that was largely empty,

and Mr. Strauss Kahn was housed in his own wing, an official said". Who else gets that kind of consideration? :puke: