The short version: Kobe is now an admitted rapist who is being allowed to take a free pass. He'll end up paying off the victim in order to avoid even more negative publicity from a civil trial. He'll eventually serve his real sentence in hell.
The longer version:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=1872740
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"Kobe was facing life in prison for a crime he did not commit," they [Kobe's slime dog lawyers] told Gray. "The accuser insisted on that statement as the price for his freedom. The statement doesn't change the facts: Kobe is innocent and now he is free."
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This is disgustingly arrogant at a minimum and appears to violate the basic terms of the sweetheart deal that was given to yet another criminal who walks because of his celebrity status. This is the oral equivalent of crossing one's fingers behind one's back when making a promise or swearing to something. I hope she takes him for as much as possible in her civil suit. I would find it more satisfying, though, if she were able to have his !$^%%$ smug attitude forever wiped away. What a worthless P.O.S.