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… phone. Instead, she willingly came out of the bathroom, passed a door leading to the outside corridor and went back to Tyson's bedroom, where they had sex on the bed. According to Washington's own testimony, Tyson asked her, during their sexual encounter, whether she wanted to...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 court cross examination by Tyson's trial lawyer, the issue of the contingency fee agreement was explicitly raised. Yet, the prosecutor did everything in his power to keep the truth from coming out. He arranged for the Washington family to take the courtroom pas...

…ng she said. I would sign an affidavit that if we had known about the money, I couldn't have voted to convict him. Mike Tyson deserves a new trial." In light of the numerous errors made by Judge Gifford at the trial, this should have been the easiest appeal I ever argued. The la...

…told him “she had lost her virginity.” In order to avoid his fury once again, this time for having consensual sex with Tyson, she apparently decided to cry rape once again. At first, she said that he had "tried" to rape her. She initially denied having sex with Tyson. Then she s...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Was Mike Tyson the victim of the changing politics of rape? The first time I met Mike Tyson was the night before he was to be sentenced and sent to prison. Mike was deciding whether to accept Don King’s recommendation that he hire me as his appellate lawyer. H...

…in Washington's hometown put it: "America thought this girl was a blushing, virginal type." (Under the rape shield law, Tyson’s lawyer could not counter this portrayal. The prosecution thus used the rape shield law as a sword to present a one-sidedly false picture of the alleged...

…eading Indiana lawyer. On the basis of our investigation and the new evidence we uncovered, I was convinced that Mike Tyson did not intend to rape Desiree Washington, and that he got a bum rap. Several of the jurors agreed with me after learning of some of the new evidence. On...

…s on the issue of consent. By any objective standard, the case against DSK was far stronger than the case against Mike Tyson, since there was far more corroborative evidence in the former than in the latter. Moreover, Tyson’s alleged victim was caught in a series of lies that d...

he would have quickly been acquitted. But this was Indiana. They had a trophy in Tyson. And they had a trial judge determined to prevent a new trial that would have embarrassed her and freed Tyson. The conviction was eventually affirmed on a two to two tie vote by the Indiana...

…spectives of several participants. In some rape cases, a similar Rashomon perspective is sometimes at work. In the Mike Tyson case, for example, it is possible (though unlikely in my view) that Desiree Washington did not intend to consent to sex but that Mike Tyson reasonably bel...

in which I served as his appellate lawyer. Tyson was convicted of

Mike Tyson is not held accountable for his behavior

…nd Scientists After Trump’s Proposed “Anti-Science” Budget Cuts ° ° The famous American Astrophysicist, Neil deGrasse Tyson, once said, “The good thing about science is that it’s true, whether or not you believe in it.” Neil deGrasse Tyson’s quote from The Colbert Report dist...

in which I served as his appellate lawyer. Tyson was convicted of raping Desiree Washington

I was convinced that Mike Tyson did not intend to rape Desiree Washington