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Wide of Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, and her attorney, Kenneth Thompson, walking out of building2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kenneth Thompson, Nafissatou Diallo''s attorney:\"Manhattan...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e22 August 2011 - New York City \u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, and her attorney, Kenneth Thompson, walking out of building\u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Kenneth Thompson, Nafissatou Diallo''s attorney:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has denied the right of a woman to get justice in a rape case. He has not only turned his back on this innocent victim, but he has also turned his back on the forensic, medical and other physical evidence in this case. If the Manhattan District Attorney, who is elected to protect our mothers, our daughters, our sisters, our wives and our loved ones, is not going to stand up for them when they''re raped or sexually assaulted, who will?\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - recent, New York City\u003cbr/\u003e3. Pan of Strauss-Kahn walking with wife out of court\u003cbr/\u003e22 August 2011 - New York City \u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH): Jim Cohen, criminal law professor, Fordham University: \u003cbr/\u003e\"He will be allowed to leave the country with a civil case still pending and he fails to return really at his own peril. In the sense that if he fails to return it''s possible that default judgement could be entered against him.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFILE - recent, New York City\u003cbr/\u003e5. Pan of Strauss-Kahn walking with wife out of court\u003cbr/\u003e22 August 2011 - New York City \u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (ENGLISH): Jim Cohen, criminal law professor, Fordham University: \u003cbr/\u003e\"I don''t think it leaves a bad mark. The prosecutor did precisely what the prosecutor is supposed to do: analyse a case and process forward with an indictment and a trial or a guilty plea, if that''s warranted, and the reverse, if it''s not warranted. The problem isn''t with Vance''s office in particular, the problem is that our system basically requires that you arrest first on what appears to be a legitimate complaint and you ask questions later. Had the prosecutor reacted differently in this case, that is; failed to exercise an arrest or immediately released him on bail they would have been criticised for catering to the rich and powerful.\"\u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide exterior of the townhouse where Strauss-Kahn has been living \u003cbr/\u003eNew York City prosecutors filed court papers on Monday recommending dismissal of sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of attacking a hotel maid in May in a globally sensational case that eventually dissolved amid questions about the woman''s credibility.\u003cbr/\u003eThe accuser, Nafissatou Diallo, and her attorney, Kenneth Thompson, met briefly with representatives of the Manhattan district attorney''s office to discuss the decision not to proceed with the prosecution.\u003cbr/\u003eThompson didn''t say what had happened inside or reveal what his client was told, but he recited a short statement condemning prosecutors for their handling of the case.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has denied the right of a woman to get justice in a rape case,\" he said. \u003cbr/\u003e\"He has not only turned his back on this innocent victim. But he has also turned his back on the forensic, medical and other physical evidence in this case.\"\u003cbr/\u003eA person familiar with the case earlier told The Associated Press that prosecutors had concerns about Diallo''s credibility and insufficient evidence of forced sexual encounter. \u003cbr/\u003eThe person spoke on the condition of anonymity.\u003cbr/\u003eDiallo is also suing Strauss-Kahn, seeking to make him pay financially if not with his freedom, a move that the diplomat''s lawyers said also eroded her credibility.\u003cbr/\u003eProsecutors filed paperwork with the court Monday recommending that the charges be dismissed. \u003cbr/\u003eThe document was not immediately made available to the public, so the district attorney''s reasons for asking for the dismissal were not known.\u003cbr/\u003eStrauss-Kahn is scheduled to go before a judge Tuesday. \u003cbr/\u003eHis lawyers, William Taylor and Benjamin Brafman, issued a statement saying that he and his family were grateful for the decision.\u003cbr/\u003eThe case captured international attention as a seeming cauldron of sex, violence, power and politics: A promising French presidential contender, known in his homeland as \"the Great Seducer,\" accused of a brutal and contemptuous attack on an African immigrant who had come to clean his plush suite at the Sofitel hotel.\u003cbr/\u003eThe stakes were high for Strauss-Kahn, who resigned his IMF post, spent nearly a week behind bars and then spent possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for house arrest, as well for Vance, who was handling the biggest case he has had during his 18 months in office.\u003cbr/\u003eStrauss-Kahn, 62, was arrested after Diallo, 32, said he chased her down and forced her to perform oral sex. \u003cbr/\u003eStrauss-Kahn denied the allegations, and his lawyers have said anything that happened wasn''t forced.\u003cbr/\u003eLike many sexual assault cases, in which the accused and accuser are often the only eyewitnesses, the Strauss-Kahn case has hinged heavily on the woman''s believability.\u003cbr/\u003eEarly on, prosecutors stressed that Diallo had provided \"a compelling and unwavering story\" replete with \"very powerful details\" and buttressed by forensic evidence; his semen was found on her uniform. \u003cbr/\u003eThe police commissioner said seasoned detectives had found her credible.\u003cbr/\u003eBut then prosecutors said on 1 July they''d found the maid had told them a series of troubling falsehoods, including a persuasive but phoney account of having been gang-raped in her native Guinea. \u003cbr/\u003eShe said she was echoing a story she''d told to enhance her 2003 application for political asylum. \u003cbr/\u003eShe told interviewers she was raped in her homeland under other circumstances and embellished it to get herself and her 15-year-old daughter a chance at a better life in the U.S.\u003cbr/\u003eShe also wasn''t consistent about what she did after her encounter with Strauss-Kahn, telling a grand jury she had hovered in a hallway when she actually returned to his and another room before consulting her boss, prosecutors said. \u003cbr/\u003eShe said the alleged discrepancy was a misunderstanding.\u003cbr/\u003eShe also alluded to Strauss-Kahn''s wealth in a recorded phone conversation with a jailed friend, and her bank account had been a repository for tens of thousands of dollars she couldn''t explain, a law enforcement official has said.\u003cbr/\u003eShe said a jailed man had used the bank account without telling her. \u003cbr/\u003eAs for the phone call, her lawyer, Kenneth Thompson, said she mentioned Strauss-Kahn''s money only to say that her alleged attacker was influential.\u003cbr/\u003eShe sued Strauss-Kahn Aug. 8, seeking unspecified damages and promising to air other allegations that Strauss-Kahn accosted and attacked women in other locales.\u003cbr/\u003eHis lawyers called her suit a claim without merit that proved she was out for 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