In a letter to the Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr

The large media circus took position in the vicinity of the Court of Manhattan. Right as i, Anne Sinclair, faithful to the forefront, remained as unflappable as a sphinx. Three weeks after his arrest for "sexual assault and attempted rape", Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former Director General of the international monetary Fund (IMF), is yesterday appeared before Michael shells, the same judge who had ordered his release on bail on 20 May. As his lawyers had announced to him, he pleaded not guilty to his formal indictment on 7 counts including 4 "first degree". The date of the next hearing, where the first parts of the charge, will be communicated was set at July 18. The main surprise came from the alleged victim with the restructuring of the defence team now entrusted to counsel Ken Thompson and his brother Douglas Wigdor.

"The campaign to discredit the victim is unworthy." "The theory of the plot to bring down a man powerful is simply false", said Ken Thompson, the outcome of the hearing, excluding any "arrangement" between the alleged victim and aggressor. It also announced its intention to seek and to call other potential victims of the ex-patron of the IMF, including Tristane Banon, to corroborate the position of the previous. Most importantly, he confirmed the intention of the victim, "traumatized", to testify against her aggressor, contrary to the hypothesis of an arrangement where she relinquished to testify before the tribunal. For their part, the lawyers of DSK, Benjamin Brafman and William Taylor III, were limited to emphasize that their client had decided to "plead not guilty, which in itself is an eloquent statement."

As DSK has chosen to continue to plead not guilty, now opens a real part of ping-pong between the prosecution and the defence. In a letter to the Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. date of May 25, DSK lawyers have already strongly protested "continuous leakage" in the media, fueled by the New York Police Department (NYPD), indicating possession of elements that could seriously "undermine the credibility" of the alleged victim. The Office of the Prosecutor immediately responded that in the event that the defence would have of such elements, it should immediately "to put on the record".

In recent days, the Manhattan attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr., the son of former Secretary of State of Jimmy Carter, has strengthened its team with the arrival of 2 seasoned Deputy Prosecutors: Joan-Illuzzi-Orbon and Ann Prunty, equipped with a solid experience in cases of sexual crimes.

For his part, defence fixed objective to the acquittal of the accused by all means The experts particularly cite the precedent of the nephew of JFK, William Kennedy Smith, who obtained his acquittal in a case of rape in 1991, or the football player O.J. Simpson, acquitted of the murder of his ex-wife and her friend in 1995, the absence of evidence. More recently, on May 26, Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. suffered a devastating setback with the acquittal of 2 the NYPD police officers accused of rape, in the absence of DNA evidence.

Despite the willingness displayed by the defence continue to plead not guilty, some experts remain convinced that it eventually, sooner or later, by resorting to a "plea bargain" (agreement negotiated with the Attorney) to negotiate a reduction in sentence.