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Originally posted by SpaceAce
There is also a problem with your logic. The only person who needs to know who the accuser is, is the accused. So what if her name never went into the papers or she remained anonymous from the public? She isn't accusing the public of anything, she's accusing Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant has the right to face his accuser and he will do so in a court of law. Everything else is a moot point. There is no reason for anyone besides the judge, jury, lawyers and Kobe to know who she is.
Unless the records are sealed for some reason, you can always go to the hall of records and find out who's who but there isn't some inalienable right to know everything about everything. If her identity were kept secret by the press it would simply be your job to go find out for yourself any information you felt you needed to know.
SpaceAce
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The United States does not allow secret trials, except in very special cases. You can wait in line and sit in on the Kobe trial if you want to. That's part of our judicial system. Even though you don't have a vested interest in the case, the public always has an interest in the way that their judicial system functions.
However, your point does not really disagree with my point. With an open judicial system and a free press, not to mention the internet, things are going to get published one way or another. The only alternative to that is for the government to make laws trying to force the judicial system to operate in secret. That would almost always be more damaging to a free society than having victims names made public.