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Actually, the defense is trying to find out why her panties had semen from a different man on them when she went to the police. The defense wants to show that the injuries to her genitals was there before Kobe banged her.
If she had sex with men right before Kobe then there's reasonable doubt about whether the injuries are from him.
If she had sex with men right after Kobe (which some witness is supposed to have alleged), then she is obviously not suffering from typical rape trauma and this could call her credibility into question.
Basically, this is a "his word vs hers" case, so the the defense wants to show that 1) The injuries could have come from someone other than Kobe, and 2) That if Kobe raped her, she didn't act like it.
It remains to be seen if the defense can demonstrate reasonable doubt or not, but the judge decided to have a closed session to determine what evidence about the girl's sex life he'd let the jury listen to -- obviously if she was a total whore 5 years ago, that's not material to whether she was raped in this specific case or not.
But, if she had sex with 3 men the night after Kobe supposedly raped her, well that might undermine her story a little.
So, as long as they're not smearing her unfairly, I don't have a problem with it. Remember, the jury is only going to hear evidence about her sex life that the judge thinks is relevant to this specific case.
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