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Strauss-Kahn at court to see if freedom awaits

The Columbian
Published: August 21, 2011, 5:00pm

NEW YORK (AP) — Dominique Strauss-Kahn has arrived at a Manhattan courthouse where the sexual assault case against him is likely to be dismissed.

The former International Monetary Fund leader and his wife arrived Tuesday in a six-car motorcade with black sport utility vehicles and a police escort.

A judge has already dismissed a request for a special prosecutor, paving the way for the case to be dropped.

Prosecutors on Monday filed court papers requesting the case be dropped, saying they could not ask a jury to believe the hotel maid’s story when they do not find her to be a credible witness.

The 33-year-old West African maid claimed Strauss-Kahn attacked her and sexually assaulted her in his luxury suite May 14.

Prosecutors argued DNA evidence they said showed sexual contact but not necessarily a forced encounter and discussed why they saw medical findings as inconclusive.

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