He's also married, respected by all who know him, and has never been charged or accused of such an assault before.

Every person interviewed on this subject, friends, family, teammates, coaches, former coaches/teammates, fans, they all expressed nothing less than utter shock at this.

And say what you want about his agent/lawyer(it's their job to defend him by any means necessary), the police have said on multiple occasions that Kobe has been extremely cooperative throughout the case.

So, based on all these facts, I'm actually going to be an optimist and consider him innocent until proven guilty.