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ITS NOT ALL OVER READ THIS!The Associated Press contributed

Bryant's lawyers switch
focus to civil case

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Larry Pozner, a former president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said prosecutors and investigators made a fatal mistake by arresting Bryant and filing the charge before having full knowledge of the alleged victim's activities and the DNA test results.

"The defense kept pulling in dump trucks full of evidence until they (prosecutors) drowned in bad facts," he said. "Any time you see the defense ahead of the prosecution it can only be because the prosecution didn't want to know something.

"The prosecution said, 'Let's not do anything that could hurt us,"' Pozner said. "That's not a search for justice, it's a conviction-at-any-cost mentality. Sometimes the bravest thing you do is look at your police and say we don't have a case."

The case also was marred by a series of mistakes, many of them by people the woman's attorneys said she trusted the most.

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