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[-said]: No wonder the court believes her. She didn't come alone. She came with troops of journalists. They accompanied her,

jpost 10-NOV-11

[-said]: They would have believed her if she said the rape occurred on Venus,

news 10-NOV-11

[-said]: The complainant, and I say this despite the ruling, lied on multiple occasions.

jpost 10-NOV-11

[-said]: We have proven unequivocally that at least one of the rapes could not have occurred according to her story,

jpost 10-NOV-11

[ said]: The trust of an enlightened public understands that a significant weight should be given to rehabilitation and that punishment without rehabilitation is brutal, and is only coercion,

jpost 31-AUG-11

[-told]: We need to view Alef’s behavior as evidence that a rape didn’t take place,

jpost 12-AUG-11

[ said]: According to Alef’s version, she was already in the room when these calls took place,

jpost 12-AUG-11

[-added that had]: What did [Alef] have to talk about in those calls unless there was an intimate relationship? Does this not indicate that there was a relationship above and beyond a work relationship?

jpost 12-AUG-11

[-said]: There is another version of the relationship, and he is not telling the truth,

yediotaharonot 10-AUG-11

[ asked]: Would a senior minister really invite his employee to come work in a hotel lobby, and would she really accept that?

jpost 07-AUG-11

[-said]: Even if he didn’t tell the truth, he has an alibi,

jpost 07-AUG-11

[-added that]: There are several different possibilities regarding this: there is the possibility that nothing happened, that there was no sexual intercourse, no obscene acts, nothing. The second possibility is that there was an intimate relationship that led to sexual relations; and the third possibility is that there was an intimate relationship that led to full sexual intercourse.

jpost 07-AUG-11

[-told]: calm down, you'll enjoy it.

jpost 07-AUG-11

[-told]: The options facing the court are thus: determine that the evidence proves beyond all reasonable doubt that all of the elements of the crime of rape took place - in other words, that there was full sexual intercourse, without consent and with the use of force,

jpost 07-AUG-11

[argued that:]: it is possible that there was no relationship whatsoever between Katsav and A., it is possible that they had an intimate relationship that did not necessarily include sexual relations and it is possible that they had an intimate relationship that included sexual congress.

ynetnews 07-AUG-11

[-told]: calm down, you’ll enjoy it.

jpost 07-AUG-11

[said that:]: despite having paid his debt to society, my client in still hounded by the media and the public, who refer to him as the

yediotaharonot 14-JUL-11

[-said]: Harassing a witness is a foggy term,

jpost 12-JUL-11

[-argued]: I personally do not like symbols and ceremonies, but would hate to think that the president of the state would enter prison - with all whole symbolism of the event - and undergo the entire humiliation ceremony, only to be acquitted later on. Such a possibility exists,

jpost 11-MAY-11

[ said]: The appellant entered the courtroom with the mark of a serial rapist on his forehead, like the mark of Cain,[*]a mark that the judges were unable to ignore.

jpost 03-MAY-11

[-said]: We believe she was pressured into changing her story.

jpost 12-APR-11

[-said]: I have never seen such a thing. It makes me wonder if her primary motivation for lodging the complaint was financial,

jpost 12-APR-11

[-said]: During her testimony the witness made statements that we consider to be lies. The court chose to interpret them as memory lapses, but the fact is that the experiences she spoke of became more severe from one investigation to another,

jpost 12-APR-11

[-said]: We will try to present the acts, not as those of someone who intended to undermine the foundations of the state, but as a harmless folly,

jpost 07-FEB-11