Sex Crimes Prosecutor Charged With Rape (UPDATED)
July 27, 2009
Bizarre is an overused word. This is a bizarre story:
As Michael Gressett waited for a jury verdict in a molestation trial, the Contra Costa County sex crimes prosecutor had what he called a "nooner," bringing a fellow prosecutor to his Martinez home for intercourse....
Gressett's 30-year-old accuser, a prosecutor from another unit, says she wanted to sleep with him and undressed before objecting to the type of sex he initiated. He pressed on, she told police, sodomizing her, holding a gun to her head, handcuffing her and jamming ice into her before making threats.
The sex crimes unit of the district attorney's office, she recalled, was a highly sexualized place where she, Gressett and others bantered about rough sex and directed gallows humor toward the crime victims they represented.
Yep; bizarre fits.
UPDATE: The case seemed off. It smelled like a false accusation. Someone left this telling comment to the article. While not authenticated, the comment sounds true:
The accuser was not hired as a permanent employee & the allegations only were raised formally when it became apparent she was not getting hired. This is a women who admitted that her boyfriend (another DA) would role play a rape scenario, where he (not the accused) would climb into her window and ultimately have sex. These are facts. not hyperbole. This is a women many deputy DA's she wanted to have sex with the accuser 3 days prior to their 1st weekend lunch date. The DA literally did not take any affirmative action against the accused for more than 5 months. This occurred only after the accuser ranked last on the hiring list and was not hired. The accuser has a drug & psych history, been arrested for biting a cop. READ THE COURT FILE- this case is the biggest miscarriage of justice and the community should be outraged. You may not agree with the edgy sex-but no one was sexually assaulted. The accused has tremendous support from his colleagues and legal community.