The DNA evidence from the prosecution's own laboratory could be introduced in court as early as Thursday when the Los Angeles Laker will be back in an Eagle, Colorado, courtroom for a pretrial hearing, the cable TV report said.
Bryant's lawyer, Pamela Mackey, laid a bombshell in a prior pretrial hearing when she suggested the 19-year-old woman had sex within hours after she said she was raped.
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According to the MSNBC report, fresh sperm and semen samples were found inside the woman's body from samples given during a rape examination and that such evidence would prove she had sex within hours after the incident with Bryant.
Krista Flannigan, a spokeswoman for Eagle County prosecutor Mark Hurlbert, said the office could not comment on the report. A gag order is in place. The woman's attorney also did not return a telephone call.
The 25-year-old Bryant, who has pleaded not guilty to raping the woman, has said the two had consensual sex.
If the woman did have consensual sex soon after she said she was raped by Bryant, then she also would have lied to police who were investigating the case.
Prosecutors have said that DNA from someone other than Bryant was found on the underwear the woman wore when she went to the hospital and was the result of mistakenly putting on soiled underwear that had DNA from an earlier sexual episode.
However, the DNA sample taken from her body could refute that line of thinking.
