From: Ed Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:28 PM To: Epstein, Jeff Subject: Semen: Why is this important Hi Jeff I asked a law professor friend about importance of semen stains. He =s very smart. Hias answer below DSK's defense will be : 1) Diallo is a prostitute and consensually fellated him, and got pissed =ff when there was no money there. DSK will assert that he thought somebody else was paying for it, as he is a man who goes through life having other people pick up the bill, just as the hotel was comping =im, essentially, for the suite. If DSK can identify the other people who stayed in the suite, and ejeculated there, particularly those whose semen is mixed with saliva, =e can ask them whether their encounters were with prostitutes provided by =he hotel, evidence that will be relevant in proving that, at very =east, DSK's testimony that this hotel provides prostitutes to favored =ustomers is credible. Then DSK's defense will be that, even if Diallo wasn't a prostitute, =or if the jury isn't persuaded by the evidence that she was) he DSK did =ot "forcibly compel" he to fellate him. He simply assumed that she was willing, because he thought she was a pro. ; and she never said no, perhaps because she thought, as an immigrant, that this was something =he was required to do to keep her job. If he used no force, and she never said or implied no, he certainly did not do a crime, and probably not a =ort either. 2) realistically, the hotel will do all in its power to keep its high level guests from being subpoenaed to provide DNA to see whether the =perm is on the wall or rug, or even to have the full list of registrants =ver the past X number of years revealed so that lawyers can interview them =ne by one. Publicity about the fact that hotel rooms are coated in sperm isn't good for the hotel brand. Will the hotel not, then, ante up some money as part of a settlement with Diallo? I'd advise them to. Here is the story from prosecutor's report.