@hawkeye10,
Quote:this case not not in the least bit ordinary. Usually both the cops and the DA do a bit more work before going after people....usually bail is not set so high, usually house arrest is not allowed....usually DA's will not completely drop a case that they can not make
All of that is untrue--you just are unfamiliar with NYC law enforcement and how other very high profile cases, or cases with a foreign national, have been handled. Nothing about this one was particularly out of the ordinary, except the ridiculously over-the-top international media coverage.
The week after DSK was arrested, an Egyptian banker was arrested for groping another maid in another hotel, and, had it not been for DSK, that one would have probably gone completely unnoticed by the public and unreported by the media--and it was resolved very quickly, with a guilty plea, which I believe was to a lessor charge.
For you this case was out of the ordinary, for those with a more objective perspective, it was just another he said/she said sexual assault case in a very big city D.A.'s office, which handles these sorts of cases all the time, which handles high profile cases all the time, and which routinely drops charges they feel they cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt at trial. Other than the intense media scrutiny, and the obscene amounts of money spent on DSK's behalf, this one was business as usual--he was just another perp.