Court Web Site Names Kobe Accuser

The name of Kobe Bryant's accuser was mistakenly posted on a state court Web site as part of a legal filing in the case.

A subpoena showing the 19-year-old woman's name and address was up for about an hour Tuesday before court staffers reposted it with her personal information blacked out.

State courts spokeswoman Karen Salaz said it was unclear how the error was made, but said court staffers are responsible for blacking out such information in public filings.

The alleged victim's identity has been previously disclosed on various Internet sites and on a radio talk show heard in 60 cities.

Syndicated talk radio host Tom Leykis said he revealed the name of the woman because he doesn't believe "you can have a fair trial where you know the name of one person and not the other."

Leykis, whose Los Angeles-based show deals with sexual topics, named the Colorado woman while on the air in July.

Bryan's accuser isn't the only one to feel the glare of publicity. In a separate incident, another 19-year-old woman was falsely identified on the Internet as Bryant's accuser. She attended the same high school as the alleged victim.

"Somebody put two and two together — these intersections of similarities — and came up with five," said Sienna LaRene, the woman's lawyer.

In another development in the case, the Vail police department balked at turning over records of 911 calls to Bryant's attorneys, saying it would violate a court order issued in the sexual assault case against the Los Angeles Lakers guard.

An attorney for the department asked Eagle County Judge Frederick Gannett to quash a subpoena served by Bryant's attorneys seeking the sealed records.

The judge did not immediately issue a ruling.

Earlier this month, a state judge rejected the Vail Daily newspaper's request to release the 911 records, saying the "intensely personal" material would subject the alleged victim to harassment and abuse. The woman had been treated earlier this year for mental health problems.

The Vail paper wanted any 911 records made from the accuser's home this year. Vail police handle emergency calls for the Eagle County sheriff's office and Eagle police.

Bryant is charged with raping the woman June 30 in his suite at a mountain resort where she worked and he was a guest. Bryant has said the two had consensual sex.

Bryant is scheduled to appear for an Oct. 9 preliminary hearing at which Gannett will decide whether he will stand trial.

An attorney for the accuser asked Gannett to deny a defense request for a hearing before Oct. 9 on whether she has waived her privacy rights on medical records.

Attorney John Clune said the material could be used only to attack the woman's credibility, which is not relevant at a preliminary hearing unless other testimony is determined "wholly implausible."

Defense attorneys Pamela Mackey and Hal Haddon are seeking medical records from a clinic in Eagle, a hospital in Greeley and the student health service at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where the woman was a freshman last year. They say the documents would help the judge evaluate the accuser's credibility.

Prosecutors and Clune are fighting that request, along with a defense attempt to force the accuser to testify in person Oct. 9.