DSK: abandon des charges aujourd'hui?

Pas nécessairement... Les avocats de DSK rencontrent aujourd'hui les procureurs de l'état. Recherche de compromis?

"Mr. Strauss-Kahn’s defense team gave indications last week that he would be unwilling to plead guilty to any crime unless prosecutors presented strong evidence. Barring that, the Manhattan district attorney’s office would have to dismiss the charges altogether or go to trial.

The prosecution must also consider whether it believes the case is strong enough to proceed to trial if Mr. Strauss-Kahn refuses to plead guilty.

William W. Taylor III, who, along with Benjamin Brafman, is representing Mr. Strauss-Kahn, declined to comment Tuesday on whether a meeting was scheduled or what steps would be taken in the case.

Erin M. Duggan, the chief spokeswoman for Mr. Vance, also declined to comment.

Mr. Vance, in interviews last week, reiterated his position that his office was taking the appropriate steps in a difficult case, given the evidence it had. Though some have suggested that his office moved too swiftly to indict Mr. Strauss-Kahn, the district attorney, who is in his second year on the job, got a ringing endorsement Tuesday on his handling of the case.

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, at a news conference in Brooklyn, praised Mr. Vance, saying he was “turning out to be a very good district attorney.”

“He’s taking on high-profile cases, and he’s facing them,” Mr. Bloomberg said. “And he probably made the right decision. Because if the allegations were true, are true, he had a legitimate worry about somebody fleeing this country, and we’d never get them back.”

Mr. Strauss-Kahn was taken off a plane bound for France when he was arrested at Kennedy International Airport.

But Mr. Bloomberg said something that might be looked at favorably by Mr. Strauss-Kahn and the French: that he was opposed to “perp walks,” the act of parading people accused of crimes before news cameras.

“I’ve always thought that the perp walks were outrageous, but that’s only my view,” he said. “Nobody’s asked me, and I have no say in it.”

In other developments on Tuesday, the housekeeper filed a libel lawsuit against The New York Post in State Supreme Court in the Bronx for articles in which the paper called her a prostitute.

The lawsuit, which asks for an unspecified amount of money, cites various front-page headlines, like “DSK Maid a Hooker,” “DSK ‘Refused to Pay’ Hooker Maid for Sex” and “She Saw Johns While in DA Protection!”

The stories were false, the lawsuit says, arguing that the woman has been subjected to “ridicule throughout the world.”

A spokeswoman for The Post, Suzi Halpin, said, “We stand by our reporting,” and declined to comment further.

Asked if the housekeeper had engaged in prostitution, Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, the lead prosecutor on the Strauss-Kahn case, said in an interview on Sunday, “I do not have one scintilla of information in that regard.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/nyregion/strauss-kahn-lawyers-and-prosecution-to-meet.html?_r=1&hp