2011-08-23, 12:36
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Australia
Age: 41
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Sexual assault charges against former IMF director dismissed
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A New York judge has dismissed the sexual assault case against former IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
The move came as prosecutors cited doubts over the credibility of his accuser, 32-year-old hotel maid Nafissatou Diallo.
Mr Strauss-Kahn, 62, was accused in May of attacking the African immigrant as she entered his hotel room to clean it.
The ruling means he is a free man, though he still faces a civil suit Ms Diallo filed this month.
"Our inability to believe the complainant beyond a reasonable doubt means, in good faith, that we could not ask a jury to do that," Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi-Orbon told Judge Michael Obus.
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