Former sex assault-case pursuing deputy DA accused of sexual assault crimes

This is a news story about a Deputy DA in California who was a sex crimes prosecutor and who is being accused of rape, sodomy, threatening to kill the alleged victim and other nasties.

It basically boils down to a "he said, she said" case because there is no remaining exculpatory evidence since the alleged rape. She filed the charges after learning her work contract with the DA's office would not be renewed. Sound familiar?

The DA who is being accused said he is shaken to his very core and BEING ON THE OTHER SIDE IS EXTREMELY PAINFUL. Ah, poor baby!

I wonder if he would now be open to the legal concept that making a false rape accusation is rape and should be prosecuted as a Class A felony? Excerpt:

'MARTINEZ, Calif. -- Contra Costa County Senior Deputy District Attorney Michael Gressett pleaded not guilty Friday to charges that he raped and sodomized a fellow prosecutor in May.

The charges, which were filed Friday in Martinez, include two counts rape, four counts sodomy, three counts forced sexual penetration, one count forced oral copulation, one count false imprisonment and one count of making criminal threats for allegedly threatening to kill the alleged victim, according to the complaint.
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"This false accusation has shaken me to the core," Gressett told a swarm of reporters outside the courthouse. "I know that the accuser knows these accusations are not true."

Gressett, who was one of the top sex crimes prosecutors in the county and has been an attorney since 1987, said that after so many years of prosecuting "bad guys and fighting to get ... the truth out" it was extremely difficult and painful to be on the other side.'

Gressett, 51, also faces multiple enhancements for allegedly tying up the alleged victim and using a handgun and an ice pick during the alleged assault.