Ford has a ‘weak case’

Prosecutor’s memo

The veteran prosecutor who lead the questioning during last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing said there wasn’t enough evidence to bring criminal charges against US Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh because of several key inconsistencies she found in Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony.

“A ‘ he said, she said’ case is incredibly difficult to prove, but this case is even weaker than that,” Rachel Mitchell wrote in a five-page memo sent to all Senate Republicans Sunday night and obtained by The Washington Post.

The Arizona prosecutor, a Republican whose life’s work has been investigating sex crimes, said the more than half a dozen inconsistencies she found based on evidence before the committee would dissuade “a reasonable prosecutor” from bringing the case.

“Dr. Ford identified other witnesses to the event and those witnesses either refuted her allegations or failed to corroborate them,” she wrote.

In the memo, Mitchell also said Ford “has no memory of key details” about the alleged assault by Kavanaugh, including exactly when and where it supposedly happened.

Ford, though, testified that she was “100 percent” certain that Kavanaugh was the teen who attacked her in 1982.

Mitchell also said that the people Ford identified as being at the gathering — Mark Judge, Patrick Smyth and Leland Keyser — haven’t been able to directly corroborate her account. Keyser, however, told the committee she believes Ford.

The Maricopa County prosecutor, whom the panel’s Republican members hired to question Ford for them, said she was not “pressured in any way to write this memorandum.”

Democrats have noted that the hearing was never intended to build a criminal case, saying it was akin to a job interview.