NEW YORK (AFP) ? Lawyers for the woman accusing ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault asked the lead New York prosecutor Wednesday to step down from the case and appoint a special prosecutor.
At question were damaging leaks by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance's office that forced prosecutors to admit they had serious doubts about the credibility of the 32-year-old Guinean-born maid who accused Strauss-Kahn.
"District Attorney Vance, we ask in earnest that your office voluntarily recuse itself from the Strauss-Kahn case and that you appoint a special prosecutor," the woman's lawyer Kenneth Thompson wrote in a letter to the district attorney.
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