Kink v. Combs

In the opening statement to the jury Mr. McManus, trial counsel for the plaintiffs, stated:

“The testimony will be that . . . Mrs. Kink felt ... a hard object which she will testify in her opinion was a sexual organ . . . that she was covered with saliva and subsequent ly that upon this black dress, which we shall enter into evidence, she will testify that semen stains were ejected upon this dress by Mr. Combs, who had his physical organ exposed.”

In fact, however, Mrs. Kink did not testify that the hard object was a sexual organ or that semen stains were ejected upon the dress. The defendant…