“From what I could tell, the testimony was very powerful, detailed, sometimes harrowing, but related in a calm and reflective manner,” former federal prosecutor and Partner Kevin O’Brien told Salon. “Carroll was particularly articulate about the impact on her life — not just her physical person — of the alleged rape, especially her inability to enter into intimate relationships since.”
“Carroll was very well prepared for her chance, as she put it, to tell her side of the story,” O’Brien said.