The most likely way I would think Strauss-Kahn might get out of this is if the maid, as a modest, faithful Moslem probably unused to talking to large groups of people--much less about something so intimate and shaming in her eyes--and probably also those of her community-----decides she just can't face giving the necessary excruciatingly detailed testimony to a room full of people--i.e. a courtroom.

Hope that doesn't happen.