Attorney Kenneth Thompson told The New York Times that he got a letter from an assistant district attorney offering to meet with his client on Monday, the day before Strauss-Kahn’s next scheduled court appearance.

A person familiar with the case, who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity, confirmed that a meeting was scheduled for Monday.

The letter said the purpose was to discuss what would happen in court the next day. It said prosecutors would only meet the woman at 3 p.m.

“Should she not be available or should she fail to attend, I will assume that she does not wish to take advantage of this opportunity,” wrote the prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Artie McConnell.

Thompson told the Times that he thinks prosecutors wouldn’t have asked for the meeting unless they planned to give her bad news about the case.

“If they were not going to dismiss the charges,” he told the newspaper, “there would be no need to meet with her. They would just go to court the next day to say, ‘We’re going to proceed with the case.’”

(AP)