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Pellicano Trial Update: Jury Has Case

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Thursday May 1, 2008 @ 2:25pm PDTTags: Agents, Courts, Hollywood, Law, Ovitz, Pellicano, Pellicano Jury, Scandal, U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders

Here is DHD/LA Weekly trial correspondent Steven Mikulan’s wrap-up: “Prosecutor Daniel Saunders got the last word in during the government rebuttal argument. Saunders, who’d been lumbered during his  closing argument by the need to enumerate most of the 78 counts involved in the RICO case, got to unload on the five defendants and their attorneys. He upbraided the defense for diverting attention away from the accused to the case’s many unindicted or plea-bargained witnesses, noting that to try to fix the crimes’ responsibility on such lesser actors was “like going after the johns and not the prostitutes, the junkies and not the dealers.” After 90 minutes, Saunders concluded by declaring, “This case is not about Hollywood. It’s not about Sylvester Stallone or Keith Carradine. It’s not even about Brad Grey or Michael Ovitz . . . This is a case about people who believed the justice system could be bought with a $25,000 nonrefundable retainer.”

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Breaking Pellicano Bombshell: A Mistrial? Feds’ Witness Screws Up Trial Big-Time

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Friday April 25, 2008 @ 11:03am PDTTags: Agents, Courts, Hollywood, LAPD Sgt Mark Arneson, Law, Pellicano, Pellicano Mistrial, Scandal, U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders

UPDATED: It all has to do with Asst U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders oversealousness in calling to testify a woman who appears to have lied on the witness stand and to the feds about Pellicano co-defendant LAPD Sgt Mark Arneson. Here is the just posted story by LA Weekly‘s Steven Mikulan, my … Read More »

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