The last few days of this case were almost like an episode of Benny Hill, and I cannot be the only who feels this way…this would have been at least a “hung jury.” I have received dozens of phone calls as to what I feel now as to my being wrong as to the guilty verdict. Sorry I am not going to apologize to anyone in what I feel was the tone and look of the jury. Is it my fault that the one person who would not be swayed was kicked off the jury? How about jury misconduct? Juror #7 was young, perhaps a little off on his comments, but he was not going to find Christensen guilty! And Team “Get me out of here in time for the weekend” was not going to be coming back to discuss this case any further after today, hell half of them had reservations at Subway.

First day of “In the Jury Room,” maybe 1.50 hours and it is “send help,” we have a juror who won/t conform! Day 2, Team “get me out of here” gets #7 booted at about 10 AM and the alternate is brought in, done at 2PM. NOTE: DID ANYONE ELSE SEE HIM PAT THE SHOULDER OF JUROR #9 AS HE WALKED PAST HER? (#9 being a member of Team “get me out of here”). Ok, Day 3, it is not even 10ish and we have a verdict! What kind of review of the evidence did this group of Mr. Christensen’s “peers” do? By my estimate this jury spent less than 7 hours coming to their verdict…and don’t anyone tell me that the activity of Day 1 and Day 2 did not have an impact on all of them, I say it had a great deal, and what about the “alliance?”

My position on this case is very clear, if they convicted Terry Christensen, why not all of the others? However, the comments from the legal community are just full of bad words and dagger throwing towards this man and the firm he founded.

Be sure to read the rest of John J. Nazarian’s fascinating take on the guilty verdict with a few interviews with attorneys.

http://desperateexes.com/2008/08/30/guilty/.

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Arrived a little late this morning to the Christensen…

The Christensen legal team is kicking ass and it is Patty Glaser taking the lead. Folks, this is one investigator that is very impressed, and as many of you know it is not easy to impress John J. Nazarian. She was again on top of her game today as she made Mr. Lopez, the “Asset Protection investigator” from AT&T/SBC/shit service phone company, wish he was anyplace else but sitting in that box staring at this woman (Glaser), and he now wishing she would evaporate. She did not — she only got stronger and she made Mr. Lopez look pretty silly as to his not following up on several critical areas that should have been of huge interest to him. Such as were did the tap go? This was not a concern to Mr. Lopez…go figure, he could have done a great deal to locate where these phone lines went that were tapped by you know who and his gang… but he did nada.

Terree Bowers and Glaser are doing an incredible job in trying to get Christensen off the “cross.” The only thing I feel that Christensen has done wrong is that he trusted someone with no honor and got double-crossed. Pellicano taped his calls with Mr. Christensen 34 times…why does anyone record his own guy 34 times? Terree Bowers is no sleeper here either folks, a former U.S. Attorney, one time Chief Deputy City Attorney for L.A. and now a partner with Howrey, LLC…talk about a class act! And thank god that his style is different than Patty’s, otherwise the Feds would need ambulances parked out front to take some of these flakey participants (ie, witnesses) to a hospital. I have always said that if you want to be a witness and testify…well here you are…having fun yet?

No one can look at this story and not feel a little sorry for Terry Christensen. He practiced law for many years in this town and if you had the money he was a go to guy. I have been quoted many times that I don’t play nice and I don’t think you are supposed to when you are gathering information. And powerful law firms exists for powerful people who choose to pay the fees and expect results. Is Terry Christensen guilty? Maybe or maybe not…what is very sad is that this is a classic example of “selective enforcement.”

…Anthony Pellicano was very “giddy” today, he laughed and smiled like he had a bunch of misplaced feathers stuffed in his behind. What gives? Terry Christensen is fighting for his professional life as well as his freedom and the guy who caused all of this is acting like he is going to a dance, and right in front of Terry (if I was Terry I would pick up the heaviest thing I could find and smack this silly bird with it). Anthony needs to sit and shut up and let the Christensen defense team “tune up” the jury. …

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http://desperateexes.com/2008/08/14/power-duo-glaser-and-bowers/.

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August 14, 2008
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