Posted on 03/09/2010 3:51:57 PM PST by Rebelbase
A judge said he is ready to send Andrew and Cheri Young to jail for up to 75 days for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones said the couple had failed to be truthful about the number of copies made of a sex tape of former Sen. John Edwards and his mistress and how many people have seen it, Michael Biesecker reports.
This is the fourth hearing Jones has held on the tape, and with each one the Youngs produced more material and more affadavits.
After he announced his decision, Andrew Young asked for a chance to explain himself. Jones allowed Young to take the witness stand. His attorneys have questioned him and after a recess Hunter's attorneys will have a chance.
Andrew Young previously said that he showed the sex tape to a producer for ABC and two book agents. After that, attorneys for Rielle Hunter, Edwards' mistress who Young says also appeared in the video, produced an affadavit from a ghost writer who previously worked for Edwards, Robert Draper of New York.
Draper swore in the document that on March 31, 2009 he and Young met at the Youngs' house. After Cheri Young had gone to bed, Andrew Young offered to show Draper the sex tape and played it on a big screen television in his office from his laptop, which suggested there was a digital copy stored on the laptop.
Young has turned over the original tape and a VHS copy. Federal agents have a DVD copy, but Young has sworn that other copies do not exist. He also did not disclose that he had shown it to Draper.
When the affadavit was brought up in court, Jones asked one of Hunter's lawyers, Alan Duncan: "Are you saying he lied to me."
"Yes, your honor."
"That's a painful thing," Jones said.
"There were things told to the court," Jones said from the bench, "under oath, in affadavits, in testimony that turned out to be inaccurate. Right now part of me says they didn't tell me the truth before in this court."
In past hearings, Jones told the Youngs that if he found they were not adhering to his orders, he would send them to jail for up to 75 days.
Young's lawyers tried to downplay the discrepancy as a memory lapse, one of many Young has suffered throughout the course of the hearings.
When does Edwards go to jail?
Pissin’ off the Judge is not a wise move.
I say let the tape into the wild.
Really get the Breck Girl mad.
Who would want to see that?!??!?! EEEEEWWWW!
“And oh yeah, I forgot, I also gave a copy to ...”
Hint to the Youngs upload it now online and turn over all copies,you can always redownload it!
Nah, I think he’s shopping it for a payoff.
That's what I wanna know.
I have to agree with you on that....Reille Hunter on her back panting, saying slay me bozo, would be more than I could take. Add to that the hair-do saying I’m going to.......baby.
Just more than I could take.
Spade: You're a liar.
Brigid: I am a liar. I've always been a liar.
Spade: Don't brag about it. Was there any truth at all in that yarn?
Brigid: Some . . . not very much.
Spade: We've got all night before us. I'll put some coffee on and we'll try again.
Oh - I'm so tired. Tired of . . . lies and thinking up lies and not knowing what is a lie and what is the truth. I wish I . . . .
Heard that an indictment is expected next month.
“A fine lot of thieves...”
“Don’t be too sure I’m as crooked as I’m supposed to be.”
“And when a man’s partner is killed you have to do something about it. No matter what you thought of him.”
Wait a minute—
“You shot Miles and you’re going over for it.”
(Who said Marxists aren’t great detective writers, eh?)
"What we've got here is...failure to communicate."
"I distrust a man who says "when." If he's got to be careful not to drink too much, it's because he's not to be trusted when he does."
"Now, sir. We'll talk, if you like. I'll tell you right out, I am a man who likes talking to a man who likes to talk."
"Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding."
"Ten thousand? We were talking about a lot more money than this."
"Yes, sir, we were, but this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk."
“.... this is genuine coin of the realm. With a dollar of this, you can buy ten dollars of talk.”
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