Posted on 06/06/2003 5:30:02 AM PDT by runningbear
Posted on Thursday, June 5 2003 at 5:15 PM PST ----
Late Thursday afternoon, Judge Al Girolami agreed to allow the pool camera crew, Court TV, to setup a special television monitor outside the courthouse for gallery overflow. This means that members of the media who are not able to get access into the court proceedings on Friday morning may view and monitor the proceedings in a designated area on the corner of 11th & I Streets on court property.
It is ORDERED and STRICTLY PROHIBITED for this monitor and it’s audio to be re-recorded, re-broadcast or otherwise recorded and distributed while the hearing is underway. That means NO live cell phones picking up the audio feed, NO videotaping of the overflow gallery, NO long-lens shots from across the street, NO concealed recording devices, NO lav mics on or any other form of retransmission will be tolerated by the court.
If it is determined that a violation to this order occurs, the monitor and it’s audio will be immediately disconnected for the duration of the hearing. Any sustained violation will be considered a violation of the court's order. Future consideration for overflow monitoring for any upcoming proceedings will be disallowed by the court. The Sheriff’s Department will have several plain-clothes deputies closely monitoring this overflow area to ensure the judge’s orders are followed.
Friday's 6/6/03 Hearing Info & Pool arrangement
Posted on Tuesday, June 3 2003 at 8:16 AM PST ----
Seating & Press Credentials
Press credential seating notifications will be e-mailed by 5:00 pm PST on Thursday, 6/5/03.
Friday's hearing (June 6, 2003 at 8:30 am PST)
will have assigned seating in Department 2 of the Superior Court of Stanislaus County. The court will use the same system that has been in place from the beginning. Judge Girolami will hear arguments on the wiretap In Camera hearing and consider a Protective Order in order to guarantee a fair trial.
I'm trying to figure out what his motivation is. I suspect a bit of being in the public eye again is appealing to him. But to get on TV to say that Amber is unattractive in the photos, that the photographer was a two-bit photographer and laugh uproariously when suggesting that Amber plied her trade as a prostitute was too much for me. And, I might add, Greta was very classy last night ... she sneered repeatedly at Larry's insinuations! Go Greta!
August 23, 2001
Pay Back
Promoter David Hans Schmidt mouthed off to the cops, the county attorney and Sheriff Joe. He believes it landed him back in jail.
BY ROBERT NELSON
In late June, David Hans Schmidt placed a birthday card on the grave of his infant son Ben, who died eight years ago at birth.
A month later, New Times wrote about Schmidt's rollicking campaign to milk $6.5 million in damages from the county for Jefferson Davis McGee, who had his spleen removed after a protracted drubbing by inmates in county jail who wrongly believed he was a child killer.
Schmidt, marginally famous for brokering deals to get Tonya Harding and Paula Jones topless in nudie magazines, savaged county officials in the New Times story, then posed for the accompanying photo shirtless wielding a medieval battle ax.
He was Braveheart, the County Hunter.
Instead, the hunter became the hunted.
A few days after the story appeared, Phoenix police arrested Schmidt at gunpoint on charges of felony "aggravated domestic violence." His crime: leaving the card on his son's grave the month before.
Clearly, Schmidt is not an angel. He is renowned for his verbal abusiveness. He got caught with marijuana and drug paraphernalia back in 1999.
Schmidt and his attorney, though, say this most recent belated arrest is retaliation for Schmidt's representation of McGee and his rabid verbal attacks on police and county officials.
The catalyst for this retaliation, they say, is the mother of Schmidt's two daughters, with whom Schmidt is embroiled in a ferocious custody battle.
Before the card incident, that custody battle already had spawned three curious charges of harassment and abuse against him.
Then, on June 25, the mother of his two daughters told police the birthday card frightened her because Schmidt wrote on the envelope: "To be opened by Ben's sisters."
Snip
Schmidt's sordid tale is less Braveheart, more a three-ring War of the Roses. He represented McGee, in part, to get a platform to blast Phoenix police and the County Attorney's Office for their handling of accusations made by the mother of his two daughters.
Schmidt was arrested in April on a charge of felony abuse for allegedly hurting his 11-year-old daughter's toe during a late March visitation at his home.
Schmidt apparently was stretching his daughter's toes, which had caused her problems after years of ice skating. The girls' mother say Schmidt wouldn't stop pulling and popping the girl's toes after his daughter asked him to stop.
Snip
Out of jail, Schmidt began rebuilding his public relations business. In June, he began arranging what he says will be his biggest deal ever.
More...
http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:YRxlx0JqGN0J:www.phoenixnewtimes.com/issues/2001-08-23/news.html+David+Schmidt,+tonya+harding&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Enter Larry Flynt...the sleaze factor.
Amber will be a sympathic figure, who is being blackmailed into doing a new spread for Hustler, or else her amateur photos will be released?
No one is charging Flyntt with blackmail? What else can we call it? Talk about morals...Flyntt makes Amber look like a Saint
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