Re: Status hearings discussion thread / next hearing April 29th -
Wow. Another example of 'TMZ got it wrong'. TMZ article made an impression (not directly said, but made an impression) that the defense already got the footage, saw it and wanted to add it as evidence of Michael's "weakness". Turns out that the defense had not yet got the footage from Sony, just requested it.
I also wanted to inform you that they discussed the footage of This Is It being subpoenad from Sony and was told they would not have before trial began and couldn't get to them until if I recall coorectly around the 4th. Chernoff or Flanagan asked Judge Pastor to make the prosecution wait before calling Kenny Ortega to testify until after they'd had time to review the raw footage once Sony had turned it over to them. Judge Pastor said if the subpoena was issued for a certain date for the material to be delivered then he would not address that issue until then and that Sony would need to comply with the subpoena. He declined the defenses request to make the prosecution wait for Otrtega's testimony after Walgren informed the court they would have to juggle a lot of things around to accomodate the defenses request adding that Ortega would be out of town at some point and it would be difficult to move their witnesses around.
Wow. Another example of 'TMZ got it wrong'. TMZ article made an impression (not directly said, but made an impression) that the defense already got the footage, saw it and wanted to add it as evidence of Michael's "weakness". Turns out that the defense had not yet got the footage from Sony, just requested it.