Legal Commentary

Monday Morning Open Thread

By Jeralyn

BTD has hearings this week, and is taking the week to prepare for them.

I'm not seeing much in the news this morning: Dr. Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's doctor, heads back to court where the DA is asking the judge to strip him of his medical license as a condition of bail. They tried it before with an earlier judge and lost. I think Dr. Murray's lawyers are correct, unless the state can show changed circumstances, the bail conditions should not be changed.

The latest tawdry celebrity couple news in the air pertains to Bruce Springsteen. Remember the woman whose husband claimed she had an affair with The Boss when the two got friendly at a New Jersey gym? He's filed court documents claiming she did have an affair with Bruce, She's now filed papers saying her husband made it up, thinking Bruce would pay to keep it quiet. She's also alleging he's a physical abuser who had numerous dalliances during their marriage. Someone ought to deliver a washing machine to the front door of all these couples (Jesse James, Tiger Woods, etc.) so that instead of foisting these personal, embarrassing details on us, they could be reminded to take care of their dirty laundry themselves.

One person in trouble who was impressive last night was Rod Blagojevich, who got "fired" last night on Celebrity Apprentice. [More...]

Rod's team lost, and while he was project manager, he had made Poison's Brett Michaels the creative head of the project. Trump really wanted to fire Brett and kept asking Rod why he wasn't bringing Brett back to the boardroom with him to be fired, and Rod kept saying, Brett did nothing wrong. He was loyal to the end, and who knows, maybe it will strike a chord with his jury in June. He went out proud, refused to diss anyone else, acknowledged what he could have done better and seemed like a nice guy. Of course, he's not doing this to influence a jury pool, but for the money. He's pretty unemployable these days and racking up hundreds of thousands in legal fees.

I'll try to cover some politics (as well as crime) in BTD's absence, so let me know in comments what topics you'd like addressed.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 05, 2010 (boomark / email).