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Monday, June 8, 2015

No One Would Have Cared

June 08, 2015 Larry Getlen , Nypost.com 0 Comments
Book Claims Whitney Houston Was Extorted Amid Lesbian Affair 

By Larry Getlen, Jun. 7, 2015, NYPost.com

On the eve of the premiere of the Whitney Houston movie “The Bodyguard” movie in 1992, a Chicago lawyer tried to extort $250,000 from her, according to a heavily redacted FBI file.

The extortion attempt, revealed in “Whitney & Bobbi Kristina: The Deadly Price of Fame” (Gallery Books) by Ian Halperin, came at a time when Houston was besieged by rumors about a lesbian affair with her personal assistant and longtime friend, Robyn Crawford.

Modal TriggerThe lawyer told an FBI agent that the info included “knowledge of intimate details regarding Whitney Houston’s romantic relationships and will go public with the information.”

According to the report, Houston’s father, John Houston, “settled the matter by sending a confidentiality agreement almost immediately,” although it was “unclear how much money was paid to silence the person and whether he met the initial demand for $250,000.”

That same year, Whitney married singer Bobby Brown. On the day of the wedding, Halperin notes, the bride gave Crawford a black Porsche “as a token of their friendship.”

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Monday, June 2, 2014

The Man Who Got OJ, Casey Anthony And Phil Spector Off --Why didn't the double-killer hire him for the Vegas trial?

June 02, 2014 Casey Anthony , Crime 0 Comments
Defense Attorney Richard Gabriel
By Larry Getlen, May 31, 2014, Nypost.com

 There was shock across the country in 2011 when 25-year-old Orlando mom Casey Anthony was found not guilty of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.

 But there was one person who saw it coming.

 Richard Gabriel is one of the country’s top trial consultants, working with defendants in high-profile cases to help steer the trial toward acquittal.

 Having worked on more than a thousand trials, including those of Anthony, O.J. Simpson and Phil Spector, his expertise comes in helping defense teams learn which factors will most strongly influence jurors, and this begins with the all-important jury selection.

 In his new book, “Acquittal,” Gabriel shows how he picked the juries that would say “not guilty.”

 To prepare for jury selection in the murder case against Simpson, Gabriel and his team conducted a slew of research, including polls and mock trials.

 What they learned was essential for Simpson’s defense, including that many in the potential jury pool wanted Simpson to be not guilty, that many doubted he had time to commit the murders, that only those under 35 placed faith in DNA evidence, and that many in the potential jury pool had “been treated poorly by the police.”

 As a result of this last finding, the defense filed a motion to ensure that, when jury notices were mailed out, “lower socioeconomic areas were fairly represented,” as they sought jurors for whom “claims of police profiling and evidence planting were not desperate attempts of a defendant trying to escape conviction,” but rather, “a reality of living with the Los Angeles Police Department.”

 They also uncovered some surprising findings on the attitudes of women.

“Almost half of the divorced or widowed women we spoke to leaned toward acquittal,” he writes. “Nicole Brown Simpson’s history of 911 calls and domestic abuse did not impress them as a motive for murder.”

Delving deeper, Gabriel learned that “some who had been in troubled relationships shared that they themselves had contributed to the volatility . . . and the stronger women were proud to claim they gave as much as they got.”

Given that the prosecution would be hoping to fill the jury with women, assuming they would be sympathetic toward Nicole, this was crucial.

“We learned that we did not have to be overly concerned with strong women who had been in physically combative relationships,” he writes. “This provided a big strategic advantage by allowing us to keep jurors that the prosecution would also want, gambling that our research was better than their intuition.”

A questionnaire was sent to prospective jurors, including 50 pages asking for their perspectives on anything that could come into play during the trial, and a one-page hardship questionnaire. Since the trial was expected to last six months, many ideal prosecution jurors could not serve.

“Many higher-income, conservative jurors who were more reliant on law enforcement and less willing to believe in police tampering or misconduct did not want to serve on this long a trial,” he writes.

This left, in large part, employees of the government and other large entities whose employers would pay for their jury time and who, being familiar with mind-numbing and inefficient bureaucracies, “were more receptive to the defense themes of police error and misconduct.”

In addition to deciding what type of individual jurors they sought, they also had to strategize about the jury as a whole.

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