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Criminal

Sep. 23, 2008

Private Eye's Bid for New Trial Denied

A federal judge on Monday rejected a motion for a new trial by Anthony Pellicano, whose attorney argued that the jury's foreperson may have been influenced by a prosecutor's off-the-record remark during the trial.

By Ciaran McEvoy
Daily Journal Staff Writer

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge on Monday rejected a motion for a new trial by Anthony Pellicano, whose attorney argued that the jury's foreperson may have been influenced by a prosecutor's off-the-record remark during the trial.

Steven F. Gruel, a San Francisco-based attorney who is helping Pellicano on post-trial matters, argued that Terri Winbush, the foreperson in Pellicano's first trial this year, lie...

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