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Allison Hope Weiner: Pellicano Trial: Tarita Virtue In Tears, Puppies Abandoned and a Garry Shandling/Brad Grey Preview

It became apparent today at the Pellicano trial why some people actually go to law school in order to be attorneys. Even though Mr. Pellicano made a decent showing in his early cross of some of the witnesses, today his cross of Tarita Virtue–which is still ongoing–made we want to stand up and scream “Get a God damn lawyer to help you.” Or, in the alternative, “why don’t you just head right over to prison now.” Or, how about asking maybe, one of the other defense lawyers to give you some pointers.Ex-Pellicano employee, Tarita Virtue, was on the stand for most of today. Several of the defense attorneys managed to highlight some of the obvious contradictions in her testimony and to question her motives. After Lawrence Semenza, who represents Abner Nicherie, finished his cross-examination, I had some questions about Ms. Virtue’s rather selective memory and wondered about why she seemed so familiar with Mr. Nicherie being in the office and listening to wiretaps, but had no idea why he’d hired Mr. Pellicano. And by the time defense attorney Mona Soo Hoo took her seat, I had some doubts about whether Ms. Virtue really left Los Angeles because she believed that Mr. Pellicano had threatened her life. And, after hearing Ms. Virtue go on endlessly about casually listening into the most private conversations of Mr. Pellicano’s targets, I wondered if Ms. Soo Hoo was right about Ms. Virtue thinking the law didn’t apply to her. Although none of the defense attorneys really addressed the meat of Tarita’s testimony–the fact that she’d transcribed, summarized and listened to a hell of a lot of wiretapped recordings–they did manage to to throw some doubt on whether she’d testified truthfully about their respective clients’ involvement in the illegal wiretapping. Basically, by the time most of the defense attorneys were done chatting with Ms. Virtue, they’d effectively raised the possibility that Ms. Virtue was willing to say just about anything about anyone–especially Mr. Arneson, Mr. Turner and Mr. Nicherie–to keep the government from sending her down the river.But when everyone should have just let Ms. Virtue gracefully exit the stand with the jury possibly wondering about her motives and her veracity, Mr. Pellicano stepped up to the podium, determined to have it out with Tarita Virtue and to get a few things straight about their past history.The confrontation between the detective and his former junior private eye/wiretap transcriber, started off with a soft spoken, almost morose Pellicano gently asking Ms. Virtue if she’d told an interviewer that she “hoped he’d have a stroke and die in prison.” Ms. Virtue coldly replied, “Yes, I did.” There was a beat of silence. “You wish me dead?” Pellicano asked sadly. “I did when you threatened my life,” spat back Ms. Virtue. “I most certainly did.” From the sound of her voice, it looked like she wasn’t about to apologize to Pellicano for helping to send him to prison. When he talked about them having a father and daughter relationship, she interrupted by noting that the operative tense was “had.”But Pellicano pressed on, wondering why if she feared and distrusted him so much, she’d sent him loving and supportive emails over the years. “I wanted you to think that I’d always be on your side,” Ms. Virtue explained about the numerous emails and faxes she’d sent since his indictment. She said that she wanted him to think that she was still going to remain loyal so that he wouldn’t know that she was busy cooperating with the F.B.I. “So, you sent me deceptive emails,” Mr. Pellicano summarized. She refused to admit to the the emails being deceptive, but basically, that was a fair characterization. She said the emails were meant to show her loyalty and to disguise the fact that she was cooperating with the F.B.I. She feared that the detective would come after her if he knew the truth. As Mr. Pellicano struggled to look kind, soft and non-threatening, he softly asked her the worst of his questions for the day. “What was it that made you afraid of me?” He quietly inquired. And then, Ms. Virtue took off the gloves. She tearfully recounted him calling her father and threatening her life–often sobbing so hysterically that it was difficult to hear her testimony.Just when I thought she couldn’t get any more sympathetic with the endless tears and reams of tissue, and her talk about feelings of betrayal and then some weird stuff about loving Anthony even though he didn’t care about her, she finished him off with an abandoned puppy story. It was just too much–the …

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