Regarding what one judge referred to as a “bizarre situation,” lawyers for disgraced attorney-to-the-stars Terry Christensen argued on Monday that a juror who’d been leaning against convicting him of federal wiretapping charges was wrongfully dismissed during deliberations.
Christensen, once managing partner of what is now Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Shapiro in Los Angeles, was convicted in 2008 in the federal government’s massive wiretapping prosecution involving private investigator Anthony Pellicano. Christensen, who was tried alongside Pellicano but separately from the other defendants, was accused of paying the celebrity sleuth $100,000 to wiretap the ex-wife of billionaire Kirk Kerkorian in a child-custody dispute.
