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MIJACÂ’S LAWYER SUES EAVESDROPPING JET CO.
Mark Geragos says heÂ’s now paranoid about being secretly taped.
January 25, 2007
Mark Geragos – the lawyer who was secretly
videotaped while accompanying his client Michael
Jackson on a flight from Las Vegas to Santa
Barbara to surrender to child molestation charges
– is suing the jet company for an alleged invasion of privacy.
Jackson, who was acquitted of the charges in
2005 following a high-profile trial, was
originally part of the civil suit against
XtraJet, but later dropped out of the case.
Geragos testified this week that the secret
videotaping was one of the worst experiences of
his 24 years in legal work, and he now takes
extreme measures to ensure that his private
conversations with clients are not secretly
recorded. He testified that he has met with some
clients under freeway overpasses and in hotel
rooms, and twice sent a colleague overseas to
discuss a case rather than have them discuss it over the phone or by e-mail.
"I can't think of any act more distressing to me
at a professional level than what was done here,"
Geragos said, adding that he obtained a court
order preventing XtraJet's then-owner, Jeffrey
Borer, from selling the footage after learning of it through the news media.
Borer and co-defendant Arvel Jett Reeves pleaded
guilty in 2005 to installing two digital video
recorders to record "a professional entertainer"
and his lawyer as the pair traveled by private jet.
Borer was sentenced in October to six months of
home detention and three years' probation, and
was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. Reeves was
sentenced in July to eight months in prison, six
additional months in a halfway house and ordered to pay a $1,000 fine.
In videotaped testimony shown in court Monday,
Reeves said that no audio was recorded on the flight tapes.
Lawyers in the case waived their right to a jury
so that a Los Angeles Superior Court judge could decide the outcome.
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