The disbarred attorney will not face judgment alongside his former bookkeeper after his defense team alleged that each would act as a “second prosecutor” of the other.
without co-defendant Chris Kamon after a Los Angeles judge ruled that the defense strategy of Girardi’s former bookkeeper would likely bias the jury against the estranged husband of “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star Erika Jayne, according to court papers obtained Thursday.
U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton granted a defense motion to split the case into separate trials on Wednesday, finding that the defendants’ anticipated defense strategies would pit Girardi against Kamon in such a way that each would tend to act as a “second prosecutor” of the other. “Generally, this fact lends itself to a joint trial, as evidence of the existence of a scheme to defraud and the manner and means through which it was allegedly carried out is likely to be the same as to both defendants. But the potential for prejudice arises out of the anticipated defenses, which pits defendant Girardi against defendant Kamon such that each will tend to act as a ‘second prosecutor’ of the other.
Girardi became widely known when he was thanked in the credits of the 2001 Oscar-winning film “Erin Brockovich,” for which he served as an adviser. The attorney was part of the legal team when Brockovich successfully sued Pacific Gas & Electric in 1993 for contaminating the groundwater of a small California town.
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