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California Appeals Court to Hear Hollywood Movie Director's Guilty Plea Withdrawal

By Walin & Klarich

Director of "Die Hard" movie appeals decision with argument to withdraw previous guilty plea U.S. District Judge Dale S. Fischer may have to reconsider Hollywood movie director John McTiernan?s argument to withdraw his guilty plea of lying to the FBI over his links to disgraced private eye Anthony Pellicano. Fischer sentenced McTiernan to pay a $100,000 fine and serve four months in prison back in September 2007. Fischer may have to reevaluate the sentence though as a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel held that the judge should have listened to McTiernan?s argument more closely in regards to withdrawing his guilty plea. The Tuesday October 21, 2008 decision vacates McTiernan?s conviction and sends the case back to Fischer for an evidentiary hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).