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Judge Pastor began hearing saying there were 2 issues that could be contempt: one was Dr. White's allegedly calling someone "







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Judge decided that the "







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But Judge Pastor did want to address the fact that Dr. White was told not to testify about his conversation w/ Dr Murray but tried to anyway
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At one point during cross examination, Dr. White told prosecutor David Walgren that he couldn't answer the question because judge said so.
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Defense attorney Michael Flanagan represented Dr White in court today. He said the expert reviewed hundreds of pages of material in the case
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Flanagan said Dr. White had more than 8 hours of conversation with Dr Murray and it was hard to distinguish where he got which info.
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Flanagan: Dr White is not professional witness. When confronted w/ inconsistency he innocently said he couldn't talk about his convo w/ def.
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Flanagan: there was no intentional deception here to violate a court order.
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Dr. White addressed the court saying he did his best to be as truthful and completely honest during his testimony.
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Dr White: I had no idea I was violating the court order by saying I couldn't talk about my 10-11 hours of conversation with Dr. Murray.
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Dr White: I was shocked I was accused with tampering the evidence. I tried to avoid stepping on those land mines.
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Dr. White to Judge Pastor: I apologize profusely if I disrespected you.
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Dr. White also told the judge he was never given rehearsed lines ton use during his testimony.
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Prosecutor Walgren didn't buy Dr. White's excuse though, saying "he intentionally and deliberately tried to sabotage the trial."
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Walgren: People knew going fwd that Dr. White wanted to out forth evidence that was not admitted and deny People's right to a fair trial.
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Dr. White told the judge he was astounded to hear the DA say he was trying to sabotage the trial and wanted Walgren to show proof of that.
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Judge Pastor said he was not going to discuss the issue "sabotage". He ended the hearing giving Dr. White until Dec. 16 to lay the $250 fine
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Judge lowered the initial $1,000 fine the contemplated, saying his decision was based on things he heard in court today.
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Dr. White told reporters in the hallway that the fine was "incredible, unconscionable, egregious". Flanagan said "what did you expect?"
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Dr. White also said he believed any fine was inappropriate since he didn't thing he did anything wrong.
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Dr White said he was shocked to see Murray led away in handcuffs. "There's no question he did some things wrong but they were not criminal"
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Dr White also said that if he could change things he would've advised Murray 2 take the stand 2 enlighten the jury on what happened Jun 25.
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OK - that last one has me just shaking my head. Who the heck does Dr. White think he is to be telling a defendant whether or not he should take the stand? I guess he thinks he is an attorney now and legal expert since he participated in the out of court discussions and strategy meetings (per the documentary). This guy has an ego that just doesn't stop.
IMO