UPDATED: It all has to do with Asst U.S. Attorney Daniel Saunders oversealousness in calling to testify a woman who appears to have lied on the witness stand and to the feds about Pellicano co-defendant LAPD Sgt Mark Arneson. Here is the just posted story by LA Weekly's Steven Mikulan, my DHD trial correspondent, who explains everything.) 
The jury has just been sent home, and U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer will rule on a mistrial motion filed by Arneson's attorney. Arneson is charged is charged with illegally using law enforcement databases to help Hollywood P.I. Anthony Pellicano's investigations. (CAA partners Bryan Lourd and Kevin Huvane, among others, were probed that way...) So everything is now in a state of flux. And what everyone is wondering is whether this means all five defendants or just Arneson would have to be tried over again, and therefore a do-over by all those Hollywood witnesses. Mikulan emailed me: "As of now 'mistrial' pertains only to Mark Arneson, although how it could effect the others remains uncertain, should he be severed from the case."
LA Weekly: Pellicano Trial Bombshell: Witness Shocker Throws Trial Into Turmoil
I’ll lay anyone good odds that a mistrial won’t be granted. The judge will give an instruction to clear up the problem and the case will continue
Comment by Richard — April 25, 2008 @ 11:30 am
Sorry, but Bankruptcy is a very very very serious matter for the courts. If anything, there will likely be a mistrial followed by a grand jury convening in a perjury case.
Comment by Jessy S. — April 25, 2008 @ 12:30 pm
“…and in a trial with a twist and turn that Dick Wolf would reject as unbelievable….”
Comment by anotherWGAmember — April 25, 2008 @ 1:20 pm
Didn’t these US Prosecutors work at FEMA?
Comment by Anonymous — April 26, 2008 @ 8:18 am
“If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.” — EMILE ZOLA
And, that is just what is happening here. Everyone involved in this is trying to do just that…bury the truth.
Comment by a comment — April 26, 2008 @ 5:56 pm
Through immersion in this case the FBI has obviously become familiar with the scope of the wiretapping problem in Los Angeles. Who knows how many raids and arrests will occur over the next few years?
Comment by V — April 27, 2008 @ 10:27 am