Travolta Extortion Trial Declared A Mistrial
Travolta Extortion Trial Declared A Mistrial in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort millions of dollars from actor John Travolta after the death of his 16 year old son, Jett Travolta.
Judge Anita Allen declared a mistrial in the John Travolta extortion trial over possible juror misconduct. She felt that someone in the jury had had inappropriate communications outside of the jury room, where jurors had been deliberating for eight hours.
I feel badly for the Travolta’s because the loss of their son was enough to deal with and now they have to start all over again, in order to get some kind of finalization of the extortion charge.
Judge Anita Allen received information that an announcement had been made at a local political rally, that one of the defendants had been found not guilty.
Was the slip of the lip done on purpose?
Paramedic Tarino Lightbourn and former Bahamian Sen. Pleasant Bridgewater, who is also Lightbourn’s attorney, were accused of trying to extort money from the Travolta family.
Jett Travolta died January of 2009, after suffering a seizure at the family’s vacation home on the island of Grand Bahamas, where the family was spending a New Year’s holiday.
Lightbourn and Bridgewater allegedly tried to get the Travolta family to pay them $25 million to not make public a medical document, declining to have Jett transported to a nearby hospital. The Travolta’s refused a demand for money.
Both Lightbourn and Bridgewater have pleaded not guilty in the extortion case, even though they were recorded in their efforts to extort the Travolta family.
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I’m thinking that this trial and the jury involved has eerie similarities to the O.J. trial in that you have, most probably, a predominately black jury that will not convict the defendants, which are black, who perpetrated a crime against a white victim – no matter how heinous or disgusting the crime was.
I say this assuming, probably correctly, that the jury in this case was moving to aquit both defendants in the case regardless of overwhelming evidence indicating their guilt. This type of reverse discrimination and renegade jury mentality cannot go unpunished! I, for one, as traveler who loves tropical vacations would scratch Nassau, Bahamas off of my list as a vacation destination in protest!
While my action alone isn’t much, the actions of many could have a bearing on peoples thinking – especially once they realize that there are consequences for such miscarriages of justice based on race and I really do believe that in this case that’s what’s going on here.
I still feel that there is something very unusal about this boys death, why did he cremate him so quickly? What was he trying to hide about his boys death?
There are more questions than answers and that is a fact.
If there was something he was hiding instead of trying to get money out of the family bring things forward the legal way so there would be an investigation but no they went around the illegal way and got themselves into big trouble.
I think he went there to get rid of this child because he had to work hard to keep this child well but that is the way I feel.