This just in: Pellicano rests his case

In just a little over an hour, Anthony Pellicano -- who is representing himself in his federal trial on wire-tapping and racketeering -- delivered the sum total of his defense this morning, reports Carla Hall from the courtroom.

He called one witness, FBI computer forensics expert Donald Schmidt. He did not call himself, although the judge had offered last week to help him work out how he could do that. Most of Pellicano’s hour-long questioning this morning of Schmidt revolved around how the forensics expert was able to tell if the audio files on the computer seized from Pellicano’s office were actually wire taps.

Sitting in the courtroom were Pellicano’s wife, Kat, and his two daughters Josi, 17, and Tori, 18. “I think he did excellent,” said Kat Pellicano, when proceedings broke after a prosecutor's brief cross-examination.

-- Jesus Sanchez

Illustration: Associated Press

Comments

[Bonnie]

Well he was certainly smart enough not to call himself as a witness.