Don Henley of the band"Eagles" arrives at the courtroom after lunch break at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 26, 2024, in New York. The Eagles frontman Don Henley said Monday he was the victim of"extortion" as the trial began of three men accused of trying to sell around 100 pages of stolen notes from the band's 1976 album"Hotel California".
At a hearing in open court on Wednesday, Justice Curtis Farber sharply criticized Henley and Azoff’s conduct: “It is now clear that both witnesses and their lawyers … used the privilege to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging to their position that the lyric sheets were stolen.”
“Albeit late, I commend the prosecution for refusing to allow itself or the courts to be further manipulated for the benefit of anyone’s personal gain,” Farber said. “District Attorney Bragg and the prosecutorial team here, while eating a slice of humble pie, are displaying the highest level of integrity in moving to dismiss the charges. I am impressed.
The trial kicked off last month, with Inciardi’s attorney telling the judge that prosecutors had “distorted the history” to charge innocent men and the DA’s office would be “apologizing at the end of this case.” Henley later testified that he had not willingly given away the notes, saying they were “something very personal, very private.”
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