CNN cut ties with Mark Geragos just hours after the celebrity attorney was named as a co-conspirator in a case accusing lawyer Michael Avenatti of trying to extort Nike. By Kyle Swenson Kyle Swenson Reporter for Morning Mix Email Bio Follow March 26 at 6:28 AM It was November 2003. Mark Geragos was earning a worldwide rep for defending the most reviled man in America inside a courtroom in Modesto, Calif., when his beeper started screaming.
“If I’m going to represent somebody, I think at the very least they deserve someone who can find the good in them,” Geragos told the Los Angeles Times in 2003. “I don’t think most people are evil. I think sometimes people are demonized unfairly.”On Monday, federal authorities arrested attorney Michael Avenatti, the former lawyer for adult-film actress Stormy Daniels.
“My father was sworn in as a D.A. in January 1957, the same month I was conceived,” Geragos told Super Lawyers in 2009. As a kid, Geragos would sit in courtrooms and watch as his father’s cases unfold, an experience that fixed his own trajectory toward the courthouse.Geragos studied anthropology and sociology at Haverford College, then after graduation entered Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
Upon release, McDougal was charged again for criminal contempt and obstruction of justice. At the suggestion of his father, Geragos stepped in to her defense. As he explained to the New York Times, Geragos took the case pro bono, explaining to McDougal that because of his Armenian background, he “had a special appreciation for victims of government oppression.”
The jury acquitted McDougal on the obstruction of justice charge and deadlocked on the criminal contempt charge. Geragos was defiant on the steps of the courthouse. “They don’t have the guts to retry it,” he said, the Los Angeles Times reported in 2003. He eventually worked to get McDougal a full pardon in the last hours of Clinton’s presidency.
Nic
Please clarify something for me. In what way did he defend Kaepernick? In a legal sense? I'm not aware of any charges against him. A lawsuit?
I'm glad so many people have found Avenatti guilty already 🙄
Bwahahaha. Wasn’t CNN just having a serious conversation about avenatti running for president?
Without Avenatti and Geragos, where will CNN turn for expert legal commentary?
Don’t do it! Don’ b a loser!
Wondering if Kaepernick had the wrong lawyer.
🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣
Maybe they’ll give him a plumb job in the prison laundry.
The left cannibalizes themselves.
Lol 😂 he is trying to extort his client Kaepernick7 sponsor Nike maybe he and his other client JussieSmollett can share a jail cell
Slime ball
Seems as though Geragos has a propensity to align himself with scumbags!
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