SFist: Tiger Attack Update: Slingshots, Vodka, and Michael Jackson's Lawyer

manys

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:47:39 -0800

rowr!

sagitta100

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:52:12 -0800

I'm sure each brother is wishing the other had died so he could ask for more money in the upcoming settlement.

lcastle92407

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:49:44 -0800

Tatiana bravely gave her life in the swift removal of a retard from the human gene pool. It's unfortunate that she was not able to finish off the other 2 village idiots prior to being taken out by San Fran's finest. RIP Tatiana...

RobInSF

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:24:45 -0800

What's a "laywer?"

redseca2

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 17:30:51 -0800

This is leaning towards being the Yale Glee Club versus Sacred Heart HS story for 2008. A month of almost daily new tidbits and then blink! It's gone.

pepelicious

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:38:20 -0800

Unfortunately this case seems like it's going to be a flippin media circus and the trial will have to be moved to some backwater town where a bunch of simpletons will be conned in to believing whatever story Geragos tells them since he's 'been on tv'. God, I can't wait to move out of this retarded city.

Tendernob

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:42:14 -0800

If they're contemplating a civil suit why hire a criminal DEFENSE lawyer?Geragos is both a civil and criminal lawyer. In fact, he first made a name for himself with class action lawsuits on behalf of victims of the 1915 Armenian genocide. Check out his website. He's a real piece of work. He brags of being “one of only two lawyers ever named Lawyer of the year in both the Criminal and Civil arenas. (Johnnie Cochran was the other)." Also, Winona Ryder has never won an Academy award.

Aventinus

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:26:47 -0800

Meanwhile, Mollindo is now saying that Tatiana was taunted without going into detail. He was definitely Geragoaded into it. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/12/30/state/n091309S35.DTL

Greg

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:04:54 -0800

If they're contemplating a civil suit why hire a criminal DEFENSE lawyer? Maybe the Dhaliwhatevers need to be shipped off to somewhere where tigers roam free, and they can engage in their lying bullshit out in the wild and see how long that lasts them. I say screw 'em, and screw the private company running the zoo for us taxpayers, and let 'em all STFU!

KWillets

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:44:48 -0800

It's pronounced Grrrrragos.

Spencer Williams

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:17:00 -0800

I actually heard about the slingshot story on the morning news on TV - not sure what channel I was watching though....

SFistJim

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:15:22 -0800

One problem with suing for defamation is that truth is a defense. That's the first problem. There are others.

suckafree

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:02:35 -0800

this is my favorite quote: Sam Singer, a newly hired spokesman for the zoo, said Tuesday that it was "highly unusual that (Geragos) is the only person who has the facts, when the San Francisco Police Department hasn't even completed its investigation." "Anything that a defense attorney says has to be taken with not a pinch of salt, but a ton of salt," Singer said. in other words, geragos is an ass clown as we all know

nikola1tesla

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:47:20 -0800

Your so-called source, The "New York Post," is a well -known rumor mongering gossip rag that makes crap up with zero proof, like the National Enquirer or the World Weekly News. Not one other news source says a damn thing about slingshots OR vodka. The Post doesn't cite where they got the supposed inside "info"-- which, as is usual for them, shows they likely invented the shockingly juicy tidbit just to pull readers in & to create more scandal. Did you make a simple jouranalistic mistake here, or are you now sinking to their level? I hope Mark Geragos sues EVERYONE who prints such slanderous, libelous, hurtful, unproven, made up, mudslinging garbage, including you.

Tendernob

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:27:39 -0800

Why would ANYONE hire Mark Geragos? He is the worst criminal defense attorney on planet Earth. He lost the Winona Ryder case, he lost the Scott Peterson case, he was fired by Michael Jackson, and Gary Condit has been banished to post-electoral obscurity. The guy's a hack job! Akit is onto something - he's probably working for free.

Akit

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:03:58 -0800

I'm betting Garados is doing this thing for free, in exchange, he'd get a cool million back for doing very little and it'll be settled out of court (instead of the wasted hours in court on Peterson).

Brock Keeling

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:39:47 -0800

"The New York Post is a rag at best." No kidding. I imagine most of our readers already know this. But thank you for explaining the obvious.

atthebeach

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:36:52 -0800

And a Happy New Year to you, as well. I can only assume (hope?) that this story is a bad attempt at hangover humour. The New York Post is a rag at best and the slingshot story has not been substantiated by anyone. Surely, the zoo's spokesman, Mr. Singer [sic], would be spreading this rumour everywhere, if there were even a grain of truth. However, he is busy spreading the "news" that there was an empty vodka bottle in the perps' car. Not that there was any drinking by the young men while they were at the zoo. You have to exit the zoo to get to the parking lot. California has strict liability laws for owners of dangerous animals, and the zoo is apparently trying to show contributory negligence on the brothers' part. The choice of Geragos as an attorney is theirs to make. Geragos is a publicity seeker and hasn't done too well by some of his clients, at least one of whom is now on death row. But, choosing a criminal lawyer instead of a civil liability lawyer isn't the same as admitting to being a criminal. The media circus will be the best story since Anna Ayala and Larry Craig. I can't wait for more.

suckafree

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:12:08 -0800

it's great to know who exactly to hire for my defense if i ever kill my wife, kill my intern i'm sleeping with, molest my kids, kill an exotic animal at a zoo or shoplift like there's no tomorrow.

manys

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:08:35 -0800

Geragos is a professional loser, and his job is to stave off the lynching and turn it into probation. That all the talk is about the boys' civil case against the zoo is just ballyhoo, the real issue is the Souza death and who will be held responsible for it.