Mark Geragos

Geragos described Lively's litigation as a self-inflicted reputational disaster, comparing it to the Streisand effect.

“never has somebody so lit themselves on fire and for absolutely no reason”

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Geragos said the fee award would not be paid by Baldoni personally but fought over by insurance companies.

“it's not going to come out of justin baldoni's pocket this is all going to it's going to be a fight between the insurance companies over who's going to pay this”

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Geragos says any attorney's fee award in the Lively case will ultimately be paid by insurers.

“this is never going to come out of their pockets it's always going to come out of the insurance company pockets”

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Geragos theorizes the Lively settlement via private mediation was designed to shield her lawyers from a malpractice suit.

“The California Supreme Court case says if you go through private mediation, you can't sue your lawyer for legal malpractice”

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Geragos argued prosecutors, who bear the burden of proof, should not be allowed peremptory challenges at all.

“I've always thought the prosecutors shouldn't even have a peremptory”

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Geragos argued that the absence of African Americans on the jury effectively predetermined the verdict.

“When you don't have in jury selection African-Americans on that jury, it's preordained what your verdict's going to be”

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Geragos predicts the public will allow Jackson's legacy to be restored, citing the film's box office.

“Yes, the public will allow it. And the fact that it has exceeded everybody's expectations in terms of the box office”

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Geragos says the biopic's ending was cut short partly because some financiers felt misled about unresolved accusers.

“some of the people who were financing this film had been felt like they had been misled”

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Geragos says the Robson and Safechuck civil cases against the Jackson estate are set for trial in Beverly Hills in 2027.

“I think that's set for trial. 2027, Beverly Hills Courthouse”

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Geragos says he remains torn about the Cascio family's allegations given his past role as Jackson's defender.

“I'm as perplexed and torn as you are from the outside and having been on the inside as to these cross currents”

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Geragos argued there is already enough probable cause to hold Lance Twiggs to answer as a co-defendant.

“There is more than enough probable cause that's been developed so far on Twiggs. This idea that he's a subject and not a co-conspirator is nonsense”

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Geragos argued the judge limits public access to evidence to avoid a later challenge over a tainted jury pool.

“That is so they don't have a challenge later on to a tainted jury pool”

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Geragos said a source told him federal prosecutors stayed out because Utah genuinely enforces capital punishment.

“We didn't come in to Utah because they mean it when they say they've got a death penalty”

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Geragos said he now strongly supports cameras in courtrooms for trials, especially high-profile ones.

“I now fervently believe that you should have cameras in the courtroom for trials”

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Geragos predicted a judge would free up Nick Reiner's trust money because it would relieve taxpayers of paying for his public defense.

“if I free up money here from the trust, you pay Alan Jackson, that's going to be a zero sum game of money that we don't have to pay as taxpayers”

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Geragos said he never viewed the case as a true self-defense case but rather one of excessive force aimed at a manslaughter reduction.

“this did not strike me ever as a self-defense case yes you invoke self-defense but it was always going to be based on what was reported”

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Geragos, a Democrat, calls Katie Porter unqualified to be governor of California.

“You wouldn't hire her to run your 7-Eleven and we're going to hire her to run the fourth largest economy in the country”

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Geragos argues a $1 million settlement offer does not signal guilt because nuisance-value settlements have grown large.

“I'm old enough to remember when nuisance value was 15 grand and now nuisance value is a million and a half”

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Geragos argues civil claims over money should have firm time limits rather than being revived decades later.

“when you're in what I like to call money court, which is what civil court is, you're over there fighting over other people”

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Geragos objects that Leaving Neverland manipulated footage of him and argues documentaries should not distort facts.

“you shouldn't really manipulate the facts to the point that you just literally tell a story that is not true”

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Geragos argues the Martin Bashir interview set off the chain of events that led to Jackson's downfall and death.

“this Martin Bashir interview is what triggered, I think, in a lot of ways, the dominoes that led to his downfall and death”

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