Wilkes: Leave The Hookers out of It
By Paul Kiel - October 1, 2007
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004336.phpWill Brent Wilkes beat the rap? Or has he said his last Boom Shaka Laka?
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000651.phpWe'll soon find out. The trial for one of Duke Cunningham's favorite defense contractors is set to begin Wednesday, when Wilkes will try to convince a jury that the hundreds of thousands of dollars of gifts and payments that he gave Cunningham weren't bribes.
But Wilkes' lawyer Mark Geragos had a number of requests today before the trial gets started. Among them was a motion (
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilkes-prostitutes/) to preclude any evidence that Wilkes had provided Cunningham with prostitutes.
Geragos reasons (
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/docs/wilkes-prostitutes/) that prosecutors are just out to dirty his client:
There is little probative value in presenting the testimony of professional call girls, persons admittedly in the business of regularly breaking the law and making a living through illegal vice. The real purpose of presenting that evidence is to sully Mr. Wilkes in the eyes of the jury. ..........