Word: albertism
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After the trial, Albert's accuser revealed herself to be Vanessa Perhach, a hotel worker from Vienna, Va. "I got justice," she said in a newspaper interview. "He admitted he did something wrong." She also said she hoped Albert wouldn't be thrown in the slammer...
...accuser took the stand on the second day and testified about her relationship with Albert, which she said began in 1986 when he was still married and she was a hotel switchboard operator in Miami. She said that on the night in question, the otherwise affectionate Albert bit her back and forced her to perform oral sex. During cross-examination, Black stunned the accuser and the prosecution by playing a tape of a conversation between her and a Washington-area cabdriver--Walter ("Biggie") Brodie--in which she tries to get him to tell the prosecution that Albert had asked...
Because Virginia law allows "surprise witnesses," the trial had a real Perry Mason moment Wednesday when the prosecution called Patricia Masden to the stand. Masden described two encounters with Albert while she was an employee of the Hyatt hotel chain. She said the first occurred in Miami in 1993 when, after a few drinks in his room, Albert asked her about oral sex and threesomes, then bit her lip when he tried to kiss her. The second took place in Dallas in 1994 after Albert asked her to come up to his room to help him send a fax. Masden...
...fourth day, Albert's cornermen threw in the towel. Afraid that the prosecution had more surprises and frustrated because Judge Kendrick was citing Virginia's rape shield law to disallow testimony that might have impeached the accuser's credibility, Black recommended that Albert accept the plea bargain that was said to have been offered to him before all that dirty laundry had been aired...
That left people wondering why Albert had been willing to put himself and his family through so much and why Black had allowed him to do so. "He was raped," Black complained to CNN's Burden of Proof last Thursday. "He was raped in the tabloids and the news... If he had been anyone else than Marv Albert, I don't think this case would have been brought...