Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that time, Albert assured his employers and the media that he was innocent of the charges and that he would be exonerated. (His reputation was hardly enhanced, though, when his name and phone number were found this summer in the black book of a murdered New York City dominatrix.) The principal players in the case were a casting director's dream. Leading Albert's defense was Roy Black, who had made his reputation defending William Kennedy Smith against a rape charge in 1991. The lead prosecutor was Richard E. Trodden, a former high school teacher who has been known...
What was happening inside the courtroom was even more outrageous. In his opening statement, Trodden pointed to Albert and told the jury that "a coarse and crude abuse of a human being took place...at the hands of that man." The prosecutor went on to reveal that Albert liked three-way sex and wore "ladies' underwear." Defense attorney Black in his statement portrayed the accuser as a troubled woman who sought revenge on his client because he was going to marry someone else. Black said she "collects" celebrities, pointing out that she once claimed to have had a "relationship" with...
...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...