Manhattan prosecutors moved Wednesday to drop charges against three men accused of a scheme involving stolen handwritten lyrics to The Eagles’ hit “Hotel California” — after admitting the band’s frontman Don Henley turned over 6,000 pages of evidence late.
The stunning turn of events came midway through the trial after Henley and his lawyers tried to weaponize their attorney-client privilege to “to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging,” Justice Curtis Farber said at a hearing Wednesday morning.
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