Surprise: Manhattan DA Checks Out of 'Hotel California' Case, Kills the Beast

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.

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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.

Ed Morrissey

Well, this certainly turned out well for Alvin Bragg's office, didn't it? The judge complimented them for withdrawing after the case became completely untenable, but a competent prosecutor would have prevented this from coming to trial in the first place, especially given the "damaging" evidence that his alleged victim was suppressing. Instead, Bragg's office ended up with egg on its collective face while Henley got outed as a amoral sexual predator of an underage girl. 

Can't wait to see what Bragg's team does with Trump in a couple of weeks! Maybe they shouldn't put their pink champagne on ice yet. 

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