Celebrity lawyer Michael Avenatti wants to limit the questions he would face if he decides to testify about allegations he tried to extort Nike for millions of dollars.
FILE - In this July 23, 2019, file photo, California attorney Michael Avenatti walks from a courthouse in New York, after facing charges. A Los Angeles amateur basketball league's founder told jurors Thursday, Feb. 6, 2020, that Avenatti betrayed him when the lawyer threatened to make his complaints against Nike public.
Questions about those topics could create “a trial within a trial,” Avenatti's attorneys wrote, and distract the jury tasked with deciding whether Avenatti used his fame to try to extract up to $25 million from Nike with threats of publicizing misdeeds by Nike executives. “While the extortion and honest services fraud crimes with which he is charged in this case are not insignificant, they do not deliver anything close to the emotional gut-punch of the charges against Mr. Avenatti in the other matters,” the defense attorneys wrote. “Even with a limiting instruction, the jury cannot possibly be expected to dispassionately weigh this evidence.”
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