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Published: Thu, 22 Oct 2009
Description: Possible leak leads to mistrial in Travolta extortion case
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" Actor John Travolta may have to re live again the final moments of his son's life revisit the scene of his death. And recount the whole idea details of an alleged extortion plot that followed. The trial of two people accuse of trying to blackmail the actor has ended in a mistrial. Remember John Travolta's sixteen year old son Jett died in January after seizure. He was with his family in their vacation home in the Bahamas. Prosecutors say one of the paramedics who first worked on the boy kept the legal document from the family. They say he and a former -- senator threatened to release that document unless the Travolta family paid them 25 million dollars. They both pleaded not guilty. Chief fox report correspondent Jonathan Hunt has that he is he's live in your newsroom what what triggered this mistrial."
" We'll show that former senate so pleasant bridge -- is a member of the progressive Liberal Party. They happen to be having their annual party convention yesterday. When one of the members of -- stood up unannounced to the audience that Pleasant Bridgewater had been acquitted listen to this. Pleasant Bridgewater is a free woman he said that would've been fine if indeed she had been equated the problem is. The jury was actually still deliberating that raised the prospect in the judge's eyes of a leak from the jury room she said she had no choice. But to order -- retrial -- well I mean do we know if that's what the jury was about to rule. We don't know that obviously nothing has come after the jurors have not spoken they've been dismissed by the judge. They haven't spoken but legal experts that we've spoken to including including our own judgment platonic said this judge was absolutely right in this decision. -- there was a leak from the jury room -- there wasn't -- nine in that case then the jury may have been influenced ultimately by Walt that gentleman said. Publicly so either way according to legal experts they have no choice but to order -- retrial -- All right what happens now we now. Well we get to another trial at some point it's unclear when that will happen unlikely to be this yeah. So -- John Travolta. He has to go through all of this again clearly checked for anybody who's lost a child there is never any closure but he at least the whole. That he was coming to the end of one chapter in this. All full deal now he has to -- middle once again -- Jonathan Hunt in our New York newsroom Jonathan thank."
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