“This case is a sick case. It is a tragedy and a travesty of justice,” Weitzman told jurors during the trial.
On a day when his lawyer delivered a particularly blistering cross-examination of an FBI agent, DeLorean told reporters, “All I can say is I thank God for Howard Weitzman.”
Weitzman’s news conferences on the courtroom steps during the trial brought him a nationwide audience, and the admiration of reporters, which would last for the rest of his career.
“He helpfully puts his more obscure courtroom questions into context, indicates his current strategy and delivers small homilies on the dangers of a government entrapment operation gone wild,” the Washington Post said at the time.
Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies
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Howard Weitzman, lawyer for Jackson, Bieber, DeLorean, dies
ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer
April 8, 2021
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1of3FILE - Howard Weitzman, attorney for Paris Hilton, leaves the Los Angeles Municipal Court Metropolitan branch on May 4, 2007. Weitzman, an attorney in decades of front-page trials whose clients included Hilton, Michael Jackson, Justin Bieber and auto maker John DeLorean, has died. Weitzman s wife says he died Wednesday, April 8, 2021, after a brief illness. He was 81.Damian Dovarganes/APShow MoreShow Less
2of3FILE - Howard Weitzman, attorney for Michael Jackson, answers questions at a Los Angeles news conference on Nov. 15, 1993. Weitzman, an attorney in decades of front-page trials whose clients included Jackson, Justin Bieber, and auto maker John DeLorean, has died. Weitzman s wife says he died Wednesday, April 8, 2021, after a brief illness. He was 81.Lois Bernstein/APShow MoreShow Less