LOS ANGELES — Terry Christensen, the lawyer who recently was convicted on federal wiretapping charges, should not get a new trial on the grounds that a federal judge removed a juror the day before the verdict was reached, according to court papers filed this month by federal prosecutors.
Christensen, the former managing partner of what is now Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs & Shapiro, in Los Angeles, was convicted in August on two counts of wiretapping charges. Prosecutors had alleged that Christensen paid private investigator Anthony Pellicano more than $100,000 to wiretap the phones of Lisa Bonder Kerkorian, the ex-wife of his client, billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, during a high-profile custody dispute.
