No mistrial for Pellicano co-defendant

April 15, 2008 A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a motion for a mistrial in the government's case against former LAPD sergeant Mark Arneson, a co-defendant in the wiretapping and racketeering trial of Hollywood super spy Anthony Pellicano. In an emergency hearing, U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer ruled that there was not a deliberate attempt by federal prosecutors to reveal to jurors that Arneson was the subject of a police internal affairs investigation in 1999. The judge ruled on the motion after an emergency hearing in which jurors were dismissed for the day and Arneson's attorney, Chad Hummel, called several witnesses, including the two lead federal prosecutors in the case.

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