Actress Nicollette Sheridan arrives at the Court as the process of her wrongful termination lawsuit against "Desperate Housewives" Creator Marc Cherry that remains. (Valerie Macon/Getty Images/14 March 2012)It Was a conspiracy that went all the way to the top of ABC? Or was it the case of an actress from exaggerating for revenge?
Wrongful-termination lawsuit against the creator of Nicollette Sheridan of "Desperate Housewives" and a studio wound to a close Wednesday as jurors heard arguments conclusion vastly different interpretations of the event offer.
If the tall blond looked the balding, bespectacled actress and writer Marc Cherry, who invented the world of Wisteria Lane, of opposite sides of the courtroom, their lawyers discussed for hours about what led to the death of 2008 Sheridan character.
The actress lawyer told jurors that Cherry killed out of bed-hopping real estate broker Edie Britt in the fifth season in retaliation for her complaint that he put her in the head in a dispute over a line of dialogue had beaten.
Lawyer Mark Baute said studio and network executives rushed to conceal Cherry and protect the $ 1-billion "' Desperate Housewives ' money machine."
"It's all about the benjamins for management. It is not about a woman hit in the head, "said Baute.
He repeatedly deleted a human resources-research that Cherry called a "whitewash" and said employees, including high-level executives, who testified that the death was plotted months before their falsified accounts Edie at the booth and the destroyed evidence to aide a powerful Hollywood colleague.
"They all got together and a cute and superficial paper trail that ported their needs," he said. Their message to the Cherry, he said, was, "don't worry, everyone agrees with your version of events, boss man."
Cherry sat motionless as the lawyer called him an "obvious liar" with a vindictive personality. Cherry the lawyer then a opportunity to speak of the jury, he told jurors that Sheridan case brought a word for the spirit.
"Desperate," said Adam Levin lawyer.
He said there was no proof of a conspiracy and noted that 10 witnesses said Cherry decided to kill Edie months before his run-in with Sheridan. He stressed that five of the witnesses no longer worked with Cherry or co-defendant Touchstone television productions, and had no reason to perjure themselves.
"What incentive does [witness and former ABC Entertainment chief] Steve McPherson, who is not even in the entertainment industry more, should guide you?" he asked members of the jury.
Levin showed the jury trial transcripts of testimony in which producers, writers and executives Cherry looking for approval of the studio and the network to kill Edie recalled in May 2008, four months before the incident on set.
Cherry fights he tapped only Sheridan head to show a stage direction, and his lawyer said of Sheridan own phone records suggested that the incident was small.
"Would a reasonable person who felt they were walloped violently hit or check her voicemail?" he asked. He recalled the testimony of an executive producer that Sheridan initially only a bouquet of flowers, barely wanted, he argued, reconciliation for an unprovoked assault.
Sheridan, that $ 4 million per year also as back-end profits earned, is seeking economic damages of 5.7 million dollars. The jury of nine women and three men deliberated less than two hours before departing for the evening.
Harriet.Ryan@latimes.com
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