She is perhaps best known as the attorney for the parents of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose St. And Bollea, 62, who is expected to testify, has received the judge's permission to wear a "plain bandana" to court, a toned-down version of his signature Hulk Hogan costume.Įven the judge, Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge Pamela Campbell, has had her own brush with celebrity.
Jurors will be shown the sex tape, though it will be off-limits to the press and the audience in the courtroom.
HULK HOGAN TAPE GAWKER TRIAL
"This is a lot of excitement for a small courthouse," said Catherine Cameron, a professor of media law at Stetson University.Īpart from a judge's ruling that Hogan go by his real name, Terry Bollea, the trial has the makings of a choreographed fight. Here, in a community still known as a retirement destination, a jury of Gawker's peers will decide whether its decision to publish the tape, along with an unfavorable review of the Hulkster's performance, constituted a violation of privacy. Petersburg, an incongruous setting for a case that primarily interests First Amendment buffs, New York City news media and wrestling fans.
It is now at the center of a $100 million defamation lawsuit brought by Hogan that goes to trial this week in downtown St.
But years later, that sex tape resurfaced online, published as a one minute and 41 second excerpt by the New York-based news and gossip website Gawker.
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