Ex-Edwards Aide Turns Over Claimed Sex Tape, as Lawyers Argue On in Privacy Case
After legal wrangling over whether Andrew Young would be accompanied by a security officer, the onetime aide to ex-presidential candidate John Edwards has retrieved his original copy of a purported sex tape of Edwards and his former mistress from a bank safe deposit box and turned it over to a North Carolina court.
After Young did so, the North Carolina Court of Appeals suspended an order by the trial court judge that a security officer had to accompany Young, the Charlotte Observer reports.
State Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones is overseeing a privacy case filed by former Edwards mistress Rielle Hunter, who is seeking to prevent the sale of the DVD and digital photographs of herself and her daughter by Edwards.
Lawyers for both sides are now arguing about whether the appellate order applied only to the collection of the purported sex tape or stayed all proceedings in the case.
Earlier coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Ex-John Edwards Aide Turns Over Copy of Sex Tape, Is Held in Contempt in Privacy Case”
