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| | Kelly Soo Park's Independent Counsel Asks For One More Week On Waiver Of Conflict-Of-Interest
By Lonce LaMon - October 18, 2012
Yesterday morning, Wednesday, October 17th 2012, in the cool, crisp morning air of the Downtown Los Angeles, Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center court room of Department 109, Kelly Soo Park sat close to her paramour, Tom Chronister. The retired cop from the Oxnard Police Department was at the exact end of the third bench, while Kelly Soo, his beloved, sat immediately to his right. They were perfectly matched, starkly clad in black.
Their blackness was striking and in contrast to Kelly Soo’s thin, light blue crescent-necked knit top which was hardly exposed beneath her tailored black jacket. Tom’s dark blue jeans enmeshed in with his black jacket and shirt.
Kelly Soo’s beauty was not eclipsed by her reddened, watery eyes concomitant with her pronounced eye bags which fell beneath them. She had been crying.
Her defense counsels were ready in their dark suits as they stood on the other side of the gate. Mark Kassabian paced back and forth. George Buehler stood unperturbed and relaxed.
Buehler and Kassabian are Kelly Soo’s third set of attorneys since her arrest in June of 2010 for the murder of aspiring actress and model, Juliana Redding.
Court was called to session. Eric Harmon wasn’t present. Deputy District Attorney, Stacey Okun-Wiese, was there—she was copiously reading documents. She read with concentration as her blunt cut, layered long hair, which was burgundy red in color, fell to her shoulders.
Judge Kathleen Kennedy, as always, had the front of her robe gaping wide open, showing her scoop necked, dark burgundy top. Her lips were painted red, and she peered out from under her long bangs.
The honorable Judge Kathleen spoke, “What is the status of this conflict?”
Franklin Peters, Jr., at left, is the independent counsel appointed by the court to advise Kelly Soo Park on the conflict-of-interest issue brought up by the DA over the fact she is having her defense paid for by Dr. Uwaydah through one of his companies. © Lonce LaMon, all rights reserved.
Independent counsel, Franklin Peters, Jr., who is advising Kelly Soo Park on the poignant, potential conflict-of-interest in the very real fact that Dr. Munir Uwaydah is paying for her defense, at this moment stated that she signed a waiver which she prepared. One can assume with this statement that he, Peters, well advised Kelly Soo in writing her document and was well involved in the composition of this waiver.
Kelly Soo may have been crying because this very morning starting at 6 am, ABC’s “Good Morning America” program and “Eyewitness News” portion ran segments about her case describing her as a mafia-thug who was as an “enforcer” for Dr. Uwaydah who intimidated, bullied, and roughed-up persons who did not cooperate and pay Dr. Uwaydah according to his demands. Kelly Soo Park was generally described by ABC News-- after reading the District Attorney’s latest documents – as this thug who played the role of Uwaydah's "female James Bond". She was depicted as having gone to Juliana Redding’s apartment in Santa Monica, California, and catching her by surprise after her father, pharmacist Gregory Redding, had backed out of a deal with Dr. Uwaydah just five days earlier. According to the District Attorney, Kelly Soo Park strangled Juliana Redding with her bare hands. Apparently, no one says “no” to Dr. Uwaydah. What Uwaydah wants, Uwaydah gets.
George Buehler, one of Kelly Soo Park's defense counsels, pictured here leaving the courthouse yesterday, October 17th 2012, has stated that he will not abandon Kelly Soo's defense even in light of the potential conflict-of-interest. "I fully expect to remain as counsel. And without any problem of fully representing her interests," he stated back on October 2nd. © Lonce LaMon, all rights reserved.
Kelly Soo together with Ronnie Wayne Case, a race car driver who also worked for Uwaydah, would confront and intimidate with threats anyone who frustrated Dr. Uwaydah’s ambitions. In this instance with Juliana Redding, Kelly Soo carried out her thuggery with murder. And these assertions were all according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s findings, while Eye Witness News and Good Morning America reported upon these allegations.
Thus, it's not a bad idea to assume this may have been the reason why Kelly Soo had been crying. Kelly Soo, the mafia thug, was going beyond breaking knee caps; she had committed murder and it was all being reported by ABC News programs from 6 am to 8 am that very morning.
Kelly Soo stood up and walked up to her attorneys in the tailored cut of her black suit jacket displaying her elegance with her exquisitely slender figure. She looked like a fashion model stepping onto a runway, hardly the image of someone who could strangle the life out of a human with her bare hands. The design of her jacket perfectly chiseled her waistline.
Kelly Soo had crafted this waiver-agreement, signed this waiver of her understanding of the drawbacks of her having Munir Uwaydah, or any of his companies, pay for her defense. But the District Attorney’s office wrote up their own version of the waiver, clearly not wanting to leave the writing fully up to Kelly Soo and Franklin Peters.
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Kelly Soo Park's mother, Irene, pictured here in the reddish-maroon jacket yesterday leaving the courthouse, faithfully attends all of her daughter's court proceedings. © Lonce LaMon, all rights reserved.
The DA had not expressed their intensions to do this in the last court proceedings. But they must have written their own draft because, assumedly, they aren’t going to take any chances with this potential conflict-of-interest. They will not compromise a verdict. And this is why they wrote a waiver document the way they want it.
There was specifically one additional line that was part of the District Attorney’s version of the waiver that was not included in the version from Kelly Soo and Franklin Peters. So now, Franklin Peters is asking the court for another week to explain to Kelly Soo the meaning and implications of this additional line written by the District Attorneys. The court has agreed.
Court will reconvene in one week’s time on October 24th, Wednesday, 2012 at 8:30 am. The place is the usual: at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center on 210 W. Temple Street in Downtown, Los Angeles in Department 109, the ninth floor.
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