Brent Corrigan Takes The Stand
Brent Corrigan stopped the show of a different kind today when the Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. excused the entire jury to warn Corrigan than he had made "potentially incriminating" statements shortly following Corrigan taking the stand in Harlow Cuadra's trial for the murder of Cobra Video owner, Bryan Kocis. Corrigan was answering the prosection's questions about his work in adult entertainment when he admitted under oath that he had provided false identification and performed in adult films as a minor. The judge stopped the proceeding to give Corrigan the option of speaking to a lawyer. Corrigan declined.
The Times Leader reported Corrigan was nearly sobbing as he described walking along a San Diego beach on April 27, 2007, where Cuadra and partner Joe Kerekes were "opening up" about the murder. Corrigan testified, "Cuadra dropped back, he touched my arm and he said, 'Don't worry, it was quick, he went quick.'"
Corrigan's partner, Grant Roy, is the next expected to testify.
HandJTrial reports that PPO issued an order that Corrigan and Roy are not allowed to speak to each other over the weekend.
posted by Jason Sechrest at 10:58 PM
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People who thought Harlow innocent are probably feeling like idiots right now:
Letter details Cuadra’s anxieties
Homicide suspect Harlow Cuadra didn’t want any pictures of himself wearing jeans posted on Web sites. He also praised the fact that his self-given nickname, “The Stud Wonder,” was removed from his Web site, boybatter.com.
The revelations came in a six-page letter Cuadra, 27, wrote to his friend Renee Martin in October 2007.
Assistant district attorneys Michael Melnick, Shannon Crake and Allyson Kacmarski are expected to call Martin to testify this week about the letter and phone calls she allegedly arranged between Cuadra and his partner, Joseph Kerekes.
Court records indicate Martin, of Texas, received a subpoena in December from the District Attorney’s Office.
Cuadra is facing the death penalty if convicted by a jury in the murder of gay pornographic movie producer Bryan Kocis, 44, at Kocis’ home in Dallas Township on Jan. 24, 2007. His trial before Judge Peter Paul Olszewski Jr. is entering its sixth day of testimony today.
Cuadra’s partner, Joseph Kerekes, 35, pleaded guilty in December to second-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors have called 41 witnesses since Cuadra’s trial began last Tuesday.
In his letter, Cuadra wrote “The Plan” by “obtaining the means to hire attorneys that can tell a good story. That’s all this comes down to.”
Cuadra also recommended a public-image campaign to “make gossip that would help us,” and, “make false fact gossip like the stupid $1 million dollar motive,” according to the letter.
He also wrote, “Please, none of those fat pics. Remember it’s the jeans that made me look like I have a fat ass, not my fat ass that makes those jeans look fat.”
Cuadra also suggested “cleaning Joe’s (Kerekes) image, the hard edges need to be filed down. His blog needs to be cleaned up a lot. Positive spin needs to be turned on.”
Cuadra wanted nice suits to wear in court because, “a good-looking defendant is harder to sentence … that business look with contrasting happy ties would be just right.” He recommended light-colored suits and said gray, dark blue and black suits “are a no, no” and wanted office-looking, lace-up shoes.
“Image matters a lot. Notice all the close ups of my face? Yeah, they use that youth killer look to make those papers fly from the stand. Thank God I shaved,” Cuadra wrote.
Cuadra wrote in the letter that his life was threatened at the Luzerne County Correctional Facility by “some gangsters,” and had to face “the leader of the North Eastern PA Latin Kings” every time he was jailed at the county correctional facility.
Latin Kings is a Hispanic street gang.
Cuadra was formerly jailed at the Lackawanna County Prison and is currently jailed at the county correctional facility for the trial.
“If convicted would I survive the years it would take for the appeal process to go through? If it did? Joe (Kerekes) sent me a note while in Luzerne (county correctional facility) ‘Baby, you sound so sure of victory, like case closed, but are you ready to spend a long time away from me,’ ” Cuadra wrote.
Cuadra said he was writing to his regular “pen pals” to attend at least two days of the trial, and urged them to “buy and wear a free Harlow T-shirt to court.”
“I have also taken prayer a little more seriously … completing this practical plan is definitely appreciated,” Cuadra ended his letter.
Are you out of your mind??? Since when is it a crime to hone your public image while on trial? Every good law firm has public relations reps on retainer for that reason. When the media covers a trial, it is imperative that positive spin is put on public image -- and who wouldn't suggest that for a porn star? People will automatically see him as "dirty." Especially in one of the most conservative town in America where he is being tried.
It seems to me you need a reminder that this is America where we are innocent until proven guilty. Not "probably guilty" until proven guilty. But INNOCENT. ...As of right now, you're the only one looking like an idiot.
Yeah, call me crazy, but planting "false fact gossip" in blogs and hiring an attorney able "to tell a good story" tells me Harlow's is not exactly a paragon of honesty.
And those who thought otherwise are looking very foolish...and will look doubly so once the guilty verdicts roll in!
If you read it properly, you will see that he is saying he needs to plant false facts and create a good story to combat the false facts and ridiculous story the prosecution put about about the million dollar motive. No one in porn believes they can make a million dollars off one star. It's a stupid story that only people not in porn would buy. He has to combat it with public image and a story of his own.
Paragon of honesty doesn't exactly involve forging fake identification either.
Being dishonest does not make someone a killer.
My God man you just want the kid to fry.
I hope you will feel better about yourself should that happen to him. At least something good will come of this.
"My God man you just want the kid to fry."
He's 27. Hardly a "kid" despite his propaganda campaign into deluding people into think he's so sweet and innocent.
And I could care less what sentence he gets. His partner Joe admitted they did the crime and got life in prison in a plea deal; if he gets something around that I think justice will be served.
And if he gets death...well, all the people who urged him to take this thing to trial will have to bear the guilt for that result.
Which wont be me obviously!
Luzerne County Prosecutors filed a motion to prevent Harlow Cuadra and Joseph Kerekes from referring to the fact that Bryan Kocis' 2002 guilty plea was completely changed in 2006.
If Cuadra does manage to bring up Bryan Kocis' 2002 guilty plea being completely changed in 2006, that would likely create a big enough conflict of interest for Prosecutors that Luzerne County Prosecutors would be required to step down from prosecuting Cuadra AND throw out Joseph Kerekes' guilty plea.
The Luzerne County DA's Office was a party to changing Kocis' 2002 guilty plea in 2006 and, there is criminality involved if Prosecutors improperly helped Kocis evade the requirements of Megans Law. One could even speculate that a Dead Bryan Kocis could not testify against the people who may have helped him improperly evade Megans Law.
The Point here being that it should not be possible to make an argument that Prosecutors had a motive to want the victim dead when those prosecutor are prosecuting someone else for the victim's murder.
Also, the Number 1 reason why only Cuadra and Kerekes were charged with Kocis' murder is, more likely than not, the fact that Prosecutors most assuredly could not have kept Bryan Kocis' past and his 2002 guilty plea out of a Lockhart / Roy trial.
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