Anthony Marshall’s Guilty Verdict Will Not Be Thrown Out
Brooke Astor's son just lost one of his Get Out of Jail Free cards.
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Brooke Astor's son just lost one of his Get Out of Jail Free cards.
Yes, he's 85. But his mother lived to 105, so he needs a lot more chances!
Francis Morrissey, who helped Anthony Marshall convince his mother to change her will, was disbarred.
And almost certainly not one to three years.
Brooke Astor's much-reviled daughter-in-law fears her ailing husband is not strong enough to make it to sentencing, let alone prison.
Remember, this is the guy who was convicted of swindling his mother out of her money.
As horrible as the Astor trial looked from the outside, it was worse on the inside.
Anthony and Charlene Marshall owe their lawyers up to 11 million; Philip Marshall says Charlene is the one who should go to jail.
Assistant District Attorney Joel Seidemann's rhetoric against the octogenarian was scathing, and damning.
During the final arguments of the Astor trial, defense lawyers make an inarguable point.
"Much like the woman at the center of it, the Astor trial has had a life longer than anyone could have reasonably expected."
Or a handful of other old preppy people, for that matter.
According to a nurse's testimony, the aging matriarch couldn't sleep over fears her son was trying to kill her — but was also lucid enough to issue some sage advice.