Asked by a prosecutor about the sixth check he wrote for sex, Sheen deadpanned, "It's starting to add up. Sheen, who is engaged, issued a statement after the court session saying, "I apologize to my family, my future wife and my close friends for any embarrassment these incidents may have caused. Sheen testified under a limited grant of immunity. None of his testimony could be used if the state chose to prosecute him for solicitation. He was allowed to testify on videotape because he is in Virginia.
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Deseret News homepage. Filed under:. Reddit Pocket Email Linkedin. Sign up for the newsletter Utah Today Start your day with the top stories you missed while you were sleeping. Thanks for signing up! Check your inbox for a welcome email. Email address required. First Name. Close to Heidi in both looks and age, Shana has said that her relationship with her famous sister has been a complicated one, involving both the hero-worship of a shy kid sister and the resentment of a middle child who believed her mother loved Heidi best.
As a teen-ager, she was crippled in a Jeep accident in which Heidi was at the wheel. But when Heidi was arrested and later mobbed by the press, it was Shana who refused to leave her side. In December, three days after Shana was granted immunity, she signed a seven-page sworn statement for the government.
Shana--now nervous, gaunt and enrolled in a methadone program--was to have been a key witness for the prosecution, Holscher told the judge. But early this week, when she was called to the stand, Shana crumbled before the jury, weeping and mumbling incoherently as she sought to make eye contact with her big sister, who sat somberly looking at her hands.
When her mother, schoolteacher Elissa Fleiss, walked into the courtroom, Shana began to sob. The mother was ushered out--as a potential defense witness she was not supposed to have been in court anyway. But Shana never regained her composure, and, after several questions that elicited only elliptical answers, she finally cried out that she was not only unable to collect herself, but unable to testify against Heidi at all.
By Thursday, she had announced that she had changed lawyers and was taking back her promise to testify. But the move left U. District Judge Consuelo B. Marshall no choice but to place her in contempt of court, and the argument over her punishment ended in a shouting match. Judge Marshall eventually ordered Shana confined to her home, where she is to be electronically monitored. But her state trial--which earned her a three-year prison sentence--came and went last year without the revelation of a single name.
Fleiss, as it turned out, had taken checks, and to prove their case against her, federal prosecutors subpoenaed several of the men on whose accounts they were drawn. Prosecutors say they have checks from at least 10 customers, but so far, only three have testified, all under a grant of limited immunity: former Denver Nuggets owner Sidney Shlenker, Mexican businessman Manuel Santos and, on Thursday, actor Sheen, who is, so far, the best known.
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