Gage gets himself suppressed

Over in Federal Court, Judge Quackenbush heard pre-trial motions in the trial of alleged corrupt Plaintiff's attorney, Noel Gage. In one of the motions, Defense counsel asked the judge to suppress the newspaper photos of Gage being used by the U.S. Attorney.

The Las Vegas Sun reports:

But what the lawyers found most objectionable was a photo of Gage that popped up
throughout the government’s presentation. It was unflattering, they complained.
They wrote: “It is dark, grainy and at an angle, with Mr. Gage looking sideways, larger than the other head-shot photographs, irrelevant for the trial, and seeks to portray Mr. Gage as a sinister attorney.”

Schiess told the judge that he merely was using a copy of a Las Vegas Review-Journal photo of Gage taken during one of his recent interviews.

Quackenbush, however, apparently found the photo a little scary, too. He ordered the defense attorneys to provide Schiess with a better photo of Gage. It must have made Gage look too good, however, because Schiess decided against using it in his opening statement Thursday.

You gotta love that Defense counsel demanded a photo of their own client be suppressed because it made him look bad. Gage has done a pretty good job at that all by himself.