After months of hearing from Riley Perez, Joe Francis finally gets a tip from an unlikely source that could lead him to the perpetrator. But as the justice system starts to close in, Joe faces some legal troubles of his own. Click ‘Subscribe’ at the top of the Infamous show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices A Campside Media & Sony Music Entertainment production. To connect with Infamous's creative team and gain access to behind the scenes content, join our community at Campsidemedia.com/join Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Who is Riley Perez and what role does he play in the story?
Joe's dealing with the criminal charges regarding the girls at the Chateau Motel, but they're also bringing a civil suit, meaning they want money. And when Joe gets into mediation with the Chateau Motel's girls' lawyers, things get very wild and not at all in a good way. According to David's book, it's March 21st, 2007. Yeah, the 2003 case has gone on this long.
So Joe's at the Bay Point Marriott in Panama City Beach, and he's finally trying to settle the civil suit. He's sitting at a table, shorts, baseball cap, playing a handheld video game, and the lawyers come in. He announces to them that they aren't going to get a dime.
I think he said something along the lines of, here's my offer, you can suck my dick.
I was only in a room with... The thing is, when the judge heard this, he upped the tension.
Because he ordered Joe back to mediation or else. David's paper had a particular way of putting it, which made it sound pretty definitive, even if the judge didn't quite mean it that way.
The headline was, Judge Tells Joe Francis Settle or Jail. And that right there told everybody else in the nation that this judge is very sympathetic.
In other words, lawyers all across the South may have thought, huh, I could bring a case against this guy, that's for sure. But in this moment, even though the judge has said that Joe Francis should do meaningful mediation, you can guess that Joe's next attempt at mediation doesn't go much better than the first.
He even tells the Associated Press, in his fury, that he's stuck in a case of judges go wild.
Sure, starting here.
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