The trial over ownership of handwritten lyrics of hit Eagles songs like “Hotel California” has been dismissed as new evidence was introduced to the court, including 6,000 pages of emails.
New York prosecutors on Wednesday abruptly dropped the case against three collectibles experts accused of stealing the lyrics pages and attempting to sell them for a profit, per AP News. While dismissing the case, presiding Judge Curtis Farber said “witnesses and their lawyers” used attorney-client privilege “to obfuscate and hide information that they believed would be damaging.”
The trial began in February. Eagles band member Don Henley accused rare books dealer Glenn Horowitz, former Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig Inciardi, and rock memorabilia seller Edward Kosinski of taking the handwritten lyrics and other memorabilia without permission and selling it.
The defendants said…
