Jury sees Andrews video
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — A jury on Thursday viewed nude videos that a stalker secretly recorded of sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews.
Jurors were somber as they watched the footage, with one woman at times turning away from the projector. Andrews tearfully left the courtroom right before the videos were shown.
Michael David Barrett was sentenced to 2½ years in prison after admitting to stalking Andrews in three different cities, altering peepholes in hotel rooms and secretly recording nude videos.
Andrews has filed a $75 million lawsuit against Barrett, West End Hotel Partners, which is the franchise owner of the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University, and Windsor Capital Group, which manages the hotel.
On Wednesday, the sportscaster’s father testified that Andrews vomited before reluctantly agreeing to watch the videos with the FBI.
Jurors in Davidson County Circuit Court in Nashville saw 4 1/2 minutes of video taken at the Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt University in September 2008. They also viewed a video from a hotel in Columbus, Ohio.
A computer science professor said a conservative estimate is that at least 16.8 million people have viewed part of the footage.
