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Judge Seidlin "Very Impressed" with Birkhead

Judge Larry Seidlin finished a long, contentious day in court just moments ago, proclaiming himself "very impressed" with Larry Birkhead's testimony, and adding that Birkhead had "put a lot of meat" on the bones of the Anna Nicole Smith body-disposition case. Seidlin quite pointedly didn't make similar remarks after Howard K. Stern vacated the witness stand.

The judge said that Birkhead would continue to testify tomorrow, starting at 10:30 a.m. EST, and that he wanted the respective litigants' attorneys to submit their recommendations for judgment in the case tomorro by 5 p.m. Seidlin has maintained that he will render his judgment or, as he likes to put it, "fashion a remedy," for the conflict by Friday morning.

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61. There's impeachment of Larry to come. Remember, he signed 3 confidentiality agreements with Anna. On one, he said he would pay her 10 million if he ever talked about her. It will be interesting how he answers that.

Posted at 7:17PM on Feb 21st 2007 by opi

62. I am very impressed with Larry too. If he is not the father, he should be!

Posted at 7:22PM on Feb 21st 2007 by jilly_k

63. Larry was such a gentleman!!!! He only said what he had to in order to make the point but he didn't go overboard like I would have in his shoes! - I hope he can get that baby very soon.

Posted at 7:15PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Libby

64. I was relieved to hear Larry say that he was concerned about Anna Nicole's drug use and how it effected the baby. I was wondering if anyone had the balls to tell her to lay off the drugs while preganant.

Unfortunately she dumped the one guy who cared and fled the country with her enabler/dealer/pimp.

I hope Larry can get the DNA evidence and the Bahamas allows Dannielynn to be turned over to her real Daddy.

Posted at 7:16PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Patti

65. DID ANYONE ELSE NOTICE?...HKS just left his DNA!!!!!!!! Larry has the cup that Howard drank a gallon of water from!!!!!!! :)

Posted at 7:15PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Indy-anna

66. oh, and who is the dude from South Carolina?????

Posted at 7:15PM on Feb 21st 2007 by jilly_k

67. I thought Larry was great. Out of all of them, he is the only one who did not directly profit off of Anna's death. And he explained why he did not marry her when she wnated him to. I think his was the only honest testimony.

Posted at 7:16PM on Feb 21st 2007 by julia

68. howard didn't care that anna took drugs while preggie...cause he knew it wasn't his. plain & simple. maybe he was hoping she would miscarry again.

Posted at 7:20PM on Feb 21st 2007 by GIGI

69. Larry=Kato Kaelin, if he is so sweet and upright why did he find such a snake for an attorney who is unethical and inappropriate, calling Howard every name and slandering him in the media as all of you are, pretty huge accusation to call a guy a murderer just because he was int eh life one 2 people that died, so if Larry and vergie were still in her life would you call them murderers too?

Also, Larry hooks up with the worst mother on the planet vergie, another move that does not make him too sympathetic to me, if he know or cared for Anna he would not cozy up to he person she hated the most who she cut off after years of being hit up for money by her and her camp of white trash illiterate, lazy bums who either don't work or aspire to driving buses and woreking in donut shops and haivgn mens babies to pay the bills, any one there ever hear fo school or education?

Why shoudl Howard suybmit, they moved there so he could be the father, its what Anna wanted, you love Anna so much well that is what she wanted. Would you submit to a test just because someone with no legal right to wanted youy to? He is dealing with his own grief. He seems to have a perfectly normal nice family, hey at least they are all on speaking terms and they at least instilled in him the value of an education, maybe with him the baby has a shot at growing up to get eduicated and learn how to add and subtract unlike her grandma and how to make a living without taking her clothes off unlike her mom.

All of you who puport to love anna so much but have no respect for her wishes which clearly were that she be buried next to her son in the bahamas far away from her hillbilly user white rash relatives and that howard be the father of her baby, those were her wishes, clear as day...so you can't say you loved her or care about her and then have no respect for what she wanted, then you are as big a hypocrite as Vergie and all the rest of the moneysucking leeches.

The baby should not have any claim to J Howards money hough, let the real father pay for his baby like a real man should

Posted at 7:20PM on Feb 21st 2007 by B rud

70. Even though we may all love LB, at the end of the day, he still does not have Danielynne, judge is NOT going to force the paternity test, and appears that due to ANS's love for Danny (all concurred), she will be laid to rest in the Bahamas.... just don't see an order coming down to seperate them or exhume him. Unfortunate, but my prediction

Posted at 7:15PM on Feb 21st 2007 by zz

71. I think the south carolina dud is the rich guy anna hooked up with. the one who's house she was living in in the bahamas.

Posted at 7:16PM on Feb 21st 2007 by julia

72. I think the south carolina dud is the rich guy anna hooked up with. the one who's house she was living in in the bahamas.

Posted at 7:16PM on Feb 21st 2007 by julia

73. A REAL JUDGE WOULD OF SLAPPED A CONTEMPT CHARGE AGAINST MS. OPRI SO FAST IT WOULD HAVE MADE HER HEAD SPIN.
SHE IS RUDE AS HE--........DISRESPECTFUL.
SHE EVEN CALLED HKS A KILLER YESTERDAY.
SHE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUT IN HER PLACE BY THE JUDGE, RIGHT THEN AND THERE. HE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN CONTROL OF HIS COURTROOM FROM DAY ONE. DO NOT CALL THIS JUDGE BY HIS NAME, HE JUST WANTS THE LIMELIGHT. 'I REFUSE TO GIVE IT TO HIM.' SO UNPROFESSIONAL ON EVERY LEVEL.

Posted at 7:16PM on Feb 21st 2007 by South Florida

74. I don't like the judge. I could tell he was already leaning toward the "real father" and the mother, but he may have changed his mind about Vergie. What a bitch. No wonder Anna was so screwed up. Her mother is very controlling.
This judge wanted to be hooked up with this case so he can get his own show. You watch, he'll get a show.

Posted at 7:16PM on Feb 21st 2007 by Traci

75. If the lawyers or larry is looking at this, bring up that Hugh Hefner has a plot for ANS by Marilyn, hopefully he will get Daniel one too..
Maybe someone will donate one....

Mr. Thompson can you get one?

Posted at 7:22PM on Feb 21st 2007 by My Boy Larry!

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