Writing Samples for March 7, 2016

FROM JUNE 22, 1999

(OTS)
A WEST LOS ANGELES HOTEL IS GETTING A 20 MILLION DOLLAR MAKEOVER.

THE WESTWOOD MARQUIS HOTEL AND GARDENS WILL HAVE A NEW, YOUNGER LOOK IN ORDER TO ATTRACT A YOUNGER CROWD.

(VO)
THE EXTERIOR OF THE BUILDING WILL GO FROM BEIGE TO A METALLIC SILVER.

INSIDE, GUESTS WILL SEE OVERSIZED FURNITURE AND A QUARTER OF THE ROOS WILL HAVE A HOME OFFICE.

THE NEW LOOK HOTEL WILL HAVE A NEW NAME:  THE W LOS ANGELES WESTWOOD.

THAT COMES AFTER STARWOOD HOTELS AND RESORTS TOOK OVER THE PROPERTY.

THE HOTEL WILL REMAIN OPEN AS REMODELING WILL BE COMPLETE BY DECEMBER.

FROM MARCH 7, 2016

A NASHVILLE JURY AWARDED FOX SPORTS REPORTER ERIN ANDREWS 55 MILLION DOLLARS IN A LAWSUIT AGAINST A STALKER AND A MAJOR HOTEL.

SHE SUED THE MAN WHO SECRETLY RECORDED HER NAKED AND THE MARIOTT AT VANDERBILT FOR 75 MILLION.

MICHAEL DAVID BARRETT RECORDED ANDREWS IN THE BUFF THROUGH A PEEPHOLE NEXT DOOR BACK IN 2008. 

THE INCIDENT HAPPENED WHEN ANDREWS WORKED FOR E-S-P-N.

LAST WEEK, SHE WAS IN TEARS TESTIFYING HOW HUMILIATING IT WAS FOR HER TO BE NAKED ON THE INTERNET.

(ON CAM)

THE D-A'S CASE AGAINST AN ACCUSED KILLER IS NO LONGER IN JEOPARDY.

(VO)

THE STATE SUPREME COURT UPHELD A RULING THAT SAYS GEARY OTIS CANNOT BE RETRIED FOR MURDER BECAUSE OF DOUBLE JEOPARDY.

A JUDGE MISTAKENLY DECLARED A MISTRIAL IN THE MISTER OTIS' MURDER TRIAL.

HE WAS ACCUSED OF STABBING 75-YEAR-OLD MARY OLIVER TO DEATH NEARLY THREE YEARS AGO.

THE VICTIM'S DAUGHTER IS ANGRY AND A LAW PROFESSOR TALKS ABOUT THE TECHNICALITY.

(SOT)

JAN JACOBS/VICTIM'S DAUGHTER

32.42 - I feel like a person got away with murder.

MICHAEL MEARS/JOHN MARSHALL LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR

34.50 - At that point he had been placed in jeopardy.  And at that point, without the defendant causing it, there was no basis for a mis-trial.

((MORE VO))

OTIS WILL BE RELEASED FROM THE FULTON COUNTY JAIL WHERE HE'S BEEN HELD FOR THREE YEARS WITHIN THE NEXT TWO WEEKS.