John McTiernan gets another shot

October 22, 2008 In March 2006, McTiernan signed a plea agreement admitting that he lied to federal investigators about Pellicano, who the director had hired during a bitter legal battle with producer Chuck Roven over the boxoffice blunder "Rollerball." McTiernan claims he was not informed by his previous attorney that he could have moved to suppress incriminating recordings seized by the government from Pellicano's office. If his guilty plea remains, McTiernan faces four months in federal prison, a two-year supervised release and a $100,000 fine.

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