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“I don’t think this case is a complex case, but I think it’s a very interesting case, and it’s one I think the jurors would enjoy,” Judge Carney said as he painstakingly edited the statement of the case set to be delivered to the jury pool at the outset of the selection process. “I’d like them to know this is the case before they think about whether they want to get off the case or not.
“The neck tattoo is removed; the arm is repositioned; the lighting and shadowing is manipulated to fit the interior of the limousine; the image is tilted to match the forward-leaning posture of the model’s body; the image is tinted, shaded, and re-colored to fit the overall scheme of the underlying photo used in the ; and the periphery fades to black,” her filings in the case state.
Once that change was made, Cardi’s lawyer Alan Dowling persuaded the judge to edit a subsequent line. The new line says that according to Cardi, Brophy “is not the man depicted in the image, that the image does not portray actual sexual activity that defendants’ use of his tattoo design did not show plaintiff in a false light or would be highly offensive to a reasonable person in plaintiff’s position.