By Shayna Jacobs
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MANHATTAN SUPREME COURT — The extortion and grand larceny case against an ex-CBS producer accused of trying to blackmail David Letterman is valid and will go forward, a Manhattan judge decided on Tuesday.
Supreme Court Justice Charles Solomon denied several requests by Robert Halderman's attorney, who claimed the charges were unconstitutional and sought to invalidate evidence recovered from a search of Halderman's Norwalk, Conn., home, to have the case tossed.
"It is clear that reasonable cause existed to search defendant's home, office, computer and briefcase, and that the warrants themselves were not overbroad," Solomon wrote in his decision.
Halderman is accused of trying to blackmail the "Late Night" host by offering to sell him the rights to an incriminating screenplay that would expose information about Letterman's liaisons with female staffers. When word of the alleged plot broke, Letterman confessed to the trysts on his show.
Last month, Gerald Shargel, Halderman's attorney, argued that Tiger Woods' purported payoffs to women he allegedly had affairs with was proof that Halderman's hush money demand was nothing out of the ordinary in the celebrity world.
The parties are due back in court March 9.
