NBC resolves lawsuit over 'To Catch a Predator' suicide

[Amerigo Vespucci]

NBC resolves lawsuit over 'To Catch a Predator' suicide

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/06/nbc-resolves-la.html

NEW YORK — NBC Universal has “amicably resolved” a $105-million lawsuit filed by a woman whose brother committed suicide during a taping of its controversial “Dateline NBC” series “To Catch a Predator,” both parties said today.

Bruce Baron, an attorney for Patricia Conradt, told The Times in an interview today that “the matter has been amicably resolved to the satisfaction of both parties.”

Conradt’s brother, Louis William Conradt Jr., a 56-year-old assistant county prosecutor in a Dallas suburb, shot himself in November 2006 when officers showed up at his house as part of a pedophilia sting arranged by “Dateline.”

Patricia Conradt sued NBC last July, claiming that the network interfered with police duties and then failed to protect her brother's safety.

[Common Sense Party]

1. My brother, the lawyer, thought he was grooming a teenager for sex

But instead it was some people working for NBC. NBC showed up to film the cops trying to arrest my brother, and he shot himself, rather than go to jail for wanting to have sex with a minor. So, now NBC has to pay me, his sister, $100 million dollars.

Got it?

Pay up.

[varkam]

4. Perhaps the death could of been prevented...

if it were a straight-up LEO operation, but it wasn't.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

2. Couldn't have happened to a better bunch of slimeballs. Hit 'em where it hurts. -nt

[NYC_SKP]

3. That show....disgusting.

The sting, arrests, I'm fine with that.

NBC filming it and broadcasting it for profit? Disgusting.

The lawsuit? No worse than NBC.