Sam Haskell, the Hollywood super-agent’s son accused of killing his wife Mei and cutting up her body, made a brief, bare-chested appearance in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom Friday.
Charges against him
The heavily tattooed 35-year-old – who is also charged with murdering Mei’s parents – is on suicide watch in the LAPD’s Valley Jail in Van Nuys.
The Velcro straps on the special gown he was wearing came undone, allowing it to slip down, a court deputy explained to DailyMail.com after the hearing.
Haskell was scheduled Friday for arraignment and to enter a guilty or not guilty plea on the three murder charges he is facing.
But LA Superior Court Judge Kimberley, Baker Guillemet continued the arraignment and plea till January 12 at the request of Haskell’s new attorney Joseph Weimortz, who has just been hired and said he needed time to familiarize himself with the case.
Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman objected to the continuance, telling the court, ‘We’re opposed to putting this over for another six weeks.’
He was remanded without bail back to jail.
Death penalty is lurking..
Haskell, who could face the death penalty if convicted, was arrested after the headless torso of a woman – believed to be his Chinese-born wife Mei, 37 – was found in a dumpster near his office in Encino, northwest of LA, last month.
He was charged with murdering Mei and also killing her parents, mother Yanking Wang, 64 and father, Gaoshan Li, 72, who are both still missing.
Mei’s friends have told DailyMail.com she had wanted to divorce Haskell for at least four years, but feared his powerful agent father would persuade courts to give him custody of their three sons, aged six, eight and 12.
