NFC East

'Hotel California' Trial Dismissed: Charges Dropped Against 3 Men Accused of Conspiring to Sell Don Henley's Eagles Lyrics

A trial involving Eagles star Don Henley, in which three men were accused of unlawfully conspiring to obtain and sell handwritten song drafts from the band’s blockbuster album Hotel California, was abruptly dismissed by prosecutors on March 6. At issue: more than 6,000 pages of documents that Henley and his lawyers had previously withheld from both prosecutors and defense attorneys, with a judge claiming that prosecutors “were apparently manipulated.” It serves as a strange end to an equally strange case. The three defendants in the case, Glenn Horowitz, Craig Inciardi and Edward Kosinski, wer…