Her trial began Monday in Nashville in Circuit Judge Hamilton Gayden’s courtroom.
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Andrews filed a lawsuit over a 2008 incident where Michael Barrett tampered with the peephole in the sports broadcaster’s Nashville Marriott at Vanderbilt hotel room so he could record nude images of her.
Barrett was sentenced to 30 months in prison in 2011 for taking the video.
Andrews is seeking $75 million in damages after a man was able to get a hotel room next to hers and film her through a peephole he made in the wall back in 2008.
The current trial is not expected to exceed two weeks.
Erin Andrews, at the time the videos were uploaded online, was employed with ESPN and was in Nashville for a football game.
His operation was the same at each, according to Dedman: Barrett would call the hotel and say he needed to confirm a reservation, and when asked for a number or a name, he would say, “Jeff, Scott and Erin Andrews”. Barrett has previously said he was broke. I, Michael Barrett, want a room next to Erin Andrews.
Attorneys for the hotel and Andrews delivered their opening statements, revealing several issues jurors will have to consider.
Kinnard told jurors that the secret nude recordings are still online and that Andrews still gets taunted by people who say they have seen the footage.
Barrett could have had even more fiendish plans in asking for a room next to Andrews, Kinnard said.
Barrett, he said, had gotten himself in financial trouble and filmed the videos of Andrews to make money. According to court documents, Barrett then uploaded the videos onto the Internet.
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Andrews wiped tears from her eyes as Kinnard showed video taken of the inside of her room.
