Perhaps knowing that things aren’t looking great for her at trial, and apparently against the advice of her attorney, accused Los Gatos “party mom” Shannon O’Connor reached out to several news outlets to offer some of her own side of her story.
Could it be a hail mary to seek public support, or a calculated attempt to taint the jury and get a mistrial? Who can say? But Shannon O’Connor apparently made multiple recent phone calls from jail to multiple news outlets in an attempt to get her side of the story out there. The calls apparently happened before Christmas, just after the court recessed following the opening days of O’Connor’s trial on 63 counts that include child endangerment and furnishing alcohol to minors.
The Mercury News published parts of their interview on December 31, based on two 15-minute phone calls on December 23. In that interview, O’Connor tried to deflect blame for the alcohol-fueled parties she hosted at her Los Gatos home and elsewhere in the fall of 2020 and spring of 2021, suggesting that other parents were letting the teens drink during the pandemic as well and she wasn’t aware of the full extent of their consumption…