Law360, New York (August 20, 2012, 10:08 PM ET) -- The director of Hollywood blockbusters "Die Hard" and "Predator" on Monday lost a bid to reverse his guilty plea for making false statements to the FBI, after the Ninth Circuit ruled a lower court judge had properly denied his bid to suppress damning evidence in the case.
In a published opinion, a three-judge panel said an incriminating recording of a phone conversation between defendant John McTiernan and his former private investigator Anthony Pellicano was valid evidence because McTiernan had failed to prove that the recording at...