Sirhan's more recent counsel has accused Cooper of deliberately throwing the Sirhan case as the result of a then-pending indictment against Cooper for possessing stolen transcripts of the grand jury proceedings in the Beverly Hills  Friar's Club card cheating case.
Sirhan's current defense has suggested that Cooper intentionally compromised the Sirhan case because of a prior pending indictment against Cooper for allegedly misappropriating transcripts from the grand jury proceedings in the high-profile Beverly Hills  Friar's Club card cheating case.