On December 14, Bennett issued a statement in which she said she hoped her husband "will not be blamed too much" for wounding her agent. She read the prepared statement in the bedroom of her home to a group of newspapermen while TV cameras recorded the scene. Wanger's attorney, Jerry Giesler, mounted a "temporary insanity" defense. Wanger then decided to waive his rights to a jury and threw himself on the mercy of the court. He served a four-month sentence in the County Honor Farm at Castaic, 39 miles north of Downtown Los Angeles, quickly returning to his career to make a series of successful films. During this time period Walter Mirisch of Allied Artists had Wanger's name put on "Kansas Pacific" (1953) as a producer, although he was still in prison. This allowed Wanger to receive a producer's billing, salary and profit participation. The entire experience with the criminal charges and jail sentence affected Wanger profoundly, and in 1954 he made the prison film "Riot in Cell Block 11".