Last week's briefcase issue and a lawyer arrest have not been enough of a sideshow to stop the ongoing, drama-filled DJ defamation lawsuit trial - so far.

After a request for a mistrial from Bubba the Love Sponge Clem's attorneys was denied Monday in court, Judge James Arnold continued court proceedings although he has not ruled on the Friday request for a mistrial from Todd "MJ" Schnitt's attorneys.

The lawsuit filed by Schnitt against Clem and resulting trial already had plenty of drama, but, last week, the event turned into a real-live soap opera.

On Monday, Clem's attorney Stephen Diaco said the media exposure has compromised the case and is keeping Clem from getting a fair trial. Arnold said that he saw no wrongdoing on the part of any of the lawyers in the case.

Jurors have been pulled from the courtroom each time Arnold and both teams' lawyers discuss a mistrial.

After the delay Monday, former Clear Channel CEO Randy Michaels took the stand for hours, talking about bad blood between two of his former employees, Bubba Clem and Todd “MJ” Schnitt.

He listened to several clips of Bubba trash talking the Schnitts. He told the jury he never saw anything wrong with it.

“I saw a big funhouse mirror. I mean, that’s classic," he said. "Classic to go on the air and say I’ve got three people calling in to say something about Mrs. Schnitt. What’s classic is he didn’t say anything and made it entertaining. It’s a cartoon!”

Arnold took up a number of issues Friday afternoon stemming from MJ attorney Charles Philip Campbell's Wednesday night DUI arrest.

Schnitt's team hinted that Campbell's DUI was a setup - that Melissa Personius, a paralegal for Diaco, met up with Campbell on Wednesday evening, bought him drinks and then asked him to move her car.

The attorneys claim that’s when Campbell was arrested on a DUI charge by Tampa police.

When that happened, MJ's legal team claims, Campbell left his trial bag, which contained important, confidential documents, in Personius' car. He had no idea that Personius was a paralegal for Diaco's law firm.

In court on Friday, Personius said she took the briefcase to a member of Clem's legal team.

"He (Diaco) wanted to make sure I had not touched it, had not opened it, had not altered it in any way," Personius said. "He wanted to speak to me personally about what had transpired, and to be clear that nothing had been done to it."

Schnitt is suing Clem and the BTLS Radio Network for what he said were "highly offensive, insulting or fighting words and defamatory statements" made in 2008 about him and his wife, Michelle.

The question now is whether this series of events is enough for Judge Arnold to declare a mistrial.

After hearing testimony Friday from Personius, Diaco and Schnitt's wife, Michelle, Arnold said the allegations were serious enough for him to do more research before making any decision.