Article: Danton to remain jailed pending trial.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

Byline: Michael Shaw and Derrick Goold

ST. LOUIS _ Hockey agent David Frost and his client, St. Louis Blues player Mike Danton, tried to obstruct justice by concocting a phony insanity defense during hours of jailhouse phone conversations in the days following Danton's arrest, a federal prosecutor said Friday.

After hearing three of 79 recorded conversations between Danton and Frost played at a hearing in East St. Louis, a judge decided to keep Danton jailed pending trial on charges that he conspired to have Frost killed.

"The bombshell that Frost told the press is coming is blowing up in Danton's face," Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen B. Clark ...

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