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I think this is the way I will remember Phil Spector...
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Lana Clarkson was shot to death at Phil Spector's mansion back in 2003. And now,
the jury at the trial is reportedly split 7-5. The judge said that he might give
them new instruction such as the option of weighing a possible manslaughter
charge. Right now they were instructed to only consider a second degree murder.
Looks like he is going to get away with murder. After two weeks, the jury can't settle on a verdict. Juries are funny things, sometimes they get the picture and sometimes they don't. This seems like such a clear case, at least to me.
"Phil Spector's life now lies in the hands of 12 people! Phil went on trial for
the murder of Lana Clarkson five months ago. Lana was shot to death in his
Alhambra, CA mansion back in 2003. The two met that night at the House of Blues.
Phil's defense claims Lana was depressed and killed herself in his mansion even
though she had just met him"
In her closing statement, lawyer Linda Kenney-Baden said the prosecution had put
on a "stage-show" trial to cover up the lack of scientific evidence.
She urged jurors to acquit her client, saying police wanted to convict the US music
mogul because of his fame.
LOS ANGELES — A prosecutor told jurors Wednesday to imagine what they
would have said if they had been in a parking lot outside the House of Blues
more than four years ago as record producer Phil Spector coaxed a reluctant Lana
Clarkson to come to his home.
"You'd lean over and you'd whisper, 'Don't go. Don't go.' You'd simply say, 'Lana, don't go,"' Deputy District Attorney Alan Jackson said as closing arguments began in Spector's murder trial."The reason that you would say that is because you know something she didn't know," he continued. "You know the real Phil Spector. ... You know in your heart of hearts he is responsible for her death. He killed her."
"Five women have testified to his threats during their relationships with him.
Court TV has said that some of the women were credible at his trial, but the
last woman who testified had sold her story to the “Globe”."
"In yet another discouraging development for accused murderer/avowed bitch-hater
Phil Spector, lead defense attorney Bruce Cutler--who so famously got things
started with a bang by hammering the phrase 'murder on their minds'
approximately 17,000 times into the jurors' skulls, then became a rarer and
rarer courtroom presence as he attended to his daytime-TV-starring
commitments--has officially stepped down from the case as of today"
"Jurors in the Phil Spector trial are soon expected to hear testimony from Devra
Robitaille, the fifth witness who'll testify that Spector had held them at
gunpoint when they threatened to leave his Alhambra mansion--sort of like the
Playboy Mansion, but with fewer big parties, more acts of violence against
women, and about an equal amount of obscenely rich, eccentric, and horny old
proprietors wandering around. Earlier today, the jurors got a look at the crime
scene itself."
"We're having trouble remembering the punchline to that old joke that goes: 'How
many women must a crackpot music producer threaten with a loaded firearm before
jurors finally discount his highly unlikely story that a failed actress was so
depressed, she followed him home to his mansion one night to kill herself?'
(We're pretty sure that in every iteration, however, the answer was five or
less.)"
"LOS ANGELES — Phil Spector's 24-year-old daughter briefly took the witness
stand Wednesday as the defense case wound down in his murder trial, but the
judge only allowed her to testify that he is right-handed and stopped
questioning that suggested he was an attentive father."
"The parade of Hollywood characters and crackpots willing to testify as to Lana
Clarkson's suicidal state of mind at the time of her shooting death continues
with Punkin Laughlin, aka Punkin Pie, a club promoter who considered the
Barbarian Queen star her 'best friend.' Laughlin testified that Clarkson had
told her 'I don't want to live anymore, I don't want to live in this town, I
want to end it,' less than a week before her death. Today, the cross-examination
accused Laughlin of having changed her tune considerably"
"He quoted Spector as repeatedly uttering an obscene phrase referring to
women.
Tannazzo said Spector said to him, 'These (expletive). They all
deserve a bullet in their head.'"

"Attorney Sara Caplan could still be held in contempt of court for refusing to
testify about Dr. Henry Lee's actions back in 2003 at the scene of Lana
Clarkson's death, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler said
Thursday during a hearing held without the jury present.
Caplan, who was
working with famed defense attorney Robert Shapiro at the time, testified last
month during an evidentiary hearing that she observed Lee, a veteran forensics
expert, pick up a small, white object with rough edges in the hallway of
Spector's Alhamba mansion on Feb. 4, 2003, the day after Clarkson died from a
gunshot wound through her mouth."
"It's difficult to know for certain what goes through the bewigged head of Phil
Spector as witness after witness takes the stand to offer their damning
testimony--perhaps he's conjuring elaborate revenge fantasies involving a
variety of binding materials and a double-barreled shotgun, with 'Carmina
Burana' blasting over the castle stereo system. Yesterday's appearance by L.A.
County Medical Examiner Dr. Louis Pena certainly didn't do the defense any
favors, with the doctor explaining how several factors led him to conclude the
shooting was a homicide: "