Bruce Cutler Legs It From Phil Spector Murder Trial
When his murder case finally went to court, Phil Spector always had an ace up his billowy, slightly effeminate sleeve – Bruce Cutler, his theatrical foghorn of a lead defence attorney; except that's what Bruce Cutler isn't any more.
With testimony in the Phil Spector murder trial in its dying gasps, Bruce Cutler has suddenly decided to quit Phil Spector's defence team. Although the official reasons that have been given include Bruce Cutler disagreeing about Phil Spector's closing argument and Cutler wanting to dedicate more of his time to his new TV show, it's equally likely that Bruce Cutler left Phil Spector's side because he was either burnt up with jealousy over Phil Spector's gloriously Sapphic haircut or because he wanted to get as far away from Phil Spector as humanly possible when Phil invariably gets found guilty of murdering Lana Clarkson so people will still want him to be their lawyer. One or the other. Possibly.
There were a couple of reasons why the Phil Spector murder trial was so highly anticipated before it started – 1) hey, who doesn't like murder? and 2) Bruce Cutler. Phil Spector hired Bruce Cutler because of his reputation as the earthquake-loud lawyer whose pain-inducingly aggressive cross-examining tendencies had previously got mobster John Gotti acquitted. And if he could do that for a notorious organised crime boss, imagine what he could do for a little old man in a lesbian wig who might have shot a woman who was depressed enough to shoot herself anyway.
But although they worked together for four years before the Phil Spector murder trial went to court, cracks immediately appeared between Bruce and Spector. Following Bruce Cutler's opening statement, Cutler was only allowed to cross examine one witness, and that ended with the judge constantly nagging him about his absurdly overwrought manner. Following that Bruce Cutler got ill, had the Phil Spector murder trial delayed while get got better and then didn't do anything anyway, except sneak off a few weeks in to make his own TV show. And now the inevitable has happened – Bruce Cutler has left Phil Spector's defence, as E! Online reports:
Bruce Cutler, the so-billed lead attorney on Spector's defense team who was frequently MIA from the criminal proceedings, has resigned his post, citing a difference of opinion on the team's closing-argument strategy in the legendary producer's murder trial. In Los Angeles Superior Court Monday, the final day of testimony in the long-gestating trial, Cutler told Judge Larry Paul Fidler: "There's nothing I can do for Mr. Spector. I can no longer effectively represent him." When Fidler asked Spector whether he concurred with Cutler's last-minute stepping down, Spector replied, "That is correct."
However, Bruce Cutler did hint that he might possibly be back in court to give the closing statement for the defence next week, and that might not be such a bad idea. Since the Phil Spector murder trial has become so hopelessly one-sided that the defence has now been forced to discuss the intricacies of the French revolution in court, maybe only Bruce Cutler can step in and save things for Phil Spector. After all, if a giant bald man bellowing about what a tiny wussbag Phil Spector is can't make people think Phil Spector is innocent, then what can?
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Stuart,
Very lame article on Bruce Cutler. Why do you think Phil Spector, a legend, had to shoot a 6′ prostitute who he told me was acting bizarrely in his foyer, dancing around, singing “Da Doo Run Run,” and then shot herself? Should we all join forces in helping Donna Clarkson and the District Attorney help persecute an innocent man and then help her steal his assets? I think not – even if you’re crowd is entertained and delusional.
Kelley Lynch
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An Open Letter From Phil Spector To A Good Friend.
Sunday July 26th
Steven,
I had no voice the day I was sentenced in court on May 30th 2009 due to throat papalomas I had removed 3-days earlier on the 27th.of May. It left me with no voice. I was indeed very upset because when I was asked to address the court, I could not speak for I had no voice. What I wanted to say follows: Be it known that I, Phillip Spector had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the death of Lana Clarkson. And irrefutable science and five of the greatest, most famous forensic scientists all swore under oath that Ms. Clarkson died of a self inflicted gun shot wound, a suicide. They swore by irrefutable science. And while juries and judges lie and make mistakes, science and DNA do not. When their scientific findings and words were ignored is a mystery to me, and hopefully will not be ignored by the appellate court. And I shall return.
But let it also be known that there IS a murderer in the court room and it is NOT Phil Spector, it is Alan Jackson. During the trial he murdered the truth, ,he murdered the constitution, he murdered the law, and he murdered my reputation, and he should not go unpunished for his dastardly deeds. He used his five little “groupies” women, one of whom recently overdosed and died from drugs, and could not be here to testify to slander and lie about me, and victimize me so that he could get his conviction without any scientific proof whatsoever. That’s because he had none. He lied and cheated and double crossed that before along with his cohort Truc Doe whenever they got to it, yes my friends, HE is the real murderer. But, what goes around comes around. And the appellate court will see through his chicanery and smoke and mirrors, and false law and overturn my conviction, and then I will be back stronger than ever, a free man as I should be. Until then, POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
Steven, I would like this published verbatim from the beginning of this letter to the end. And tell Chris Paven to also put it on my website.
Thanks, Phillip