Court cases are confusing at the best of times, and even more so when the defendant is a 1960s musical production wizard with lesbian hair like Phil Spector – first someone said that Phil Spector was guilty and now someone else says he's innocent.
Yesterday, after we'd been led to believe by the prosecution that Phil Spector was guilty, it was the turn of Phil Spector's defence to make its opening statement at the Phil Spector murder trial, where everybody learnt that Phil Spector couldn't have killed Lana Clarkson because she was a) depressed, b) drunk and c) much taller than him. So Phil Spector didn't do it. Unless he did. Oh, we're so confused.
If Earth court cases were more like Kryptonian court cases, then there's a good chance that a circle of big-faced men would have all bellowed the word "guilty" over and over again at Phil Spector before putting him inside a sheet of glass with a girl and a grunting man who looks a bit mentally disabled and firing them all into space.
Luckily, though, Earth court cases listen to the defence before trapping the defendant in glass, and that's what happened yesterday in day two of the Phil Spector murder trial. Phil Spector needed the best defence lawyer he could find for this case – since most of the jury think he's guilty thanks to his nasty habit of twatting around with guns in the past – and in Bruce Cutler, he might have come pretty close.
On Wednesday the court heard the opening statement from the prosecution, a lawyer named Alan Jackson who was keen to tell everyone that Phil Spector was "sinister and deadly." And yesterday it was the turn of Cutler to try and convince the court that Phil Spector didn't shoot Lana Clarkson because she was drunk, tall and a bit mopey. The Washington Post reports:
Cutler, who referred to Clarkson as the "decedent," rather than the victim, mentioned her tequila-drinking and pill-taking… Cutler remarked that Clarkson, a 40-year-old B-movie actress with cult status for her role in Roger Corman's "Barbarian Queen," was over six feet tall "in heels," while Spector is 5-4 and weighs 135 pounds, suggesting that it would have been difficult to force a weapon into Clarkson's mouth if she resisted.
Also, Bruce Cutler added, Lana Clarkson wrote computer notes about being depressed and wanting to "tidy my affairs and chuck it." Cutler's team also noted that the path of the bullet that killed her and death pose of Clarkson was "a classic self-inflicted wound."
And then, when Phil Spector's defence finished its opening statements, a woman called up as a witness sort of undid all the good work by describing how Phil Spector once pulled a gun on her and smacked her around the head with it in 1993. The case continues.
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Spector Defence Says Gun Threats Are Tall Tales – Washington Post
Angie says
Phil spector? as in “MOUNTAINS LOW VALLEYS HIGH” SONG! IKE & TINA TURNER!?
NO WAY! I BET THESE GIRLS LIKED HAVING AN (UNLOADED) GUN HELD TO THEIR HEAD DURING SEX, AND I’M A WOMAN ! WHO COULD MAYBE ? LIKE THE SAME THING. IT’S RIGHT UP THEIR W/ FAKE RAPE FANTASIES! OR ASPHICICIATION, WHICH ARE KNOWN TO HAVE GONE WRONG AWRY BY ACCIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WASN’T THERE, THANK GOD, SO I DON’T KNOW ANYTHING FOR A FACT! JUST OPINION!