So far, much of the Phil Spector murder trial has rested on how much of a nutter people think Phil Spector is, but now – for a change – the focus is shifting onto how much of a nutter people think dead Lana Clarkson was instead.
The judge presiding over the Phil Spector murder trial is currently considering whether or not to allow some of Lana Clarkson's diaries to be used as evidence. If they are allowed, they'll be a keystone of Phil Spector's defence, since they contain passages where Lana Clarkson – a washed-up actress who died of a gunshot to the head – has visions of seeing a washed-up actress who killed herself with a gun. Even more damningly, however, are the sections of the diary where Lana Clarkson describes waking up in the morning, eating a bowl of cornflakes, brushing her teeth, shopping for apples, returning home and sort of sitting about in front of the TV a bit waiting for Deal Or No Deal. Damning, we say.
This whole Phil Spector murder trial isn't as cut and dry as many people assumed it would be. Even before the trial started, most of the jury thought that Phil Spector was guilty – and that viewpoint probably wasn't helped by the carnival of female witnesses who claimed that Phil Spector pointed guns at them, or the fact that Phil Spector apparently confessed the murder to his driver, or the fact that the judge ruled that Phil Spector's defence team had been nicking evidence, or the fact that a coroner said that Phil Spector jolly well did it.
Phil Spector's defence has been doing its best to bat away these claims, by variously questioning the credibility of the women and the driver and by listing all of the coroner's cock-ups in front of him. But now it's time for Phil Spector's defence to go on the attack by claiming that diaries left on Lana Clarkson's hard drive show that she was, well, a little eccentric.
Most girls lock up their diaries because of all the explosive facts they think they've written in them, when really they've probably locked them up because the contents are staggeringly mundane that no boys would ever kiss them if they knew how boring their lives were. Not Lana Clarkson, though – according to the Washington Post, the court yesterday heard how Lana Clarkson's diaries were full of:
Writings about having visions of a dead actress who killed herself with a gun… discussions of her fascination with guns, depression over her failing acting career, and struggles with alcohol and drugs.
Understandably, Phil Spector's defence team wants Lana Clarkson's diaries to be used as evidence that she was capable of suicide, the claim that Spector has always made. However, the prosecution claims that the documents were probably for a creative writing class that Lana Clarkson was taking, and should therefore be disregarded. After sending the jury out of the court during this argument, Judge Larry Paul Fidler ruled that he would read the entirety of Lana Clarkson's diaries over the weekend and then decide if they can be used as evidence, although he hinted in court that he probably would anyway.
That's one thing he could do – alternatively he could call the spooky dead actress ghost actress from Lana Clarkson's visions into court to testify. Although chances are that Phil Spector probably managed to pull a gun on her at some point as well.
Read more: