The Phil Spector murder trial is now focusing on the mental health of Lana Clarkson – probably a good thing, since most healthy-minded women wouldn't have wanted to suck off a kooky old man in a bizarre lesbian wig, as Lana supposedly did.
Again, as on Monday, the Phil Spector murder trial revolved around the testimony of Vincent DiMaio, a forensics expert who Phil Spector is paying $400 an hour. As part of Phil Spector's defence, DiMaio yesterday continued to push the theory that Lana Clarkson killed herself, as opposed to Phil Spector doing it for her. As well as detailing her depression – and her struggles with alcohol and drugs – DiMaio also decided to describe exactly what happens to your tongue when you shoot yourself in the mouth, with the aid of a rubber tongue. Needless to say, it's put us right off the idea of ever shooting ourselves in the mouth. Or sucking off Phil Spector, for that matter.
When it came to the prosecution in the Phil Spector murder trial, the focus was understandably on Phil Spector – primarily how he used to apparently try to rape women at gunpoint and how he told his driver that he killed someone. Lana Clarkson, the woman who was found dead of a gunshot wound at Phil Spector's LA castle in 2003, was hardly mentioned at all, unless giant gory wound photos of her were being shown or people were discussing the amount of her dribble found around Phil Spector's pecker. But Phil Spector's defence seems to want to to delve inside the mind of Lana Clarkson a little more.
It's tried this in the past, like when it told the judge that Lana Clarkson was a maniac who saw dead bullet-filled actress ghosts in house. But now it's the turn of Phil Spector's defence to talk, so everyone has to listen. On Monday, forensics expert Vincent DiMaio described how much blood would have shot out of Lana Clarkson's face after she was shot in the mouth, while saying that the events around her death mouth likely suggest a suicide rather that a murder. It was in stark contrast to the testimonies of the coroner who said it was murder, the police investigator who said it was murder and the forensic scientist who said it was murder, but yesterday Vincent DiMaio carried on regardless.
And yesterday, as the Los Angeles Times reports, Vincent DiMaio kept telling everyone how depressed Lana Clarkson was:
Earlier in the trial, Louis Pena, a Los Angeles County medical examiner, said Clarkson did not appear to be addicted to drugs or alcohol and had not been diagnosed with depression. Pena said he saw Clarkson's e-mails to friends, complaining of financial problems and a faltering acting career, as combining frustration with optimism and plans to move forward. Looking at the same e-mails, DiMaio testified that "she was afraid, she had financial problems…. She had some self-destructive characteristics with drugs and alcohol." "She had depression," he said. "Virtually all people who commit suicide are depressed."
Obviously, that's if you don't count all the people who shoot themselves in the mouth because they're so overjoyed at the beauty of life. Anyway, the prosecution against Phil Spector had noted that Lana Clarkson's tongue was bruised, hinting that it was a sign of struggle, but Vincent Baio put an end to that talk by whipping out a rubber tongue and explaining how the force of the gases the gun released would have slammed it all around the inside of her mouth like "a cherry bomb in the mouth."
Hopefully this new prop direction will work for Phil Spector's defence team – because if it does, the defence will be keen to rolling out more and more elaborate props until it recreates the crime scene by using defence lawyer Bruce Cutler as a Phil Spector prop, dressed in a weird lesbian wig and telling endless anecdotes about the making of You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling. Who could find Phil Spector guilty of anything after that?
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Mithaearon says
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me. I’m a lawyer defending Phil Spector, and I’m talkin’ about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you’re in that jury room deliberatin’ and conjugatin’ the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests