There's a lesson to be learnt from the Phil Spector murder trial – and that's to always sleep with Phil Spector whenever he asks you to; because if you don't he might pull a gun on you, and that means wasting a day in court talking about it later on.
The number of women who have now used the Phil Spector murder trial to testify that Phil Spector pulled a gun on them when they decided they didn't want to sleep with him has now risen to four, after Stephanie Jennings and Melissa Grosvenor took to the stand yesterday. By our reckoning that just leaves one more woman who claims that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her, after which the murder trial can move onto something else – a blessed relief, because hearing how an elderly man with crazy hair threatened to kill a woman if she didn't sleep with him once is kind of exciting, but five times? Boy, is that ever a yawn.
We're beginning to see a pattern emerging in the Phil Spector murder trial, you know. First a woman claims that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her, then another woman claims that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her, then another woman claims that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her, then another woman claims that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her. Now, we didn't spend 16 years in police college without picking up some amount of intuition – and that intuition tells us that the next step of the Phil Spector murder trial will involve guns, women, Phil Spector, pulling and some degree of claiming in one order or another.
But that's for the future. Right now the court is reeling from yesterday's events, where a couple of women – yes – claimed that Phil Spector pulled guns on them once. First to testify yesterday was Stephanie Jennings, a woman who says that Phil Spector pointed a gun at her in a hotel room in 1995 and wouldn't stop until she called 911.
Then came the turn of Melissa Grosvenor, who gave another variation of the gun-pulling theme, claiming that Phil Spector pulled his trick at his house in 1992. But rather than cry off sick like Bruce Cutler, Spector's defence lawyer Roger Rosen went to work on Grosvenor as the LA Times reports:
Prosecutor Patrick Dixon ended his direct examination of Grosvenor by asking whether she had been convicted of embezzlement in 1989; she answered, "Yes." Beginning his cross-examination, Rosen asked: "I'm going to start where Mr. Dixon left off, are you as you sit here today a convicted felon?" Grosvenor… calmly replied, "Yes, sir." Rosen then got Grosvenor to acknowledge that she had stolen from a bank where she had worked and later lied about it on a job application.
Melissa Grosvenor is expected to return to court today for further questioning, and it's expected that she'll be followed by Phil Spector's ex-girlfriend Devra Robitaille who will claim that Phil Spector pulled a gun on her once.
Just for a change, like.
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James Davis says
Maaaan, I really dug that big-ass fro he used to have. It gave him that art-garfunkel-possessed-by-satan look, and was infinitely more awesome than the present mop. But now… he just resembles my grandmother right before she died.
Euclid says
He looks like mine right after.