You have to hand it to Phil Spector's defence team for really putting the jury together well – somehow it seems to have stumbled upon the only people in the world who aren't convinced of Phil Spector's guilt.
Three days into deliberations and the jurors in the Phil Spector murder trial still haven't reached a decision about how much of a murderer they think he is yet, leading to speculation that the case may not be as open and shut as first anticipated. Although let's remember that the jury does have five solid months of testimony and evidence to comb through before coming to a considered verdict; and don't forget that the jurors may have forgotten huge tracts of what was said in the courtroom because they became bedazzled by the pulsating lustre emanating from Phil Spector's haircut. We know we have – even that picture at the top right of this article zones us out for 20 stone-cold minutes whenever we look at it.
Nobody really suspected the jury in the Phil Spector murder trial to dilly-dally when it came to coming to a verdict after last week's closing arguments ended. They've had five months of thinking time to determine Phil Spector's guilt or innocence, and we'd imagine that flopping on a replica of the chair that Lana Clarkson died on and pretending to be dead during a field trip to Phil Spector's house would have given the jury all the evidence it needed. The jury has heard how longtime woman-threatener Phil Spector hated women so much that he thought they were all 'fucking cunts' and it also heard about how Lana Clarkson was generally a suicidey person. But now the entire Phil Spector murder trial rests solely with them, dilly-dallying looks like the order of the day.
It's a heavy responsibility that they have – especially since there apparently isn't any evidence either way to determine whether Clarkson's death was murder or suicide – but far from thinking that Phil Spector did it, as they were supposed to have thought before the trial, the jurors seem to be having difficulty reaching a decision – and now the judge has nothing better to do than wait and occasionally recommend the jury's television viewing as the International Herald Tribune reports:
Jurors in record producer Phil Spector's murder trial completed a third day of deliberations Wednesday and went home after the judge warned them not to watch a TV program about the case. The jurors and alternates were called in by Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler before being released. "Although you are under admonition not to watch TV or read newspapers, I have to be very specific," Fidler said. "'Dateline NBC' is doing a special on this case tonight. You are not to watch the show." The judge specifically addressed a juror who is a "Dateline" producer. "Juror Number 2, you are now on lifetime jury duty," the judge quipped. "I thought I was already," the juror replied.
See? Grisly murder trials can be fun! But anyway, nobody still has any idea about when the jury will come to a unanimous verdict about Phil Spector. Do remember, though, that most of the Phil Spector murder trial jurors are men, so chances are that instead of doing any actual deliberating, they're all just slouching around eating pizza on a sofa with one hand down their trousers talking about sport and never even thinking about putting the seat down for the female jurors after they've been to the bathroom. Men are such pigs.
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Spector Jury Completes 3rd Day Of Deliberations Without Verdict – International Herald Tribune
Schmoo says
You said ‘haircut’ and not ‘lesbian wig’. What’s the matter with you people?