The Phil Spector murder trial has gone a bit cold over the last couple of weeks – possibly because the dry discussion of blood spatter patterns isn't exactly as fun as women being all upset because Phil Spector tried to rape them at gunpoint.

But that all changes now, because it's time for Phil Spector's defence to get going. And it'll be an uphill task for Phil Spector's defence team, since the testimonies of several forensic professionals have pointed the finger firmly in the direction of murder. Yesterday the defence started to try and clear Spector's name with the introduction of a new forensics expert who had his own ideas on the matter – although why the defence lawyers don't just stand Phil Spector up and ask the jury how a man who's patently incapable of dressing himself as anything other than a middle-aged lesbian on a cruise ship holiday could ever be able to figure out how to murder anyone is beyond us.

So here we are – the Phil Spector murder trial is at the all-important halfway point. As of yesterday the prosecution ended and the defence began. And we're praying that Phil Spector's defence strategy is even half as thrilling as the prosecution's, because lord alone knows how much we love discussing fingernails and how short people are until the end of time.

However, we have to admit that the prosecution did a pretty good job of making Phil Spector look like a murderer. Obviously it helped that Phil Spector had held guns to women in the past and apparently confessed the murder to his driver and had bits of Lana Clarkson's dribble on his winky – and that fact that everyone already thought Phil Spector was guilty probably didn't hurt either – but either way, there's no mistaking that Phil Spector's defence has a lot of legwork to do.

And that started yesterday with the introduction of Vincent DiMaio, an expert forensic pathologist. Vincent DiMaio isn't having any of this talk that Phil Spector was covered in Lana Clarkson's blood because he was standing right in front of her – according to DiMaio, blood from a bullet wound to the kisser can travel up to six feet – which means that Phil Spector is innocent. The Los Angeles Times reports:

The defense contends that blood can spatter more than 6 feet if a gun is fired into a person's mouth and that the number and pattern of bloodstains on Spector's jacket actually show the 67-year-old legendary music producer was standing too far away from Clarkson to have held the gun in her mouth. DiMaio told jurors that when a gun is discharged in a person's mouth, the pressure from the gases trapped in the mouth creates a violent explosion. He likened the force of the gunfire to "dropping an SUV in your mouth…. The gas is now like a whirlwind; it ejects out of the mouth, out of the nose."

Not only that, but Vincent DiMaio claimed that Phil Spector was innocent because hardly anyone does a murder by pushing a gun into someone's mouth and firing, plus most women "hell-bent on destruction" use handguns to kill themselves and don't leave suicide notes, plus Lana Clarkson was hopped-up on booze and Vicodin when she died.

Frankly we're pleased that there's at least a shred of science behind Phil Spector's defence because, in all honesty, we were half-expecting to see six weeks of explanations about Lana Clarkson's relationship with ghosts – and the day that ghosts are allowed to start testifying in murder trials is the day we move to Mexico and start living under an assumed identity.

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Spector Trial Expert Backs Suicide Theory – LA Times