The defense in music producer Phil Spector’s murder trial called a renowned forensic expert who testified that blood spatter from a gunshot wound can travel up to six feet.

Stuart James, a forensic expert who has published a book on bloodstain-pattern analysis, testified Monday that blood spatter from a gunshot wound can travel as far as six feet. “At six feet, you are still getting millimeter-size stains or less. Even small droplets can travel that distance,” he said.

This is good news for Spector, accused of having murdered struggling actress Lana Clarkson in February 2003, in his own home. His defense team claims he was too far away from Lana to have shot her, but not so far that he wouldn’t be reached by blood from a self-inflicted wound.

Spector has claimed all along that he is innocent. The defense is calling Lana’s death an “accidental suicide.”

Clarkson, 40, was found slumped in a chair in Spector’s Alhambra mansion. James analyzed bloodstains on the arm of the chair as well as on her dress and Spector's coat.

James’ testimony contradicts a previous testimony by prosecution witness, sheriff's criminalist Lynne Herold, who said she had taken one of James' courses on blood spatter. She testified that that blood spatter could travel only about two-to-three feet.

Spector’s defense lawyers have tried to suggest that at the time of her death, Lana Clarkson, most famous for her role in the 1985 cult film “Barbarian Queen,” was depressed due to financial struggles and lack of career opportunities.

The prosecution has countered that Clarkson was perhaps only tired of Hollywood and wished to start over elsewhere and was not actually contemplating suicide at the time of her death.

Phil Spector, renowned for having invented the “wall of sound” technique in the 1960s, could spend at least 15 years in jail if found guilty.