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The trial intended against the music producer Phil Spector
for murdering actress Lana Clarkson on February, the 3rd 2003 goes on with the
judge’s approval of Devra Robitaille's testimony and with the jurors visiting
Spector’s foyer the see the murder’s premises themselves.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler
overruled the defense’s objection to the hearing of the fifth woman testify her
being threatened with a gun by Spector. Defense attorney Bradley Brunon
sustained that the prosecutors held her testimony until the end of the trial on
purpose, to generate a greater impact during the rebuttal stage, adding that
that is impermissible. "I do believe this does properly qualify as
rebuttal evidence," Fidler said when he overruled it.
The defense called to testify an estranged sister of the
forth deponent who claimed that her sister just wanted to be part in a
high-profile trial, so she made up her story. The prosecutors claim that it was
a strategy that tried to undermine the others depositions also.
The prosecution actually wanted to highlight a Spector’s
pattern to take women home and then threaten them with a gun when they wanted
to leave.
Because defense forensic witnesses claim that Clarkson
killed herself, attorneys want that jurors come to see the foyer where the
40-year old actress was found slumped down in a chair with her legs extended,
shut in her mouth.
Given the fact that Spector’s jacket was found spattered
with Clarkson’s blood, the defense maintains the idea that the blood could hit
him while he was standing as far as six feet away. The prosecutors claim that
he was spattered while he shot her.
The 12 jurors of the trial and six alternates will get a
firsthand look today at the scene of the murder of Lana Clarkson, in the foyer
of the 33-room mansion of Phill Spector in Alhambra.
Spector is renowned for having created the “Wall of Sound”
recording technique that revolutionized the recording of rock music. He
produced the Beatles' “Let It Be” album and George Harrison's “Concert for Bangladesh.”
He recorded the hit song “To Know Him Is to Love Him” and
worked with the likes of The Ronettes, Ike and Tina Turner, Sonny and Cher. Rolling Stone magazine has said his work “may be
the most personal and stylistically unified series of multi-artist recordings
in pop history.” He was voted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
Phil Spector could spend at least 15 years in jail if found
guilty.
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