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The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/26) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? With Day eleven of deliberations slowly going down in the jury room, drama in the Phil Spector murder trial traveled out of the courtroom and into the realm of MySpace. It was discovered...
September 26, 2007 8:18 AM ET -
In The Studio (And Exclusive Tracks): Merle Haggard | ARTICLE
Rolling Stone recently got the scoop on Merle Haggard's The Bluegrass Sessions, which comes out October 2nd. "I've got to where, a hundred albums later, I can't tell how good they are anymore," Haggard says of his...
September 25, 2007 4:49 PM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/25) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Exactly two weeks after they began deliberating in the murder trial of Phil Spector, the jury still failed to come to a unanimous verdict. There was some action in the courtroom, however. ...
September 25, 2007 9:01 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/21) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Deliberations, that's what happened. Granted, there were only forty minutes of deliberations, but after forty-eight hours of being at a standstill, the jury finally reconvened to try to arrive at a unanimous verdict...
September 21, 2007 8:38 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/20) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? One day after his jury expressed that they were deadlocked 7 to 5, Judge Fidler sat down with the twelve jurors in the Phil Spector murder trial to determine whether or not they could...
September 20, 2007 9:07 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: Deadlocked! | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? After deliberations that stretched for more than thirty hours over the course of seven days, Phil Spector and his defense, as well as the prosecution were all called to court because the jurors had...
September 18, 2007 5:18 PM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/11) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Jury deliberations finally began in the Phil Spector murder trial. After one day, the jury still had not come to a decision, but that doesn't mean the day was without drama. This...
September 11, 2007 9:21 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/10) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED FRIDAY? After three days of closing arguments from the prosecution and defense, the jury in the Phil Spector murder trial will finally begin deliberations today in Los Angeles. Friday began with the finale of...
September 10, 2007 9:03 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/07) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Following what seemed to be a case-crippling closing argument by prosecutor Alan Jackson, Phil Spector defense lawyer Linda Kenney-Baden had the arduous task of presenting the defense's closing arguments. Kenney-Baden had...
September 7, 2007 9:14 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (09/06) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Finally, after four and a half months of testimony, closing arguments began in the murder trial of famed producer Phil Spector. First up: the prosecution. Deputy DA Alan Jackson started things off...
September 6, 2007 9:36 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/30) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? With testimony in the trial officially over, the prosecution and defense huddled up with Judge Fidler to discuss what evidence was fair game to discuss in the closing arguments. It's the portion of...
August 30, 2007 9:13 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/28) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Following the fireworks that marked defense lawyer Bruce Cutler's abrupt exit from the procedeeings yesterday, Judge Filder told a relieved jury that Monday would be the final day of testimony in the...
August 28, 2007 8:57 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/27) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED TODAY? We interrupt our usual next-day summaries of the Phil Spector trial to relay breaking news: Bruce Cutler, who started off as Spector's lead lawyer, has left the defense team because...
August 27, 2007 3:47 PM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/24) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? The battle of contradicting witnesses waged on yesterday as Dr. Werner Spitz, the Dr. Strangelove of forensic science, retook the stand for the defense's rebuttal case to validate Dr. Michael...
August 24, 2007 9:15 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/23) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? The prosecution called their final rebuttal witness to the stand, Dr. John Andrews, a forensic neuropathologist, who helped refute Dr. Michael Baden's powerful testimony the jury heard last week. Baden testified...
August 23, 2007 9:22 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/22) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Following another four-day break, the defense team finally came to court at full strength as lawyers Bruce Cutler and Linda Kenney-Baden were back by Phil Spector's side. Rather than continue focusing on
August 22, 2007 8:59 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/17) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Phil Spector's defense team had a rough start on Thursday. Judge Larry Fidler ruled that while he wouldn't strike from the record Tuesday's controversial tesimony about the gunshot wound that killed Lana...
August 17, 2007 9:40 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/16) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? Dr. Michael Baden was back on the stand to face cross-examination from the prosecution's Alan Jackson. With the prosecution barely touching the surface of Baden's mishandled testimony about Lana Clarkson's fatal gunshot...
August 16, 2007 9:24 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/15) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? The Michael Jordan of forensic science, Dr. Michael Baden, finally took the stand as the defense's likely last witness. The first two hours of Baden's testimony revolved around his long and prestigious career:...
August 15, 2007 9:11 AM ET -
The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don't Have To (08/14) | ARTICLE
WHAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY? The Phil Spector murder trial entered its likely last week of witness testimony with a few surprises. To start, blood spatter expert James Pex retook the stand to answer questions concerning whether or...
August 14, 2007 9:26 AM ET

