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The Phil Spector Trial: We Watch Court TV So You Don’t Have To

8/24/07, 9:15 am EST


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 Baden’s testimony and dismiss yesterday’s testimony from prosecution expert Dr. John Andrews. The turn of events can best be described as a spinal tug-of-war: Was Lana Clarkson’s spine completely transected by the bullet that killed her, or was it held together by enough fibers to allow her to spit blood onto Phil Spector’s jacket? Andrews says motor skills ceased immediately, Baden and Spitz think Clarkson breathed for a few minutes. Who’s right? We’ll never know. Since these men are the heavyweights of their scientific field, it’s getting to the point where it seems like they’re just making up theories as they go along, while no one in the lower weight classes has the knowledge to prove them wrong or right.

IS THIS GOOD OR BAD FOR SPECTOR?
Let’s call it a draw. Spitz is obviously operating on the “agree to disagree” method, which is when he disagrees with everything the prosecution has to say, even when the prosecution agrees with previous defense witnesses. By now, both judge and jury are sick of the spine talk, so it would be best for both sides to just move on.

MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE OF COURT:
Phil Spector’s adopted son Gary appeared on Court TV to discuss the trial. Gary shockingly told host Jami Floyd that his father is convinced he’ll be found guilty, and is only spending millions of dollars on his defense team and witnesses because Phil feels it’s better to spend the money on his trial than giving all that money to the Clarkson family in the inevitable wrongful death lawsuit. Gary cited a previous lawsuit where Phil paid his ex-wife Ronnie Spector thousands of dollars in nickels as an example of Phil’s ire when people try to take his money. Gary also discussed those many years he and his brother were locked into their rooms every night by their father.


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shannon eisner | 8/24/2007, 9:47 am EST

I am sick about this mans situation. I pray he is found not guilty becaue he couldnt have done it. She could have killed him first! She was a giant compared to him. All of these people who are talking smack on him had no problem sponging off of him in the past.

Paul Huebl | 8/24/2007, 11:14 am EST

Legendary record producer, Phil Spector is on trial for his life. A woman we all now know, Lana Clarkson was addicted to narcotic drugs and alcohol as well as being impaired by them. Clarkson was found dead in Spector’s home and now Phil Spector is charged with killing her.

Lana Clarkson was desperate, destitute, and depressed. We also discovered during this trial that Clarkson forged letterheads and the signatures of entertainment executives on letters promising future work and extolling her immense talents as a performer. The letters were not simply used to puff her resume but to swindle people she knew out of $60,000.00 to fund her pathetic video, Lana Unleashed. Clarkson had yet another habit we were informed about during the trial. She would steal drugs from the medicine cabinets of her own friends to satisfy her drug addiction.

My theory is a simple one. Lana Clarkson, a stranger to Phil Spector came to his home as a paid prostitute. It’s now clear she had some sexual activity with Phil Spector. I believe Lana Clarkson was searching and pilfering Spector’s home when she found one of Phil Spector’s guns. I also believe Spector caught her and because she was drugged up and drunk she recklessly tried to put on a show with the gun she removed and simply killed herself. Read it all right here: Read it all right here: http://crimefilenews.blogspot. com/2007/08/why-judge-larry-pa ul-fidler-is-dead.html

MK | 8/24/2007, 11:42 am EST

he is sooo guilty. He admitted that he “just killed somebody” and the chaffeur heard him. I think he didn’t mean to kill her but when she wanted to leave he got his gun like he always did and the gun went off. Lana may have been bigger than the shrimp but he had the gun!

MK | 8/24/2007, 11:42 am EST

he is sooo guilty. He admitted that he “just killed somebody” and the chaffeur heard him. I think he didn’t mean to kill her but when she wanted to leave he got his gun like he always did and the gun went off. Lana may have been bigger than the shrimp but he had the gun!

Mark Rosmar | 8/24/2007, 12:06 pm EST

He is the best one to tell us about the incident and he has chosen not to. Why?

peter | 8/24/2007, 12:44 pm EST

spector will walk because all jurors will have some doubt in their mind and they will be made to believe that the doubt is not beyond reasonable. This is put into their heads by million dollar lawyers.

Candace | 8/24/2007, 3:06 pm EST

Testimony given in evidence at the trial shows Spector has been menacing and threatenting others with guns going back decades. It is surprising that a death has not occured previously. I think he is guilty and I hope he spends the rest of his life in prison.

Our "justice" system | 8/24/2007, 3:14 pm EST

When it comes to our justice system, especially when money is involved, it’s all about charisma, style, personality and the science of selecting a jury. I hope that in the majority of cases, jurors rise to the occasion and do what is right. But I also worry about how trials are reported. I think this guy is guilty…he was a napoleanic bully who dealt in high risk behavior and killed someone in the process. It’s absurd to think otherwise.

bukowski | 8/24/2007, 5:02 pm EST

Free Phil Spector Free Phil Spector

Xspectorant | 8/24/2007, 7:20 pm EST

Paul Huebl. Hmmm. The same Paul Huebl who wrote of Bonnie Lee Bakely, “Bonnie Lee Bakley’s life was not worth five cents. Thirty million for that extortionist/felon/hooker is a joke.”?

Is it all women that deserve to die in your book? Excuse me, I think your bias is showing.

And Ms. Eisner, if you have been watching the trial every day, the evidence is overwhelming against Spector. And for the record, I’ve never sponged off of him.

houdini | 8/24/2007, 7:45 pm EST

ummmm, mr. huebl, aren’t you one of harvey’s few friends? seem to recall your name in connection with his before.

guess he didn’t want YOU to stay! birds of a feather etc.

Candace | 8/24/2007, 8:14 pm EST

Free Phil Spector of his freedom and all of his money. Give him life in prison with no possibility of parole. He will still be breathing which is more than poor Lana Clarkson. I think the evidence points to his GUILT without reasonable doubt.

jj | 8/24/2007, 9:47 pm EST

Does anyone remember that Mr. Spector say to the Police,I didn’t mean to kill her-it was the Alhambra Police,I feel sorry for Mr.Spector because he states he is manic/depressant, bipolar disorder.But a life was taken, it was not her gun,and drinking and meds do not mix..disaster. Let the Jury deliberate, but I heard his sons interview.So Sad.

Schambach | 8/24/2007, 10:11 pm EST

Spector is a maniac bio-polar egotistical sadistic individual.
He must go to jail. Hopefully the jurors review just the facts.

Shinkicker | 8/24/2007, 11:09 pm EST

Oh Paul. How sad that you’re posting these incorrect and outlandish claims.
Riddle me this Batman.. if anything you said were true, how come you have to post it? If it were fact, everyone would already know it through the trial.
Funny how that works huh?

I’m not going to post all the evidence that proves you are wrong, Alan “Passion” Jackson is doing just fine on his own IN THE COURTROOM! :)

Pilfering his home. ROFL!
Hysterical!

Bernard Barcolatte | 8/24/2007, 11:20 pm EST

ITS REALLY NOT FAIR THAT THE COURTS ALLOW A DEFENDANT THE RIGHT NOT TO TESTIFY.
SPECTOR WAS THERE TO TELL WHAT HAD OCCURED AND SHOULD BE FORCED TO TAKE THE STAND AND BE QUESTIONED BY BOTH PROSECUTION AND DEFENSE.
IF HE HAS NOTHING TO HIDE WHY DO SO?

Joyce danelen@yahoo.com | 8/25/2007, 12:40 am EST

Stop this craziness!

Gary Spector does not live in
Ca. and has NOT been in Ca. for years.

This is a bogus story!

I Joyce Danelen, would know!

Phil Spector, is innocent.

Some people need to google or watch the case.

harry houdini | 8/25/2007, 12:49 am EST

Back off using my screen name!

samantha | 8/25/2007, 4:40 am EST

My theory: Spector had a habit of leaving women guests alone. That’s when Clarkson helped herself to the gun. When he returned, she went into a seductive oral simulation routine with the gun. She was feeling high and INVINCIBLE with the vicodin and tequila kickin in good. She may have hoped for another big tip or at least some showbiz connections from Phil. She was blitzed and accidentally shot herself.

Leslie | 8/25/2007, 9:43 am EST

Anita, is that you? Please stop with your ridiculous drivel. What a coincidence that a woman would just happen to accidentally shoot herself by the backdoor of a man who just happens to have a history of pulling guns on women when they try to leave. He killed her and he’s going to prison for it.

bukowski | 8/25/2007, 10:40 am EST

I know a girl named Samantha here in TN. She’s a complete psycho! It’s not you, is it?

Frank O' | 8/25/2007, 11:12 am EST

Guityy! He moidered that goil.

sandra | 8/25/2007, 11:23 am EST

Its very clear that he (Phil) needed the women to spent the night at his place to give the reporter that he is having sex but he can’t have sex,since he really shows he is very old . Old people can’t have sex due to something messing up their body as they get older!!!!

c.c.rider | 8/25/2007, 11:37 am EST

Spector is a risk taking nutter and its a wonder that he hadnt taken a life a lot sooner than this.Lana Clarksons personal history is irrelevant….a life is a life and he obviously took hers and should pay for it…Big time.

Candace | 8/25/2007, 12:28 pm EST

Samantha, a far more likely scenario is that Spector was raping Clarkson with that gun (forced penetration) when it discharged. If Spector is found guilty and incarcerated, I think a serial rapist who murdered in the commission of that crime will no longer be a threat to women.

Joyce danelen@yahoo.com | 8/25/2007, 9:08 pm EST

Phil Spector is a wonderful person and good friend. No way would Phil, hurt anyone. When you are getting the milk for free you do not shoot the amazon cow.

Phil Spector, is innocent! Phil, never told anyone he killed anyone.
Because he didn’t!

Look at Lana, a $9 an hour security hostess with no tips, no money, on many drugs.

Think why would Phil give up the good life for any woman?

What you need to ask is why this judge is so bias? He won’t allow in that Lana was a hooker that liked to play with guns.

She got her fifteen minutes of fame but on Phil Spector’s dime.

RIP Lana, you did yourself in!

Google some facts.

Thank you,

Joyce Danelen at yahoo dot com

cell 818-231-0905

bukowski | 8/25/2007, 9:20 pm EST

Joyce, people who make $9 an hour can’t afford “many drugs.”

samantha | 8/26/2007, 12:12 am EST

Bukowski, I’m not your TN psycho girl. Just because I think Clarkson shot herself doesn’t make me a nutcase. Clarkson was a woman on the edge.

bukowski | 8/26/2007, 1:04 am EST

I thought you were someone else. Too bad, I did have quite a bit of fun with her! Oh, well.

bukowski | 8/26/2007, 1:26 am EST

I’m not saying he should’ve killed her, but it’s crossed my mind several times with various different girlfriends. Maybe she had a big mouth! Who knows. Hasn’t Phil suffered enough? I mean first he has to be put up with that lush’s big mouth, and now all this todo over a simple misunderstanding! Maybe she was a bitch who had it coming!!!

don't call me daughter | 8/26/2007, 1:58 am EST

Billy Ray remembered to be nice to the ladies.

bukowski | 8/26/2007, 2:19 am EST

Agent Provocateur, remember???

Lil'Bo'Spector did it! | 8/26/2007, 4:55 am EST

Since all in the Spector camp claim Lana killed herself, why do they feel the need to slander her? THEY ARE ALL LIES!!!! Why the need to trash her if your “Little Man” is innocent? Wouldnt “Small Fry” be comforting poor Donna Clarkson if he did indeed witness her daughter committing suicide? Why do “Mini Me’s” perhaps three supporters feel the need to create stories if their “gal Spector” is innocent?

legalsec | 8/26/2007, 5:11 am EST

I think it is so sad that a beautiful woman lost her life and all the supposed innocent one can do is try to mar her image. If he says he didn’t do it, he sure has incriminated himself with what he has done to her memory. As for her so-called friends, please don’t call yourselves friends of hers because there is no way on earth you could have ever been her friend with the way you are treating her now. No way on earth. No way. You don’t know what a friend is.

guilty guilty | 8/26/2007, 6:18 am EST

Hey Anita. Youre still alive. I guess Philly didnt want you.

GoFigure | 8/27/2007, 12:30 am EST

Why guess about whether she breathed out after she was shot? We have a living breathing witness. If only he would enlighten us. Be a man Phil. Take the stand. Tell us what happened.

simon | 8/27/2007, 12:43 am EST

Phil Spector is Innocent and clearly from these blogs we have a LYNCH MOB just like the discredited DUKE RAPE CASE but what happen at the end the 3 boys were innocent and phil sector is also innocent but court tv AKA PROSECUTOR TV is out there LYNCHING and persecuting Phil Spector.

simon | 8/27/2007, 12:43 am EST

Phil Spector is Innocent and clearly from these blogs we have a LYNCH MOB just like the discredited DUKE RAPE CASE but what happen at the end the 3 boys were innocent and phil sector is also innocent but court tv AKA PROSECUTOR TV is out there LYNCHING and persecuting Phil Spector.

GoFigure | 8/27/2007, 1:28 am EST

Every person is innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. We also have the right to refuse to testify when our own testimony would incriminate us. I see all these basic freedoms being employed in this case. How is that a lynch mob?

Candace | 8/27/2007, 4:29 pm EST

Spector has spent the money to give him the best chance of a not guilty verdict. Sheesh, he has paid tens if not hundreds of thousands to witnesses who say they think Clarkson killed herself. Most defendants in murder trials do not have the money for such witnesses. Who in their right mind would say Spector has not had a fair trial?

GoFigure | 8/28/2007, 5:11 am EST

Best witnesses money can buy… Perhaps these “friends” were mistakenly peering at themselves in the mirror when they claim they saw Lana behaving desperately… What’s a friend for if you can’t make some cash and get a little fame off her death? Losers.

samantha | 8/29/2007, 1:31 pm EST

Atty. Riordan seems to be ruffling the puffed-up plume of Judge Fidler.
It’s about time the prejudiced Fidler is called on the carpet.

antidolt | 8/30/2007, 5:03 pm EST

I admire Judge Fidler’s unbiased handling of this case. The prosecution too has behaved admirably. Too bad the defense did not have a defendent/witness to put on the stand to testify that he only wanted to shoot women in the head …………..with love.

Harmon | 8/31/2007, 3:50 am EST

It’s unrealistic to think Spector was able to shove a gun in Clarkson’s mouth.
He didn’t shoot her; she shot herself as the evidence shows.

antidolt | 8/31/2007, 2:58 pm EST

Credible evidence shows that Spector forced the gun into Ms. Clarkson’s mouth. I say Spector is guilty!!!!! I pray the jurors concur and that justice is served by Mr. Spector incarceration, hopefully, for the remainder of his life.

Hannah Seegar | 9/6/2007, 9:44 pm EST

Court TV has a huge defense bias in this trial and I wish someone would investigate WHY. Look into this, Rolling Stone. There’s someting to it.

allforjustice | 9/11/2007, 8:22 pm EST

Was the jury privy to the police report? In the original report he said that it “was an accident”. That admission, the drivers testimony,his history of violence against women by flashing a gun in their faces,the fact that the police saw him upstairs wandering around on their arrival, the fact that he tried to clean up, all factual, spells guilty to me!

wiggydo | 9/12/2007, 9:54 am EST

It sounds like another O.J. storyto me. If I didn’t do it you better beleive I would take the stand to clear my name. No if’s, ands, or but’s. Just the facts man. The End

Teresa Matthews | 9/13/2007, 12:16 am EST

I would like to think that Phil Spector is innocent but I don’t think she would slam a gun in her mouth with such force as to bruise. She had her purse on her arm. She would have chose another way to take her life if that’s what she decided. If she seem to have so much knowledge about guns then why try to frame him with his own. If anything, she could have used him to further her career.

Kim | 9/13/2007, 6:34 pm EST

“Phil Spector is Innocent and clearly from these blogs we have a LYNCH MOB just like the discredited DUKE RAPE CASE but what happen at the end the 3 boys were innocent and phil sector is also innocent but court tv AKA PROSECUTOR TV is out there LYNCHING and persecuting Phil Spector.”

This isn’t a relevent example at all.The boys involved with the Duke incident did not have such a long history {if any}of questionable behavior as Spector…
Muscians,ex wives hell his own kids hate his guts!
Read Ronnie Spector’s bio of how “charming” a guy old Phil can be for proof.

Kim | 9/13/2007, 6:44 pm EST

K, so Lana had a drug problem…
yeah? this means Phil needed to show her his pistol… because???
If Spector had NO history of games with guns I’d be unconvinced of his being guilty,but there’s way TOO Many woman who dated him that have the same claim {way before Clarkson’s murder } of his crazy threats.Not good enough?
What about his ex wives?
What about the musicians that have Phil/gun stories {again yrs. before this trial}.
I just don’t go it.His home is huge,a first time visitot would have no reason to be exposed {if any time} to a loaded gun.The odds of her being put in the same room where he kept his gun,her playing around with it and in turn killing herself are REALLY SLIM!How convenient for Phil,he enjoys threatening people with loaded guns,and surprise what room does he bring his first time visiter?
Come on people…

Kim | 9/13/2007, 6:49 pm EST

“It sounds like another O.J. storyto me. If I didn’t do it you better beleive I would take the stand to clear my name. No if’s, ands, or but’s. Just the facts man. The End ”

Yep you got that right!
In more ways then one it’s the same story.
I remember reading right in this very mag. during O.J.’s trial about his past habits on how he treats woman…
Very LONG history matter of fact, kind of like…
PHIL!

Kim | 9/13/2007, 6:54 pm EST

“I Joyce Danelen, would know”

Question,as Phil is your “wonderful” friend hope come Mr. wonderful didn’t even bother to call 911 on a person’s dying in his home? His driver was the one who made the phone call.
Oh wait I guess he was in shock,blah,blah,woof,woof…
Things like calling an ambulence can be such a burdon on a genius.

Kim | 9/13/2007, 7:00 pm EST

“It’s unrealistic to think Spector was able to shove a gun in Clarkson’s mouth.
He didn’t shoot her; she shot herself as the evidence shows.”

Wow,you really believe this?
Now I would imagine if one were to blow their brains out themselves after the act the gun would NOT be found so neatly next to the victim’s leg {as was the case here}
Would it not go flying somewhere? or perhaps land behind them,on their lap? It was way to “neat” for what you’re proposing.

Kim | 9/13/2007, 7:04 pm EST

One last thing…
Clarkson’s {supposed} drug habit hurt HERSELF more than anyone.
No one was threatened @ gunpoint on a regular basis like Spector seems to fancy.

Kim | 9/13/2007, 7:14 pm EST

“Phil Spector is a wonderful person and good friend. No way would Phil, hurt anyone. When you are getting the milk for free you do not shoot the amazon cow”

K,I’ll bite…
Because they are a troubled person with a long history of violent acts on their former wives.Because they NEED to dominate through violence,in ANY situation.Whether it be recording an album or “having a drink” with a {hooker,friend} whatever it doesn’t really matter now does it?
I find it hard to believe every woman that passes {to bad the loser can’t get one to like him for him he has to pay them} through his presence was “into” gunplay…

kiki | 9/13/2007, 9:21 pm EST

I have missed part of this trial. Why
would he have used a diaper dunked in
the toilet bowl to wipe her face? The sink was closer to the door. Getting rid of something? Why would she leave fake lashes on the toilet tank? Maybe he wiped them off with the diaper. This whole thing about wiping the face doesn’t set well with me, except that he felt she was a piece of s**t! Why would any person do that if they were innocent?

lizzy16162001@yahoo | 9/15/2007, 11:12 pm EST

EVERYONE GIVE PHIL A BREAK!!HE HS NOT KILLED LANA CLARKSON SHE WAS NOTHING BUT A GOLD DIGGER TAKING AVANTAGE OF PHIL, WHY DID SHE GO HOME WITH HIM?what for?SHE WAS NOT HIS FRIEND?? WAKE UP EVERYONE HE HAS BEEN FRAMED THAT LANA WAS DERANGED METALLY SICK LADY WITH NO PURPOSE IN LIFE. THE ANSWER IS VERY CLEAR HE HAS NOT KILLED HER HE IS TAKING A BAD RAPE FROM EVERYONE AROUND HIM OVER THE YEARS WITH THERE EXAGERATED STORIES OF HIM PULLING GINS ON PEOPLE , GIVE HIM A BREAK OK DO NOT BELEIVE ALL U HEAR FROM OTHERS ,DO WE HAVE ANY PROOF THAT HE PULLED GUNS ON PEOPLE ??? people are just running at the mouth bored with there own lives , and picking on him , leave phil alone he is a good man ,people are taking extreme avantage of him that is not right!!! he desrves all that he has in life he is a great music producer of his time everyone leave him alone and everyone pray that the jury will take the correct decision that he is not guilty!!!!! liz roberts

Kim | 9/16/2007, 10:57 am EST

“HE IS TAKING A BAD RAPE FROM EVERYONE AROUND HIM”

Hopefully he’ll get a bad “rape” in prision,over and over again.

Kim | 9/16/2007, 11:05 am EST

“DO WE HAVE ANY PROOF THAT HE PULLED GUNS ON PEOPLE ??? ”

Umm YES! You must be either uniformed in Spector’s violent history,or too young to know the facts.Start off reading about his ex wife Ronnie Spector’s life with him.Then read about various {unrelated} musicians who worked with him in different time spans and were privy to phil and his guns. Then of course there’s his children’s stories of life with little lord inferior complex…
YOU should know the facts before sounding off. Too many stories with the same scenario {violence} about Phil through the yrs.

What idiots | 9/17/2007, 5:04 pm EST

Spector is so guilty that it is unreasonable to think any other way. What person goes to a stranger’s house and decides… HEY, This is a great place to commit suicide!!!
Everything we know about Spector, including the stories from his own two adopted sons, who told their horror stories long before Spector finally killed someone, show him to be the reckless person he is.

lizzy16162001@yahoo | 9/18/2007, 5:33 pm EST

iam sure he will be found innocent all the lack of evidence surely will find that.phil has been serverly miss judged and abused by others. who are these foolish people taking against phil what for?that is all her say that phil is bad ,people just dont understand his unusal approach in life thats all.highly intelligent people of the world often have the same type of personality that phil has. give him a break people ok let him live!!!!!!!!! everyone leave him alone tell all those gold diggers of the past to leave hime alone.pray for him he needs are prayers at this time. liz roberts

Kim | 9/21/2007, 10:31 am EST

“all.highly intelligent people of the world often have the same type of personality that phil has. give him a break people ok let him live!!!!!!!!! everyone leave him alone tell all those gold diggers of the past to leave hime alone.pray for him he needs are prayers at this time. liz roberts ”

Have you @ least gone through the public school system? You are on here trying to defend Phil and you can’t seem to compose a semi-
literate post.Must either be senile or very young.

BTW I’m sure all “are” prayers are with Phil .Mainly to get some jail time of course.

Kim | 9/22/2007, 11:23 am EST

“tell all those gold diggers of the past to leave hime alone”

Well lizzy Phil killed the last one remember?
Maybe during one of your seances with your ultra hip super elite group of friends
{I.E. the Dr.Seuss Remedial Book Club} you can conjure up her spirit and tell her yourself…

bliz | 10/29/2007, 6:20 pm EST

fuck all yall who think he’s innocent— he DID it!!

bliz | 10/29/2007, 6:24 pm EST

hey, kim and paul… yall are BOTH freakin DUMBASS idiots!!! how in the FUCK did yall come up with SUCH bullshit?? how much is phil payin yall??? LMAO!

margaret | 11/11/2008, 5:02 am EST

i thik it was a game that all went very wrong how many of us have done that before .think about it.

lc | 5/18/2009, 7:02 pm EST

It’s all very sad that a man of his talent could let his life get this much out of control. That said, nobody is immune to the consequences of the crime(s?)he has been convicted of. It just shows what a great country this is…”All are equal under the law”

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